With $5.1 million from Knight Foundation
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MIAMI (May 17, 2009) — Nine projects that use crowdsourcing, mobile technology and digital investigative journalism to bring news and information to communities in new ways have been named winners of the 2009 Knight News Challenge.
“The future of news is being tested, strengthened and advanced everyday by News Challenge experiments and the innovators behind them,” said Alberto Ibargüen, Knight Foundation president and CEO.
The winners make up the third round of the five-year, $25 million News Challenge, an international contest to fund digital news experiments that transform community life.
