Knight News Challenge
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To increase transparency by creating a platform that helps verify information emerging from mobile phones and the social web.
NowSpots
To develop open-source software allowing "real-time advertising" that can be updated at any time by local business using social media
Openblock Rural
To increase access to local information and strengthen rural newspapers technical expertise by using the OpenBlock system to aggregate and publish local, municipal data.
News & Updates
News Releases
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El concurso de la Knight Foundation para subvencionar innovaciones en los medios de difusión anuncia los ganadores del 2011
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Knight Foundation media innovation contest announces 2011 winners
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Knight Foundation expands support for civic media at MIT
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Serbia confronts past, prosecutes war criminals using new digital archive
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NewsCloud to make Facebook-connected communities easy
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Knight Survey: Nearly Half of Federal Agencies Lag in Responding to FOIA Information Requests
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Open-Source Publishing Platform to be Developed by The Texas Tribune and The Bay Citizen
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Knight News Innovation Laboratory launches at Northwestern University
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Knight Foundation Supports Campaign for Justice when Journalists are Slain
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Impunity Project Review Shows Headway in Justice For Slain Latin American Journalists
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El Proyecto Contra la Impunidad se ha avanzado en la búsqueda de justicia para los periodistas asesinados en América Latina
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Premier Website for International Journalists Offers New Features and Chinese-language Service
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World Press Freedom Day to Be Celebrated In U.S., with Knight Funding
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Rutgers Breaks Ground on John S. and James L. Knight Early Learning Research Academy in Camden
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Knight Foundation Media Innovation Contest Opens For Entries
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Knight Foundation Announces $2 Million Grant from Google
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Networked Journalism Project Expands To Include Partnerships in Four New Cities
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5th Knight News Challenge To Open For Entries Oct. 25
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New Knight Grant Accelerates Digital Transformation Of Investigative Reporting Leader, Center for Public Integrity
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Student Reporters Team with Investigative Journalists on National Investigation of Transportation Safety
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Journalism Online Brings e-Commerce Platform to Nonprofit News Publishers
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International Multimedia Institute Launches in India
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Knight Foundation Announces Winners of 2010 News Challenge
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New Knight International Fellows to Increase Accountability and Transparency in the Developing World
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Brazilian Investigative Reporter and Indonesian Radio Pioneer Win Knight International Journalism Awards
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Digital Publisher New CEO of Investigative News Network
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Newest Knight Chair Focuses on Innovation in Digital Advertising
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Shorty Awards Announce Twitter Finalists and Category Sponsors
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Top Twitter Users to be Honored by Shorty Awards and Knight Foundation
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New Knight International Fellows Focus on Digital Media Technology
Knight Blog
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Ushahidi helps bring crowdsourcing technology to 132 countries worldwide
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4 insights and 4 lessons: Knight News Challenge
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Democratizing information with grassroots mapping
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Using tech to connect, and keep us human
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Online stories of courage draw Juarez residents outdoors
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Crowdsourcing in a crisis: mapping radiation levels in Japan
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A rock in one hand, cell phone in the other: Crowdsourcing crisis info in the Middle East
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Congratulations to this year's winners of the Civic Media Conference Collaboration Contest!
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Civic media mobilization: putting down the screens, and putting on a T-shirt
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Civic fictions – the opportunities and limits of online personas
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Announcing the 2011 Knight News Challenge Winners
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Strengthening community information experiments at MIT's Center for Civic Media
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Learning from Experimentation: An assessment of early News Challenge Winners
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News Challenge Success Story Finds a Home
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Media innovation projects: Legal structure matters
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Getting Local: Pondering the Future of News Engagement
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Insights on Innovation: Findings from the News Challenge coming soon
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Knight News Challenge Update
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Knight News Challenge Envelopes in the Mail
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News challenge update: Reading second round proposals, finding trends
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Update on the second round of the Knight News Challenge
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Confusing declinations and other News Challenge email issues
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Check your in-box: News Challenge decisions coming soon
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Maria Thomas on Her Lens for Reading the News Challenge Applications
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And Now the Fun Begins
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News Challenge Step By Step Application Guide, With Screenshots
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News Challenge Step by Step Guide to Editing Your Application
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News Challenge Winner: Don't Let a Busy Life Stop You From Applying
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Tick-tock: Knight News Challenge deadline approaches and we answers some FAQs
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Knight News Challenge 101: What Happens on Dec. 2?
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RT @EricNewton1: #Localjournalism suffers another blow as the @OaklandTribune shuts down http://t.co/a1fx4CE #infoneeds
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@EricNewton1: #Localjournalism suffers another blow as the @OaklandTribune shuts down http://t.co/a1fx4CE
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RT @knightakron: Community engagement workshop helps #Akron love the city, create soul in the community http://t.co/9Isw9Ir
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@ushahidi blogs live from the .ke Evaluation Launch http://t.co/bULaEma #ushmeet
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MT @dcharliebrown: @phillyinquirer article on our @BMEChallenge work with @knightfdn. Engaging comment thread http://t.co/c95cMCK
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RT @jczamora: More Legal Resources for Online Journalists http://t.co/wqTG4lX c. @citmedialaw
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RT @jczamora: Just in case you missed it - Legal Resources for Social Entrepreneurs - http://t.co/DjDIkVe c. @LexMundi http://t.co/muR1RZy
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Strengthening #communities is going to take reform, including stronger #publicmedia and universal broadband http://t.co/GVaTyXz
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People want more government #transparency, traditional media less likely to sue to get it, say @NFOIC & @MediaLawMLRC http://t.co/IsyrBdk
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RT @SSIReview: Read what @knightfdn CEO @ibarguen has to say about social enterprises, journalism, philanthropy + http://ow.ly/6aFxy #socent
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RT @craigslist_fndn: Creativity + passion at ystrdy's @knightakron meeting. Congrats to Cleaning Up Akron Is A Slam Dunk on $500 instagrant
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RT @JustGregPoet: RT @PhillyThom: Know a Black man in #Philly or #Detroit that is positive? Have him tell his story on BMEChallenge.org
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RT @JoelWrightatIA: @knightfdn points towards the effectiveness of online community portals: http://t.co/ff7w6z2 @InstantAtlas @COF_
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RT @ASCCharlotte: We're excited to announce the launch of @power2give with a significant investment from the @knightfdn! http://t.co/TVHj17w
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RT @EricNewton1: Updated Creed Black memorial, who led @knightfdn to journalism funder leadership. Tributes below story. http://t.co/qAktWlg
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#Northeastern students team up with local news orgs on in-depth investigations http://t.co/pexDgz3 #communitymedia @WatchdogNE @NewsfromNU
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RT @jczamora: 5 Innovative #Journalism Proposals From #MozNewsLab’s http://t.co/q5fiser (via @10000Words) @knightmozilla @knightfdn #mojo
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RT @jsb: I'm not a big #ff guy, but these @knightfdn colleagues are worth following: @dthorman @kfjuan @rsjaitly FIX: @michaelmaness
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@taramurtha - sent you an email to see how we can help
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RT @jczamora: Don't miss @knightfdn's #Arts #Journalism Challnge deadline @artsjournalism.org
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Check out artist Cavin Jones' story of how he's inspiring others in his community. http://t.co/xaoDWmW #BMEchallenge #philly
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Tomrw - Deadline for the Comm. Arts #Journalism Challnge @artsjournalism.org #Philly #Detroit #Miami Macon #SanJose StPaul Charlotte Akron
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@dthorman: @jumoconnect and @GOOD join forces, great potential, combines two visionaries – Ben Goldhirsh & @chrishughes http://t.co/hAy2PHq
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@ibarguen: Former @Knightfdn Pres. Creed Black (1925-2011) was a courageous #journalist, leader, visionary & friend http://t.co/R4d1Xhp
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12 videos about the importance of local information needs http://t.co/DOoefHW #civicengagement
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@EricNewton1: We the people are fat - from consuming too much comfort news. Feels good, but not good for u http://t.co/AKdSRMi @MiamiHerald
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Just announced - JUDGING PANEL for Apps for Communities contest by @fcc and @knightfdn http://t.co/NTiR1Kx @communityapps Apps due Aug.31
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One week left to turn in applications for Knight/NEA Comm Arts #Journalism Challenge. 8 cities eligible. artsjournalism.org #artsjourn
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@DAFrizzG: What if we paid more attn to black men & boys who inspire and engage communities?http://t.co/9gT6TS7 #BMEChallenge #Philadelphia
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Why does arts journalism matter? http://t.co/AzBesfi @NEAarts and @knightfdn #artsjourn
Publications
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Center for Future Civic Media Assessment Report
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An Interim Review of the Knight News Challenge
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Crossroads Charlotte
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News21 Initiative
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General Assessment Resources & Tools
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International Center for Journalists
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Drinking from The Firehoses at Future of News and Civic Media Conference 3.0
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Knight News Challenge: Casting the Net Wide for Innovation
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Public Insight Network (American Public Media)
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Community Media and Grant Makers Toolkit
In The News
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How to create your own aerial map
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Google Helps Journalists Make Data More Informative, And Beautiful
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The newsonomics of a single investigative story
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World Press Freedom Day 2011 Steering Committee Announces Event Sponsors
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Traffic-Mapping Tech Paints Picture of Post-Quake Japan
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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.