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Media Innovation Challenge

2011 Knight News Challenge Winners

Featured Projects (3 of 74)

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NowSpots

To develop open-source software allowing "real-time advertising" that can be updated at any time by local business using social media

Front Porch Forum

To create open-source software for neighborhood news

Printcasting

To enable individuals to create narrowly targeted, local niche publications with local advertising

News & Updates

News Releases

Knight Blog

- 7/20/2011
- Blog Entry
Using tech to connect, and keep us human
- 7/15/2011
- Blog Entry
Online stories of courage draw Juarez residents outdoors
- 6/30/2011
- Blog Entry
Crowdsourcing in a crisis: mapping radiation levels in Japan
- 6/29/2011
- Blog Entry
A rock in one hand, cell phone in the other: Crowdsourcing crisis info in the Middle East
- 6/27/2011
- Blog Entry
Congratulations to this year's winners of the Civic Media Conference Collaboration Contest!
- 6/24/2011
- Blog Entry
Civic media mobilization: putting down the screens, and putting on a T-shirt
- 6/24/2011
- Blog Entry
Civic fictions – the opportunities and limits of online personas
- 6/22/2011
- Blog Entry
Announcing the 2011 Knight News Challenge Winners
- 6/22/2011
- Blog Entry
Strengthening community information experiments at MIT's Center for Civic Media
- 6/20/2011
- Blog Entry
Learning from Experimentation: An assessment of early News Challenge Winners
- 6/9/2011
- Blog Entry
News Challenge Success Story Finds a Home
- 6/1/2011
- Blog Entry
Media innovation projects: Legal structure matters
- 5/9/2011
- Blog Entry
- - Journalism Innovation
Getting Local: Pondering the Future of News Engagement
- 4/18/2011
- Blog Entry
- - Evaluation
Insights on Innovation: Findings from the News Challenge coming soon
- 4/1/2011
- Blog Entry
- - Journalism Innovation
Knight News Challenge Update
- 3/22/2011
- Blog Entry
- - Journalism Innovation
Knight News Challenge Envelopes in the Mail
- 2/24/2011
- Blog Entry
News challenge update: Reading second round proposals, finding trends
- 2/11/2011
- Blog Entry
Update on the second round of the Knight News Challenge
- 1/28/2011
- Blog Entry
Confusing declinations and other News Challenge email issues
- 1/7/2011
- Blog Entry
Check your in-box: News Challenge decisions coming soon
- 12/3/2010
- Blog Entry
Maria Thomas on Her Lens for Reading the News Challenge Applications
- 12/3/2010
- Blog Entry
And Now the Fun Begins
- 12/1/2010
- Blog Entry
News Challenge Step By Step Application Guide, With Screenshots
- 12/1/2010
- Blog Entry
News Challenge Step by Step Guide to Editing Your Application
- 11/30/2010
- Blog Entry
News Challenge Winner: Don't Let a Busy Life Stop You From Applying
- 11/30/2010
- Blog Entry
Tick-tock: Knight News Challenge deadline approaches and we answers some FAQs
- 11/27/2010
- Blog Entry
Knight News Challenge 101: What Happens on Dec. 2?
- 11/24/2010
- Blog Entry
Knight News Challenge 101: Invention and Innovation
- 11/23/2010
- Blog Entry
Knight News Challenge 101: Why Mobile?
- 11/23/2010
- Blog Entry
Knight News Challenge 101: Feedback matters!

Twitter

- 7/26/2011
- Twitter
Role of philanthropy in news, info & media. RT @FSGtweets: Making Sense of the Future of #News: http://ow.ly/5NKXM #strategiceval
- 7/26/2011
- Twitter
@NEAarts Art Works Podcast: Creative Placemaking in #Miami w @knightarts @mialightproject @SweatRecords @omiami http://bit.ly/pFYjZb
- 7/26/2011
- Twitter
RT @takingitglobal: @KnightFdn @TakingITGlobal & @GlobalYouth launch initiative to strengthen Youth Movements! http://bit.ly/youthm
- 7/25/2011
- Twitter
RT @jczamora: Many thanks to @reifman @dkobia @pilhofer @Digidave for participating in @knightfdn’s panel at #AAN2011
- 7/25/2011
- Twitter
@MercNews: We need to embrace experiments -the riskier, the better; Globaloria platform shows promise in #SiliconValley http://t.co/YM5wJKt
- 7/25/2011
- Twitter
RT @NiemanLab: How the @TexasTribune is generating journalism — and revenue — with events http://nie.mn/nJelOy
- 7/23/2011
- Twitter
Glimpse some key insights & vote for ideas emerging at the Frontiers of Democracy conference in #Boston http://bit.ly/pTdQdg #demfront
- 7/23/2011
- Twitter
RT @dthorman: Clear need for space to allow cross sector collaboration especially btwn techies & civic & cmty engagement folks #demfront
- 7/22/2011
- Twitter
RT @dansinker: Thrilled to announce I'll be joining Mozilla to head up the Knight-Mozilla News Partnership: http://nie.mn/qA0qCr #mojo
- 7/22/2011
- Twitter
@knightfdn @NEAarts Arts Journalism Challenge is taking questions #livechat http://t.co/uemHCAx
- 7/22/2011
- Twitter
#Innovations in Civic Practice, Theory and Education: #demfront conference @TuftsUniversity http://t.co/u3LhN6w
- 7/21/2011
- Twitter
#TheAtlantic asks: Could South Florida be getting...hip? Interview with #sweatrecords Lolo Reskin mentiones #knightfdn http://bit.ly/oVQFcP
- 7/21/2011
- Twitter
Games for engagement: #HuffPo says "put down your pencils and play" - interactive games strengthen youth education http://bit.ly/r6KTBr
- 7/21/2011
- Twitter
Paula Ellis: "failure" as a term has no applicability for donors solving complex probs http://kng.ht/p3rkx0 #philanthropy #knightfdn #HuffPo
- 7/20/2011
- Twitter
@prisonblog: Using technology to connect, and keep us human http://kng.ht/pkM7AZ #civicmedia
- 7/19/2011
- Twitter
RT @jsb: RT @higherawesome Calling All Awesome Detroiters 4 experiment in community-driven microgranting http://bit.ly/ny9meo #newschallenge
- 7/19/2011
- Twitter
RT @newscloud: Why wait for Facebook to partner w/you? Build an app on free, open src @knightfdn funded @NewsCloud now newscloud.net/krmYvM
- 7/18/2011
- Twitter
Online game, @communityplanit, brings citizens together for interactive community planning http://kng.ht/pc1EpW #CommunityPlanIt
- 7/15/2011
- Twitter
RT @bthewirz: Deadline for start-up scholarships to @DEMO today http://t.co/nql1CsE (for extensions, talk w/ @DEMO @Neal_Silverman) #democon
- 7/15/2011
- Twitter
Interesting read(s) from @TheEconomist on the #futureofnews & #information featuring many amazing @knightfdn grantees. http://kng.ht/qe3Rm8
- 7/15/2011
- Twitter
RT @MichiganCorps: A short documentary film featuring our @KivaDetroit launch! http://t.co/UnmXbwi @Kiva @accion_usa @knightfdn
- 7/15/2011
- Twitter
Link Fix: Online stories of courage draw #Juarez residents outdoors http://kng.ht/o9hbMO #civicmedia #pressfreedom h/t @csik
- 7/15/2011
- Twitter
Yes indeed. Thanks! RT @csik: @jczamora @knightfdn I think the correct link is http://bit.ly/prtYMr
- 7/15/2011
- Twitter
Online stories of courage draw #Juarez residents outdoors http://kng.ht/pJkqZT #civicmedia #pressfreedom
- 7/15/2011
- Twitter
RT @jczamora: Those in @knightfdn's network & beyond who want @Google + for their org http://www.goo.gl/KR7z5 deadline is 7/15 v/@bthewirz
- 7/14/2011
- Twitter
Deliberative Democracy to help #Akron residents build community engagement http://kng.ht/oTLsew
- 7/13/2011
- Twitter
New initiative promotes digital literacy through game design in #SiliconValley http://kng.ht/nIzTw7
- 7/13/2011
- Twitter
RT @civicMIT: More video from our #CivicMedia conference: Michael Maness announces the collaboration contest winners http://cot.ag/pfA92T
- 7/13/2011
- Twitter
Tweeps data viz with @Pewinternet data. RT @CaseFoundation: Fascinating infographic. RT @SteveCase: Meet the Tweeters http://bit.ly/o38MpL
- 7/13/2011
- Twitter
#News proj. #Oklahoma Watch put spotlight on high female incarceration rate - and helped drive policy change http://t.co/b61Hg4N #infoneeds

Publications

- 6/22/2011
- Publication
Center for Future Civic Media Assessment Report
- 6/17/2011
- Publication
An Interim Review of the Knight News Challenge
- 5/31/2011
- Publication
Crossroads Charlotte
- 4/30/2011
- Publication
News21 Initiative
- 4/21/2011
- Publication
- - Evaluation
General Assessment Resources & Tools
- 4/20/2011
- Publication
International Center for Journalists
- 9/1/2010
- Publication
Drinking from The Firehoses at Future of News and Civic Media Conference 3.0
- 6/1/2010
- Publication
Knight News Challenge: Casting the Net Wide for Innovation
- 1/1/2010
- Publication
Public Insight Network (American Public Media)
- 5/1/2009
- Publication
Community Media and Grant Makers Toolkit

In The News

- 6/28/2011
- In The News
Google Helps Journalists Make Data More Informative, And Beautiful
- 4/25/2011
- In The News
- - Non-Profit News
The newsonomics of a single investigative story
- 4/13/2011
- In The News
World Press Freedom Day 2011 Steering Committee Announces Event Sponsors
- 3/15/2011
- In The News
Traffic-Mapping Tech Paints Picture of Post-Quake Japan
- 3/13/2011
- In The News
When Unrest Stirs, Bloggers Are Already in Place

About our Knight News Challenge strategy

The Knight News Challenge is a media innovation contest that aims to advance the future of news by funding new ways to digitally inform communities. The News Challenge awards as much as $5 million a year for innovative ideas that develop platforms, tools and services to inform and transform community news, conversations and information distribution and visualization. Contest opens seasonally. Anyone, anywhere in the world can apply.

About our Journalism & Media Strategy

Knight Foundation aims to help sustain democracy by leading journalism to its best possible future in the 21st century.

Media Innovation: Since 2007, Knight has invested more than $100 million in new technologies and techniques, including in more than 200 community news and information experiments. Its media innovation portfolio seeks to improve public media, discover new platforms for investigative reporting, increase digital and media literacy, promote universal broadband access and support a free and open Web.

Journalistic Excellence: As the nation’s leading journalism funder, Knight funding has supported training for more than 100,000 journalists worldwide, and has helped to transform journalism education with the college-level Carnegie-Knight Initiative, major fellowship programs at Stanford, Michigan and Harvard and 22 Knight Chairs with endowments of more than $50 million.

Freedom of Expression: The foundation helps safeguard the rights of journalists worldwide and supports public information campaigns about the value of freedom of information and open government.

The foundation has invested more than $454 million in more than 1,000 journalism and media grants since 1950.