On Friday, this year’s Knight News Challenge review team met in Miami to review the finalists. The esteemed group spent the entire day in heated discussions, debating the merits of the vetted proposals (this is a different group than the News Challenge screeners that met twice earlier in the contest cycle).

Look for more news on this blog, in the @knightfdn and @knc08 Twitter streams, and on the News Challenge site. Exciting details to come–