Knight News Challenge Winners
Center for Future Civic MediaTo create the Center for Future Civic Media, a leadership project designed to encourage community news experiments and new technologies and practices.... Chris CsikszentmihályiMitchel ResnickHenry Jenkins
$5,000,000
(2007 award)EveryBlockTo create, test and release open-source software that links databases to allow citizens of a large city to learn (and act on) civic information about their neighborhood or block. ... Adrian Holovaty
$1,100,000
(2007 award)Open-Source Community NewsTo create an open-source version of VillageSoup’s successful community news software, combining professional journalism, blogs, citizen journalism, online advertising and “reverse publishing” from online to print.... Richard Anderson
$885,000
(2007 award)Mobile Youth Journalism (08 Election)MTV will cover the 2008 presidential election with a Knight Mobile Youth Journalist in every state and the District of Columbia who will create video news reports specifically for distribution on cell phones. The weekly reports will be voted on by the public, ... Ian Rowe
$700,000
(2007 award)Digital News Academic ProgramTo create an academic program blending computer science and journalism, designed to fill a staffing void at many digital news sites. By offering scholarships to Medill’s graduate journalism program to people with education and/or expertise in computer progra... Rich Gordon
$639,000
(2007 award)Taking Radio 'Out of the Box'To improve a city’s awareness of its arts and culture by bringing more diverse voices to WNYC public radio using a new type of interactive web site. WNYC will use social networking and social engagement tools to “take radio out of the box” and cha... Alex Villari
$600,000
(2007 award)Knight-Kauffman Center (ASU)To support the development of media entrepreneurship and the creation of new digital media products through the establishment of the Knight-Kauffman Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at Arizona State University.... Christopher Callahan
$552,000
(2007 award)Chi-Town Daily NewsThe Chi-Town Daily News will recruit and train a network of 75 citizen journalists – one in each Chicago neighborhood. The journalists will work with editors to produce a professional, comprehensive daily local news report.... Geoff Dougherty
$340,000
(2007 award)Citizen Journalist ResourcesThe Citizen Media Law Project, a joint venture between Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society and the Center for Citizen Media, is creating a set of online resources for citizen journalists. This will include state and federal legal gui... David Ardia
$250,000
(2007 award)NY News GamesGotham Gazette will develop games to inform and engage players about key issues confronting New York City. Gotham Gazette will hold forums on the games’ issues, report on what solutions the players developed and relay those ideas to city officials.... Gail Robinson
$250,000
(2007 award)Playing the NewsPlaying the News is a news simulation environment which lets citizens play through a complex, evolving news story through interaction with the newsmakers.... Nora PaulKathleen Hansen
$250,000
(2007 award)Rising VoicesOver the past two years, Global Voices has introduced readers around the world to the brilliant, funny, insightful and touching voices of bloggers from developing nations. Rising Voices is our new effort to introduce thousands of new developing world bloggers ... Ethan Zuckerman
$244,000
(2007 award)Digital News "Incubators"Create ‘incubators’ at seven academic institutions to foster creative thinking about solutions to digital news problems. The schools are: Michigan State, University of Kansas, Kansas State, Western Kentucky University, Ithaca College, University of Nevada-... Angela Powers, Ann Brill, Diane Lynch, Ardyth Broadrick Sohn, Jane Briggs-Bunting, Kimberly Sultze, Pam McAllister Johnson
$230,000
(2007 award)PlacebloggerTo make it easier for people to find hyperlocal news and information about their city or neighborhood through promotion of “universal geotagging” in blogs.... Lisa Williams
$222,000
(2007 award)Wireless PhiladelphiaTo develop online digital newscasts for Philadelphia’s immigrant community and to distribute them via the new citywide wireless platform.... Todd Wolfson
$150,000
(2007 award)Web JournalismCreate a citizen/professional journalism project using innovative web tools and citizen journalism practices to track Boulder, Colo.’s, implementation of a carbon tax.... Amy GahranAdam Glenn
$90,000
(2007 award)Oakland Jazz Scene GameRe-creating Oakland’s once vibrant jazz and blues club scene as an online video game and virtual world. The game will allow players to experience the club scene as it was in its heyday in the 1940s and 1950s, before it fell victim to redevelopment schemes an... Paul Grabowicz
$60,000
(2007 award)Ideal NewsroomTo plan an “ideal newsroom” for the digital news era and create an online resource for student newspapers and other news organizations looking to bring their facilities up to date with new media trends.... Chris O'Brien
$60,000
(2007 award)Blog: 'Related Items' (Drupal)Blog: About “Related Items,” a module for the community-oriented and open-source content management system, Drupal, which enables people to quickly and easily connect any item (news, idea, group, event) to any other content they consider related. ... Benjamin Melançon
$15,000
(2007 award)Blog on connecting people, content and communityBlog: About giving all individuals a voice within their local and global communities through a centralized, user-maintained news system. The idea currently combines GPS (Global Positioning System) tagging, Internet technology, and community-oriented design to ... Dan Schultz
$15,000
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