Google awards €20.4 million to media projects in Europe as part of the fourth round of its Digital News Initiative

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Journalism / Catalina Albeanu and Madalina Ciobanu / Dec 13, 2017

Projects from 26 European countries will get the cash. This is the fourth round of the DNI, but the first to have a theme: monetization. —

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