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Browse ProjectsBrowse ProjectsOpenblock 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.
Printcasting
To enable individuals to create narrowly targeted, local niche publications with local advertising
PANDA
To help news organizations better use public information by creating new software that cleans up and aids in analyzing it.
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Get Updates On Knight News ChallengeNews 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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Tools, tips and strategies for making media mobile
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Finding my people, new tools for journalism at Mozilla Fest
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How @documentcloud is turning documents into data
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@Zeega: Allowing people to collaboratively produce, curate and publish multimedia
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@pandaproject, a newsroom data app that provides a place to store, search and share data
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Highlights from last week’s Mozilla Festival
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@michaelmaness and @dansinker: Open source is key to innovation
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An East London Knight News Challenge Preview
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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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RT @arouault: Good times today with @mayordavebing and @rsjaitly of the Knight Foundation in Detroit. @codeforamerica #cfadetroit
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Students participate in Digital Learning Day, celebrate using tech to strengthen learning http://t.co/gi73itdc #DLDay v/ @Idit @globaloria
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RT @BMEChallenge: Great pix from this AM's @FM98WJLB radio interviews w/ #Detroit BME Leadership Award Winners http://t.co/Y21qoyTW
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MT @amystarlight: Symposium on #philanthropy & local accountability journo today @Cronkite_ASU http://t.co/Y6jMWVUO
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MT @sunlightlabs: Nice turnout at @scraperwiki #jdcny event & this is only 1/2 the folks that are busily scraping away http://t.co/D41EID8y
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@mobilemediakit Thanks for the #FF!
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A list of 7 helpful tech resources for nonprofits http://t.co/idLSXWG4 v/ @fdncenter #philanthropy #nptech
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A city that has the potential, tools & credible plan for transforming its core, @upakron continues to build its case http://t.co/xQaSzIbz
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#Journos talking about a basic q of digital age: How can they go beyond informing communities to actually engage them? http://t.co/GDb1bgHf
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RT @SusanEMcG: Tow Center/ScraperWiki datacamp is officially underway! Can't wait to see all the great work that comes out of it. #jdcny
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Journalism data camp today w/ #newschallenge winner @scraperwiki http://t.co/zsdKa6ZC Follow along w/ #cujtow #jdcny via @jsb
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Tune in to @fm98wjlb & listen to interviews w/ the 10 Detroit @BMEChallenge Leadership Award Winners! http://t.co/hqqoVSBA
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RT @Cronkite_ASU: @knightfdn symposium at Cronkite School tomorrow on philanthropy & local nonprofit journalism. http://t.co/HoFKN0Pt
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Reporters, editors, citizen journalists & bloggers eligible for int'l #journo award. Noms accepted 'til 2/27 http://t.co/pBk3CtEv via @icfj
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Congrats @DAFrizzG for being featured in @PhillyWeekly's 'The Faces Issue: Celebrating Black History Month' http://t.co/Wu4Vdj0Y
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Tom. meet the 10 @BMEChallenge #Leadership Award Winners in-person in Detroit http://t.co/9HXQfjZt Radio interviews on @fm98WJLB
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RT @jczamora: #toolofday freeDive allows anyone to create a database, search & play w/ that data http://t.co/aeqyayWq v @KDMCinfo #opendata
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#opengov survey by @NSArchive finds slow #FOIA response times, some "in limbo" http://t.co/y8SImF6M via @amystarlight
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Via @higherawesome: 5 ways microgrants help fund #journalism http://t.co/ZufLbbeu h/t @civicMIT
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Got ideas on media innovation and the future of news? Join us in Austin for #SXSW http://t.co/HUp0F7eJ
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This is what #philanthropy looks like when you tap into the passion of people who want to better their community http://t.co/yC4g1s4C
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Data suggest more and more people are visitng news websites - and they're staying longer http://t.co/YUhY54WS h/t @NiemanLab
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Today @Globaloria classes opened their doors to share w/ others! See photostream on flickr: http://t.co/dCtwClFs @DLDay2012 #DLDay
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Great pic of @DLDay2012 via @Idit: Jayla, 7th grader, Christopher MS, proudly showing her math game 2 her family http://t.co/QT1CYzq6
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Studies show @UpAkron's community development plan can be transformational http://t.co/MfRH7qwn #Akron
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Join @knightfdn at @SXSW Interactive http://t.co/HUp0F7eJ by @jczamora #journalism #innovation #SXSW
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Have q's about Knight's Community Info Challenge? Ask them next Wed 2/8 at 12pm during live web chat http://t.co/2TleP5PB
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2k+ youth in 60 schools in @Globaloria network mark #DLDay by virtually & physically opening its game design classes http://t.co/mS4vsgUc
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#Haiti fundraising campaign post earthquake was a success in large part due to planning http://t.co/h1ppwvHU by @Afine #philanthropy
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Don't miss today's deadline for #journalism fellowships at @stanford & @umich http://t.co/yW2iU0CS - http://t.co/ZeSs0kKj
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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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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New-media tools can bolster traditional journalism
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Knight News Challenge to run three times a year
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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 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.