We hear a lot that local news is dying. However, there are local news entrepreneurs in different countries who are experimenting - and succeeding! Come and hear from them as they discuss what works, w...
Madhav Chinnappa
Madhav Chinnappa is currently the fractional VP of Partnerships for Human Native AI as well as leading a thought leadership event series around AI and news for the Thomson Foundation. He has worked at the intersection of news, technology, AI and sustainability globally for more than two decades in both the commercial and public service sectors. His extensive experience with journalism funding and sustainability include launching the DNI Fund, the GNI Innovation Challenge programme and the Journalism Emergency Relief Fund while at Google. He has worked in the news industry since 1994 - first in the launch team of Associated Press Television (APTV), a year in M&A at United News & Media and spent over 9 years at BBC News, latterly as Head of Development & Rights.
Events IJF 2025
A two-way interview between news and tech industry veterans: Jesper Doub, ex-Director of International News Partnerships at FB/Meta, and Madhav Chinnappa, ex-Director of News Ecosystem Development at ...
World News Day is a global campaign that unites journalists, newsrooms and news audiences around the globe to share the stories that show the power of trustworthy journalism to make a difference to ci...
World News Day: share your stories, spotlight your impact, celebrate your journalism
In an age of misinformation and distrust of the media, World News Day brings together newsrooms from around the world for a single, critical mission: to highlight the power of journalism to effect dee...
What is it like to have journalism change your life? On 3 May 2018, the Canadian Journalism Foundation took a moment to pause and celebrate the good and important work that journalism does in the wor...
In March, Google launched the Google News Initiative (GNI), their effort to help journalism thrive in the digital age. The GNI signifies a major milestone in Google’s 15-year commitment to the news...
Media commentators are calling for technology companies to be nationalized, boycotted, and even shut down, claiming they are the ruination of society. Really? Are we worse off or better off with the n...
Google Digital News Initiative: promoting innovation and high quality in digital journalism
The Digital News Initiative (DNI) is a partnership between Google and news publishers in Europe to support high quality journalism through technology, to encourage a more sustainable news ecosystem,...
Journalism and Silicon Valley: the changing relationship between the news industry and social platforms. There is no more intriguing or important commercial relationship in journalism today than th...
The relationship between Google and news publishers is ambiguous. Some publishers, as witnessed by the closure request of GoogleNews in Spain, continue to think of Google as a content thief. But the...
Google News Masterclass - all you wanted to know about Google News in less than 1 hour. Come hear from Laurence Foucault and Madhav Chinnappa, the product specialist and head of partnerships respecti...
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