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Eight mobile ventures win $2.4 million in funding via Knight News Challenge
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Six ventures bring data to the public as winners of Knight News Challenge
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Think mobile: Knight News Challenge funds breakthrough ideas for mobile projects
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Knight News Challenge: Data winners to be unveiled Sept. 20 at Online News Association Conference
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Six media innovation ventures awarded more than $1.37 million as winners of Knight News Challenge on Networks
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Knight News Challenge seeks breakthrough ideas that unlock power of data
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Google Earth publishes community-created maps from Knight-funded Public Lab archive
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Knight News Challenge opens, seeking to accelerate media innovation
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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
Knight Blog
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Pop Up Archive: beta is here!
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Reviewers in Miami to discuss News Challenge on Open Gov semifinalists
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Knight congratulates Behavio; News Challenge winner is now part of Google
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40 ideas advance in News Challenge on Open Gov
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Knight welcomes Carol Coletta as new vice president
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886 applications in News Challenge on Open Gov: What’s next
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Final call for applications on Open Gov: Six things you need to know about Knight News Challenge
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“Great Government” - reinventing the public/private partnership
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Taking audio content from the shelf to the web
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Knight Foundation goes live with new portal for grantees
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Messing with Texas: empowering citizens to push for open government
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What you need to know as #newschallenge deadline nears
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Knight Foundation heads to #SXSW
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Answers to the 7 most common News Challenge questions
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Finding the wild, weird and the like-minded in #newschallenge inspirations
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Getting Wikipedia to the people who need it most
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The next step: leveraging citizen engagement to drive energy into innovation
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Tips for submitting an awesome News Challenge application
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News Challenge on Open Gov: Submit now, not later
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The potential of Open Gov in small to mid-sized cities
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De-mystifying Abayima’s OpenSIMKit
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Unanswered questions about open government
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First steps to Open Gov- getting your ducts in a row
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News Challenge launches with an OpenIDEO twist
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#newschallenge on Open Gov: an opportunity for massive reinvention
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Back to the future of self-governance: the promise of the Open Gov movement
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The end of the beginning: lessons from open government so far
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New digital tools for journalists: 10 to learn
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News Challenge on open gov launches Feb. 12
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#newschallenge: seven issues for the future
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Got trapped #archival audio in need of liberation? Request invite & participate in @PopUpArchive beta http://t.co/XBlz8eWTYp #newschallenge
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Free community accounts on the @scraperwiki beta. A 60 second rundown of what’s changed & why http://t.co/mgMI1LluiM #newschallenge
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#newschallenge winner @witnessorg is in the running for the #webbys! Vote by 4/25 http://t.co/DQe41jDKtw v @thewebbyawards ht @samgregory
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MT @waldojaquith: I'm at @knightfdn today, reviewing #newschallenge applications with whole mess of interesting pp http://t.co/7Pq2x53U2S
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Reviewers gather in Miami to discuss #newschallenge on #opengov semifinalists http://t.co/7Pq2x53U2S v @cksopher @jsb @heychrisbarr
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Congrats to the team from #newschallenge winner @behavio on becoming part of Google http://t.co/Bcv2YHDNFn
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Sign up to test new tools that could help your community next time a #disaster hits http://t.co/BqPtr496uc #newschallenge
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StoriesFrom is nominated for a Webby! Help them rock @TheWebbyAwards http://t.co/oBFXes2yr5 v @tizianoproject #newschallenge #Webbys
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Today is last day for #newschallenge semifinalists to refine projects. Check out 40 ideas to improve #opengov http://t.co/67C2q6DjNr #gov20
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iD map editor for @openstreetmap reaches beta: intros interface improvements http://t.co/cz8G1WASPz via @ericg #mapping #newschallenge
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#newschallenge semifinalists upload 30 second videos, respond to community input on #opengov ideas & more http://t.co/kO7kei3Xrv
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ICYMI 40 ideas advance in #newschallenge on #opengov. Refinement stage runs until 4/5 http://t.co/67C2q6DjNr #gov20
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5 more days in #newschallenge refinement stage. Find out which 40 ideas were named semifinalists http://t.co/kO7kei3Xrv #opengov #gov20
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Some #opengov for your Saturday. Find out which 40 projects were named #newschallenge semifinalists http://t.co/67C2q6DjNr #gov20
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If you're a #newschallenge semifinalist, here's what you need to know for the refinement phase (4/5 deadline) http://t.co/67C2q6DjNr
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Thanks! MT @OpeningGov: Congrats to @knightfdn & its 880 ideas received 4 #newschallenge. 40 semifinalists: http://t.co/wyOGXyGE47 #gov20
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40 semifinalists advance in #newschallenge on #opengov http://t.co/67C2q6DjNr v @cksopher @jsb @heychrisbarr
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Thanks for kind words on #newschallenge on #opengov: "Funding innovation in the new paradigm left & right" http://t.co/5aqyAyHJtu v @Forbes
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Getting psyched to announce #newschallenge semifinalists tomorrow 5pm ET http://t.co/mzNs0koZtR #opengov #gov20
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If you're updating a #newschallenge on #opengov application, do so soon! http://t.co/mzNs0koZtR Semifinalists TBA Fri 5pm v @cksopher @jsb
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#newschallenge reminder: If you're making any changes to proposals, do so soon! http://t.co/mzNs0koZtR Semifinalists announced Fri 5pm ET
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Lots of great feedback on #newschallenge applications. You have until Friday to add your comments/questions http://t.co/A0ULPaGQNa.
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Many gathering thoughts on #newschallenge applications: @AtlanticCities http://t.co/sVhKPGvaSZ @crowdsourcing_ http://t.co/baEmyvw3Eh
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#newschallenge feedback phase runs through March 29: comment, ask questions about ideas on the site http://t.co/mzNs0koZtR #opengov
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Some #newschallenge reading for your Sunday. 800+ ideas to improve how citizens/gov interact. Give feedback, ask Qs http://t.co/A0ULPaGQNa
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Did you submit an application to the #newschallenge on #opengov. Here's what to expect next http://t.co/mzNs0koZtR #gov20
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We're currently in the feedback stage of #newschallenge on #opengov. We hope you'll comment, ask Qs & more http://t.co/mzNs0koZtR
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MT @heychrisbarr: Sneak Peek: The iD Editor for @OpenStreetMap: http://t.co/lNCy6orCdk via @mapbox #newschallenge
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Feedback, refinement & evaluation. Next steps in #newschallenge. A big thanks to all who submitted! http://t.co/mzNs0koZtR #opengov #gov20
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886 applications in the #newschallenge on #opengov. What's next: feedback, refinement & more http://t.co/mzNs0koZtR v @jsb @cksopher
Publications
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Experiments in Media Innovation: A Look at the 2009 Knight News Challenge Winners
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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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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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Media, Information and Communication Contests: An Analysis
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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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Sisters, once tornado victims, create social media for Moore
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This cutting-edge map tool turns anyone into a cartographer
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MapBox launches iD, a fast map editor for OpenStreetMap, enabling better contribution of data
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Watch out, Google: here comes OpenStreetMap
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Texas Tribune scores $1.5 million Knight Foundation grant
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Google just hired The whole team from cool SXSW startup, Behavio
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Le Monde adds MapBox’s open source maps to its new website to highlight where news is happening
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Stick a pin on it
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Some Knight News Challenge semifinalists sound awfully familiar
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ElectNext raises $1.3M to provide contextual political data to news sites
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Does McClatchy ever wish it was the target in the Knight Ridder deal?
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Counting down to the Open Gov News Challenge 2013
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Foundations at SXSW are “Engineering Collisions”
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Press Publish 7: Michael Maness on Knight Foundation’s priorities and how to ensure impact
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Who has an 'inspiration' for how government, citizens can work together?
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What the Knight News Challenge on open government tells us about open government
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Five pieces of advice for new civic hackers
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Open Government: Launching Knight News Challenge 2013
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Amara starts offering crowdsourced subtitles for all of your YouTube videos
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Got a creative cultural idea to make Miami better? The Knight Foundation wants to give you money
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Realtime political fact-checking becomes a reality with WaPo’s ‘Truth Teller’
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PANDA: How the 'data library' for newsrooms saves time
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WaPo launches ‘Truth-Teller’ to fact-check in real time
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Textizen wants to make civic engagement as easy as texting with a (really wonky) friend
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Now recording: Knight funds an app for collecting oral histories
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Winners of Knight Foundation challenge receive $2.4 million for mobile innovation projects
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Winners of the Knight News Challenge: media focus on education, human rights
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Knight News Challenge awards eight grants totaling $2.4 million to mobile innovators
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Is it real? Witness builds an app to verify user-submitted content
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Abayima makes SIM cards into E-readers to combat information blackouts
Featured Projects (3 of 93)
Browse ProjectsBrowse ProjectsPANDA
To help news organizations better use public information by creating PANDA, new software that cleans up and aids in analyzing it.
DocumentCloud Reader Annotations
To engage readers in discussing and crowdsourcing news by allowing them to add their own notes and comments to material collected and displayed by previous Challenge winner DocumentCloud.
Textizen
For a platform that helps governments design surveys and feedback campaigns powered by mobile phones and text messaging
About our Knight News Challenge strategy
The Knight News Challenge accelerates media innovation by funding the best breakthrough ideas in news and information. Winners receive a share of $5 million in funding - and support from Knight’s network of influential peers and advisors to help advance their ideas.Innovators from all industries and countries are invited to participate. Previously run once a year, in 2012 the challenge ran three times, to more closely mirror the pace of innovation. Each round had its own theme.
The News Challenge is part of Knight Foundation’s $100 million plus Media Innovation Initiative, which seeks new ways to meet community information needs in the digital age. Over its first five years, Knight Foundation reviewed more than 12,000 News Challenge applications and funded 76 projects for $27 million.
Winners include leading Internet entrepreneurs, emerging media innovators and legacy newsrooms. DocumentCloud, which helps journalists analyze, annotate and publish original source documents, is being used by more than 200 newsrooms nationwide. Ushahidi has helped map information in crises from Haiti to Japan. hNews, a project by Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee and the Media Standards Trust, allows readers to see the source of information in online articles. It is used by more than 200 newsrooms such as the Associated Press.
What’s your breakthrough innovation? Learn more and apply today.
Find out more about the 2012 News Challenge winners for Networks, Data and Mobile.
Staff
Michael Maness
VP/Journalism and Media Innovation
John Bracken
Dir/Journalism and Media Innovation
Chris Sopher
Journalism Program Associate
