Publishers get extended deadline for government innovation fund
The application deadline for the first round of the federal government’s Regional and Small Publishers Innovation Fund has been extended.
Applications for the scheme – which is ostensibly intended to help smaller publishers adapt to a new digital landscape – now close on August 10, instead of July 27 as originally planned.
The scheme, part of the government’s $60m Regional and Small Publishers Jobs and Innovation Package, also includes a subsidised cadetship program and 60 regional journalism scholarships.
Applicants must be incorporated Australian companies with an annual average turnover of more than $150,000 but less than $30m for the three years prior to lodging the application and “must not be formally affiliated with a political party, union, financial institution, non-government organisation or policy lobby group”.
Details on the grants are available at the ACMA website. ACMA has been contacted by Mumbrella for comment on the reasons behind the extended deadline.
The ACMA is still yet to announce the results of the Regional and Small Publishers Innovation Fund. It has promised results for October, then mid-October, then November, then mid-November, and now its end of November, and they still haven’t completed their job.
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