On Monday, Knight Foundation announced the five finalists in the Knight/NEA Community Arts Journalism Challenge, a program founded this summer to find new ways to use technology to inform and engage people in the arts. 

The five finalist projects emerged from 233 applications submitted from eight pilot communities where Knight Foundation currently invests.

During the announcement each of the five finalists described how their projects inject innovation into arts journalism in their communities.

The announcement of the finalists took place at the Grantmakers in the Arts conference in San Francisco.