Four months after opening the Knight News Challenge on networks, I’m happy to announce the six winners. We selected them after reviewing 1,100 applications over the last three months. For us at Knight, the fun part starts now. Over the next month, we’ll sit down with each of the winners to ask one question: “How […]
Article · June 18, 2012 by John Bracken
Photo Credit Flickr user Koen Vereeken The Knight News Challenge is being offered three times this year in short, focused rounds to better mirror the pace of innovation. Winners of Round 1, which focused on networks, will be announced June 18. Here, Journalism and Media Innovation Program Director John Bracken writes about the Knight News Challenge: […]
Article · May 31, 2012 by John Bracken
Photo Credit: Flickr user Thomas Hawk We just finished selecting the 52 proposals that will go to the next round of the Knight News Challenge on networks. (You can see 49 of them listed below; two were closed entries and we don’t have permission from the applicant to share.) Included in this 52 are the […]
Article · April 12, 2012 by John Bracken
Above: a photo from a slideshow on a recent Center for Investigative Reporting piece “Arms race on America’s streets.” Photo Credit: Andrew Becker, Center for Investigative Reporting. Today, Knight Foundation is announcing an $800,000 grant to the Center for Investigative Reporting to launch a new channel with YouTube. The channel, a hub for investigative journalism, will make […]
Article · April 11, 2012 by John Bracken
We announced last week that the five News Challenge applications that receive the most support from the public will advance to the second round of consideration along with the 100 or so projects identified by our review process. Some applicants have expressed confusion by what we meant by public support, so I wanted to clarify our […]
Article · March 21, 2012 by John Bracken
2011 News Challenge entries on Tumblr Over the weekend, we stopped accepting entries in the Knight News Challenge on networks. The challenge closes with more than 1,000 applications – a number higher than we expected. About two-thirds of those were submitted in the last 48 hours of the contest, which was expected. Among the applicants […]
Article · March 19, 2012 by John Bracken
Note: To apply for the News Challenge, and read our FAQ, visit NewsChallenge.org. As we enter the last 48 hours of the Knight News Challenge on Networks, I want to share some news and tips. First, we’ve mentioned that one of the challenge’s criteria is the ability to leverage networks to generate interest in your proposed […]
Article · March 15, 2012 by John Bracken
Last week, I described our approach to open source software in the News Challenge. We support open source and strongly encourage applicants in the contest to use it. Similarly, we think ideas are strengthened, and society most benefits, when they’re shared and discussed publicly. As such, we’ve set the default for the Challenge to public: […]
Article · March 7, 2012 by John Bracken
Photo Credit: Flickr User Jason A. Samfield Note: To apply for the News Challenge, and read our FAQ, visit NewsChallenge.org. A friend recently wrote that “open-source licenses are one of the most confusing things on the planet.” We see a need to better explain the open source rules for the Knight News Challenge, and our rationale for developing […]
Article · February 28, 2012 by John Bracken
Note: To apply for the News Challenge, and read our FAQ, visit NewsChallenge.org. Today we’re announcing a revamped Knight News Challenge. As illustrated by Michael Maness in the video above (and discussed in various places previously) we are evolving the challenge to be more nimble and more focused. We’ve expanded and narrowed the challenge this year, and are creating three opportunities for innovators to […]
Article · February 9, 2012 by John Bracken
This morning, our Mozilla partners announced the “retooling” of the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership under a new name, OpenNews. We began talking with Mozilla in 2010 and launched the project a year ago to advance media innovation and the open web. As Project Lead Dan Sinker says in his post today, “two years is an […]
Article · February 7, 2012 by John Bracken