Knight Foundation is excited to participate in South by Southwest Interactive and sponsor the SXSW Accelerator Competition, in which we are supporting the new track for News Related Technologies. At Knight we are committed to seeing journalism to its best possible future in the digital age. Over the past four years, Knight Foundation has invested more than $100 million in a Media Innovation Initiative, to ‘ among other things ‘ experiment with new media models for journalism. So far, our funding has helped launch more than 100 community news experiments.

If you are a current grantee or a media innovator who’s passionate about using journalism and technology to inform and engage communities, we want to meet you. We are interested in meeting Hacks/Hackers with great ideas to spur media innovation. We are eager to discover interesting projects, meet potential grantees or Knight News Challenge winners and learn about new technologies. The idea for the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership was hatched last year at SXSW and we hope to come back this year with more great projects, partnerships and ideas to speed and expand the field of media innovation.

We hope you can join Knight at one of the following events:

• Future of Journalism Panels Saturday, March 12 ‘ Sunday, March 13.
• Knight Foundation’s main panel Changing News Rooms and News Consumers Saturday, March 12. Creekside East 11^th St. Austin, TX 78701
• Knight Foundation’s Media Innovation Party Saturday, March 12 at Palm Door. 401 Sabine Street Austin, TX 78701 http://mediainnovationparty.com
• SXSW Accelerator Competition Monday, March 14 – Tuesday, March 15.
• Media Innovation Meet-up Monday, March 14 – Tuesday, March 15.
• Trade show Monday, March 14 – Thursday, March 17.

Join Knight in embracing journalism and technology and using it in ‘digitally native’ ways to inform and engage communities.