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  • Knight News Challenge Competition Offers up to $5 million for Community News Innovation

    Submitted by Robertson Adams on Tue, 09/01/2009 - 10:00
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    Contest now allows private applications -- deadline is Oct. 15

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    MIAMI (Sept. 1, 2009) – The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is accepting applications for the 2010 Knight News Challenge, a contest awarding as much as $5 million for innovative ideas using digital experiments to transform community news. The deadline for applications is Oct. 15.

    Do you have a big idea for informing and inspiring a geographic community? Does it include innovative use of new digital tools or processes such as social media, mash-ups or wikis? How about new ways to exchange information via hand-held devices like cell phones? Knight Foundation wants to know. “You invent it. We fund it!” is the 2010 contest slogan.

  • News Experiments to Help Transform Community Life

    Submitted by admin on Wed, 06/17/2009 - 14:00
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    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.

  • 2009 Knight News Challenge Finalists

    Submitted by admin on Wed, 06/17/2009 - 13:59
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    The following projects were finalists in the 2009 Knight News Challenge. If you are a funder interested in supporting any of these projects, please contact Jose Zamora at zamora@knightfoundation.org.

  • Real winners with really great ideas: Adrian Holovaty, Everyblock

    Submitted by admin on Thu, 10/02/2008 - 14:52
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    This is Heidi Miller from the Knight News Challenge, spreading the word about open source development and communication innovation. And we're talking with past KNC winners to explore how they succeeded in getting funding for their great ideas. Today's new idea is from Adrian Holovaty, founder of Everyblock.

  • Real winners with really great ideas: David Sasaki, Rising Voices

    Submitted by admin on Mon, 09/22/2008 - 14:51
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    Hi, guys, this is Heidi Miller with the Knight News Challenge, spreading the word about open source development and communication innovation. And we’re speaking with past Knight News Challenge winners to explore how they succeeded in getting funding for their great ideas. Today’s new idea is from David Sasaki, founder of Rising Voices.

  • Real winners with really great ideas: David Cohn, Spot.us

    Submitted by admin on Thu, 09/11/2008 - 13:13
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    David Cohn interview, founder of Spot.us

    Heidi Miller of the Knight News Challenge recently interviewed past Knight News Challenge winner, David Cohn, to explore how he succeeded in getting funding for his great idea for digital communication innovation.

  • Worldwide Contest Reopens With $5 Million for Digital Media Experiments to Innovate Journalism

    Submitted by admin on Tue, 09/02/2008 - 14:00
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    Knight Foundation's News Challenge Contest Now Offers Online Assistance for Applicants; November 1 is Deadline.

    MIAMI – The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has launched the third year of the Knight News Challenge, a contest awarding as much as $5 million for innovative ideas using digital experiments to transform community news and information exchange. The deadline for applications is Nov. 1, 2008.

  • Knight News Challenge 2008 Winners Announced at E&P/Mediaweek Interactive Media Conference

    Submitted by admin on Wed, 05/14/2008 - 15:00
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    Award recipients include World Wide Web Inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee

    LAS VEGAS — Sixteen ideas to fund innovative digital projects around the world were awarded $5.5 million dollars today from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web, accepted one of the awards for a project that will create a technology to give users more information about the origins and sourcing of digital content.

    Berners-Lee's project is a partnership between the Media Standards Trust and the UK-based Web Science Research Initiative, of which he is a director.

  • Knight News Challenge First-Year Winners Announced

    Submitted by admin on Wed, 05/23/2007 - 00:00
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    MIAMI — MIT, MTV, top young computer programmers and bloggers are among the 25 first-year winners of the Knight News Challenge, announced today at the Editor & Publisher/Mediaweek Interactive Media Conference and Trade Show in Miami.

  • First-Year News Challenge Winners Receive $12 Million in Grants

    Submitted by admin on Wed, 05/23/2007 - 00:00
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    2007 Winners: