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Tiziano 360

To help communities better tell their stories by building an accessible, multimedia storytelling platform.

NowSpots

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

SwiftRiver

To increase transparency by creating a platform that helps verify information emerging from mobile phones and the social web.

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Knight Blog

- 12/13/2011
- Blog Entry
Tools, tips and strategies for making media mobile
- 11/22/2011
- Blog Entry
Finding my people, new tools for journalism at Mozilla Fest
- 11/17/2011
- Blog Entry
How @documentcloud is turning documents into data
- 11/16/2011
- Blog Entry
@Zeega: Allowing people to collaboratively produce, curate and publish multimedia
- 11/15/2011
- Blog Entry
@pandaproject, a newsroom data app that provides a place to store, search and share data
- 11/7/2011
- Blog Entry
Highlights from last week’s Mozilla Festival
- 11/6/2011
- Blog Entry
@michaelmaness and @dansinker: Open source is key to innovation
- 11/5/2011
- Blog Entry
An East London Knight News Challenge Preview
- 8/9/2011
- Blog Entry
Ushahidi helps bring crowdsourcing technology to 132 countries worldwide
- 8/9/2011
- Blog Entry
- - Evaluation
4 insights and 4 lessons: Knight News Challenge
- 8/8/2011
- Blog Entry
Democratizing information with grassroots mapping
- 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

Twitter

- 1/28/2012
- Twitter
RT @matthaggman: Day 1 of One Laptop Per Child at Holmes Elementary in Miami. First OLPC directed project in US. http://t.co/tqdJJP2i
- 1/28/2012
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Via@OLPC: #OLPC and #Knight Foundation launch digital literacy program in Miami's #LibertyCity: http://t.co/LIoRPhIQ
- 1/27/2012
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@Idit @amystarlight @ICFJknight @simonaroberts @lrainie @lbotello @gdetorres @craignewman Thanks the #FF!
- 1/27/2012
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RT @ushahidi: In the San Francisco area? Join us for a community meet-up on Wednesday, February 1st. http://t.co/oZAXgLCX
- 1/27/2012
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How #journalists are using @FrontlineSMS to innovate around the world http://t.co/OEKWEBya via @jczamora #journalism #mobile
- 1/27/2012
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New #Detroit initiative offers fundraising help to budding philanthropists http://t.co/X5li9Pyf @CitizenEffect @Detroit4Detroit
- 1/27/2012
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Erasing the #digitaldivide is "the moral imperative of our generation" says @MiamiSup http://t.co/1KSjncna #education
- 1/27/2012
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RT @ibarguen: Great moment. Kids @ Miami's Holmes grammar school minutes after they each it a laptop http://t.co/KBQC6doJ
- 1/27/2012
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@socialcap Hands-on training for students, teachers & parents are all part of the @knightfdn-funded program http://t.co/2WeOAmoy
- 1/27/2012
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RT @ibarguen: First recess w/laptops at Holmes elementary in Miami. Pure intuition. Kids are ok digital @olpt http://t.co/xbB616R5
- 1/27/2012
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.@Living_Cities CEO @benhecht on the promise of #CivicTech & why it has potential to be a game-changer for #cities http://t.co/Mtuh2OgB
- 1/27/2012
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“How can you pretend you’re educating people to live in the 21st century if you’re not making them smart digitally?” http://t.co/1KSjncna
- 1/27/2012
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Mobile donors are young, diverse & digital http://t.co/pWerrtU3 #infographic #philanthropy via @kate4good
- 1/27/2012
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MT @MiamiSup: Distributing 600 laptops to students at Holmes Elementary. Thanks Knight Foundation/One Laptop Per Child! http://t.co/qNYF64mY
- 1/27/2012
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.@OLPC just distributed 500+ laptops to #Miami elementary students in Liberty City, launching digital literacy efforts http://t.co/pIQewjVT
- 1/27/2012
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This morning @knightfdn is at Holmes Elementary in Miami for an exciting event with @OLPC. Stay tuned for updates!
- 1/26/2012
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RT @rsjaitly: Excited to be at @Detroit4Detroit launch! cc @CitizenEffect
- 1/26/2012
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Innovators in civic tech @nickgrossman @pahlkadot @rachelsterne @nsjacob provide insight on increasing engagement http://t.co/dooMbLuB
- 1/26/2012
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@traceylross Thanks for allowing us to share the post with our network.
- 1/26/2012
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#Wichita groups receive @knightfdn support to develop region’s “quality of talent, place & opportunity" http://t.co/UWZfHPb6 #philanthropy
- 1/26/2012
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RT @Admiral_Center: Congratulations to 20 winners of BME Leadership Award @bmechallenge, created to honor black male community leaders!
- 1/26/2012
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Real time analysis of campaign ads will help inform voters before they head to polls http://t.co/EVZ3MZ1z
- 1/26/2012
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Forum provides 4 ideas for how tech can increase civic engagement http://t.co/dooMbLuB via @Living_Cities @traceylross
- 1/26/2012
- Twitter
.@wesmediaproject to release 1st 2012 analysis of campaign ads http://t.co/EVZ3MZ1z , w/ support from @knightfdn @rockBrosfund
- 1/26/2012
- Twitter
How @Zeega & its partners will provide innovative local storytelling for public media http://t.co/MO5cAP16 #journalism
- 1/26/2012
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RT @andysherry: Contents Magazine says Project Argo's free WordPress news tools are ready for prime time http://t.co/ALflE0tz #journalism
- 1/26/2012
- Twitter
Entrepreneurial Spirit Awaits Its Moment in the Middle East, @nytimes article feat @Joi http://t.co/cdvnlSkW via @ibarguen
- 1/26/2012
- Twitter
What’s your best idea for the #arts in South Florida? Next round of @knightarts Challenge launches Feb. 21 http://t.co/FbJXN66Q
- 1/26/2012
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Engaging new audiences in the #arts: great reactions from first-time #opera goers http://t.co/Aw22Ck5N via @theobserver
- 1/26/2012
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@nicolepennell We're so glad! What was your favorite thing about @OperaCarolina's performance?

Publications

- 6/22/2011
- Publication
- - Evaluation
Center for Future Civic Media Assessment Report
- 6/17/2011
- Publication
- - Evaluation
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
- 1/20/2010
- Publication
Media, Information and Communication Contests: An Analysis
- 1/1/2010
- Publication
Public Insight Network (American Public Media)
- 5/1/2009
- Publication
Community Media and Grant Makers Toolkit

In The News

- 10/17/2011
- In The News
New-media tools can bolster traditional journalism
- 10/14/2011
- In The News
Knight News Challenge to run three times a year
- 8/7/2011
- In The News
How to create your own aerial map
- 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 tools to inform and transform community news, conversations and information distribution and visualization. The contest will be held three times in 2012, starting in the spring. Anyone, anywhere in the world can apply. Read more about the contest's evolution.

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.