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Article · August 15, 2013 by Chris Sopher
I remember my first time sitting at the big wooden table in Knight Foundation’s boardroom. It was January 2008, years before I joined Knight, and I was there with other reviewers for the second year of the Knight News Challenge. I remember proposals from professional journalists and proposals from people who’d never met a professional […]
Article · August 7, 2013 by Chris Sopher
Knight News Challenge: Health from Knight Foundation on Vimeo. Last month at the Civic Media Conference at the MIT Media Lab, we announced health as the theme of the next Knight News Challenge. Today we have the details: the collaborators we’ve brought together, the question we’ll be asking and our timeline. The Knight News Challenge: Health will focus on […]
Article · July 30, 2013 by Chris Sopher
Photo credit: Flickr user Guy Mayer July 30 update: “Announcing key collaborators and details of Knight News Challenge: Health” on KnightBlog.org. At the MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference, Knight Foundation Vice President of Journalism and Media Innovation Michael Maness just announced that the theme of the next News Challenge will be health. We’ve selected that theme because we […]
Article · June 25, 2013 by Chris Sopher
On Feb. 19 we launched the ninth Knight News Challenge on Open Gov, with the question “How might we improve the way citizens and governments interact?” We selected open government as a theme because we sensed an opportunity to accelerate this nascent field and to help it develop solutions that serve defined needs. Today, we […]
Article · June 24, 2013 by Chris Sopher
Infragram: the Infrared Photography Project by Public Lab on Kickstarter At Knight Foundation we have the delightful, challenging task of giving financial support to promising people and ideas—but this is rarely enough. We’ve found that the most successful projects are those that gather a passionate, dedicated community of users and contributors. Where that community exists, […]
Article · May 28, 2013 by Chris Sopher
Getting funding through the Knight Community Information Challenge: A guide for innovators from Knight Foundation. The challenge runs through July 1, 2013. Many of us live in communities where a rather remarkable collision is taking place— talented civic leaders and technologists are working together to make government more open, responsive and efficient. Talented people have built dozens […]
Article · April 30, 2013 by Chris Sopher
Today we’re excited to announce 40 semifinalists in the Knight News Challenge on Open Gov. We received more than 880 submissions to the contest, which is focused on the question “How might we improve the way citizens and governments interact?” We received ideas from all over the world, from small projects for public land reuse […]
Article · March 29, 2013 by Chris Sopher
About Knight News Challenge on Open Gov from Knight Foundation on Vimeo. *1:00 p.m. March 18 update: Please note due to a huge response the News Challenge site is temporarily down. We’re adding servers and will extend the deadline to 5:00 p.m. ET tomorrow – Tuesday, March 19.* As the deadline approaches for the Knight News Challenge on Open […]
Article · March 15, 2013 by Chris Sopher
Last year I read 2,546 applications for the Knight News Challenges on networks, data and mobile. Which means I read every application we received. At the risk of sounding like Dr. Seuss, I read them on a plane and on a train, in my living room and at the office, while drinking coffee and while eating dinner and frequently while sitting […]
Article · February 20, 2013 by Chris Sopher
Today, we announced the winners of the Knight News Challenge on mobile. They are eight fascinating projects we couldn’t be happier to support: Remote Access, RootIO, Abayima, Witness, TKOH, Textizen, WeFarm and Wikipedia. But here we want to share some other insights from the contest. The rise of mobile is an unprecedented opportunity to make […]
Article · January 17, 2013 by Chris Sopher