Nigerian Magazine, The Republic Journal, announced on their Instagram that they received $250,000 in grant funding from the JournalismAI Innovation Challenge! Through this funding, The Republic hopes to bridge the language barrier by helping newsrooms reach audiences with credible information in their indigenous languages.

A couple of months ago, The Republic also received $500,000 in grants from The Mellon Foundation and The Open Society Foundations. These grants are meant to help West African universities, literary culture, and beyond with mainstreaming African ideas through the development of an Open Access Network. See the full story about those grants here.

The Republic wants to “create knowledge” from all sorts of topics ranging from culture and society to feminism and gender to politics and security, and more. With the help of grants from places like the JournalismAI Innovation Challenge, they are able to bring awareness to these important topics to people who don’t have the access to learn about it.

The JournalismAI Innovation Challenge is supported by the Google News Initiative. They enable “publishers to experiment, implement and share best practices of AI technologies.” Through the experimentation of new formats of information sharing in hopes of enhancing journalistic systems.

The Republic connects communities in hopes of empowering them to learn about different perspectives and what can be gained from them. If you want to read more about The Republic and see what else they have been posting about go to their website.

Congratulations to The Republic Journal on yet another grant for their extraordinary work!