Awards and Prizes

2022–25

Volkswagen Foundation: Artificial Intelligence and the Society of the Future (€1,412,000). Project: Towards Responsible AI in Local Journalism. With Bartosz Wilczek, Antske Fokkens, Natali Helberger, Helle Sjøvaag, Mario Haim, Wouter van Atteveldt. [I was lead applicant, receiving €540,800]

2020–23

Volkswagen Foundation: Freigeist Fellowship, extended funding period (€399,900). Project: Algorithmic News: An Investigation into the Computerisation of Journalistic Work, and Analysis of its Professional, Personal and Societal Consequences. [Principal Investigator]

2019–20

Volkswagen Foundation: Artificial Intelligence and the Society of the Future (€137,300). Project: Value-sensitive AI for Augmenting Local Journalism. [Principal Investigator]

2019

NYU-LMU Research Cooperation Programme (€23,800). Project: Research Project & Workshop on Automated News [Co-Investigator with Meredith Broussard]

2015–20

Volkswagen Foundation: Freigeist Fellowship, initial funding period (€492,600). Project: Algorithmic News: An Investigation into the Computerisation of Journalistic Work, and Analysis of its Professional, Personal and Societal Consequences. [Principal Investigator]

2011–16

Erasmus Mundus Action 1 Grant (worth over €3 million) for the collaborative delivery of an Erasmus Mundus Master’s programme, in collaboration with University of Amsterdam, University of Aarhus, Swansea University, University of Hamburg, Danish School of Media and Journalism, University of California (Berkeley), University of Technology Sydney, and Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

2009

European Commission Erasmus Mundus Action 3 Scholarship (€13,000) to fund 3-month teaching and research visit to University of California, Berkeley

2008–11

European Commission Erasmus Mundus Action 3 Grant (€156,000) for research and teaching collaboration, in partnership with University of Amsterdam, University of Aarhus, Swansea University, University of Hamburg, Danish School of Media and Journalism, University of California (Berkeley), University of Technology Sydney, and Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

2003–06

Grants from French Ministry of Agriculture (£23,000) to fund City University students’ participation in collaborative publishing projects with Institut Pratique de Journalisme, Paris