Yesterday, Knight Foundation was honored to host innovators in new media who helped us review final entries in the 2010 Knight News Challenge. It was a terrific experience to work with these inspiring and passionate people. Here’s a look at who was in the room:

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• Adriano Farano, co-founder of cafebabel.com, an independent media consultant who also teaches at several French journalism schools.
• Calvin Sims, a program officer at the Ford Foundation, focuses on development of a free and responsible press worldwide.
• Chloe Sladden helps manage Twitter‘s media partnerships to create new approaches to content creation, news reporting, interactivity and audience engagement.
• Dylan Lewis, an entrepreneur and consultant who has spearheaded Carnegie Hall‘s social media projects.
• Esther Dyson, journalist and technology commentator, backer of many media ventures, including 23andMe, Eventful, Evernote, NewspaperDirect, Voxiva and Yandex.
• Gary Kebbel, Knight Foundation’s digital Journalism portfolio director and soon to be dean of the journalism school at the University of Nebraska.
• Hong Qu, a digital toolmaker and early YouTube staffer and maker of social media tools that help us better understand ourselves and the world around us.
• Jamie Daves, partner at City Light Capital, helped found Current Media with Vice President Al Gore and Joel Hyatt.
• Jennifer 8. Lee, a consultant for Knight Foundation, is a former New York Times reporter and author of ‘The Fortune Cookie Chronicles.’
• Jesse Moore, founder of Signal Point Partners, which advises and invests in emerging market ventures that use mobile phones to deliver basic services.
• Jim Bildner, managing director of the Center for Applied Philanthropy, is a frequent lecturer and speaker on social enterprise and philanthropy.
• Joe Edelman, founder and ceo of Citizen Logistics and developer of Groundcrew.
• John S. Bracken online innovation and social entrepreneurship program officer at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
• Jordan Greenhall, co-founder and chairman of DivX Inc., the company behind the digital data compression application DivX that enabled reasonable quality video transmission over the Internet.
• Jose Zamora, Journalism Program associate at Knight Foundation.
• Katrin Verclas, co-founder and editor of MobileActive.org, currently working on mobile projects in governance, accountability, and participation in emerging democracies.
• Mayur Patel, Knight Foundation’s director of strategic assessment, responsible for Knight’s assessing the impact and effectiveness of the foundation’s work.
• Dr. Nicol Turner-Lee, director of the Media and Technology Institute for the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, established to study how media and communications technology can become avenues of advancement for people of color.
• Puneet Agarwal, investor at True Ventures, focused on infrastructure and software applications, specifically around cloud computing, open source, SaaS, and mobile.
• Raju Narisetti, The Washington Post managing editor, responsible for online content.
• Tristan Harris, CEO and Co-Founder of Apture (a web app that adds context to web pages without requiring the reader to leave the page).
• Troy Etulain, USAID, senior media advisor, focused on repressive media environments, including Afghanistan, Somalia, Burma, Sudan, Rwanda, Zimbabwe.
• Vincent Stehle, consultant to Knight Foundation, former program Director at the Surdna Foundation.
• Vytenis Didziulis, features editor at PODER magazine.
• Warren Webster, president of Patch Media, that has launched over 40 local news sites in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, California and Massachusetts.

Many of the reviewers are on Twitter (you can follow them here). Also, you can watch a slideshow from yesterday’s meeting.

‘ Alberto Ibargüen, President and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation