journalism
2008-10-25
Knight News Challenge 2008
Filed Under:
Application Deadline: November 1, 2008 for Worldwide Contest With $5 Million For Journalism Innovations.
Knight News Challenge 2008 reopened on September 2nd with another $5 million in funding available for digital media experiments to innovate news and communication before applications close on November 1st.
You Invent It. We Fund It!
The contest is open to community-minded innovators worldwide, from software designers to journalists to citizens and students of any age. Do you have a big idea for informing and inspiring a geographic community using social media, Web 2.0 tools or OpenID? How about exchanging information via video, photos or text messaging? A way to integrate game theory with web browsing to support local community engagement? Come on, push the edge – we’re seeking true innovation!
Winning entries must have three elements:
1) use of a digital media
2) delivery of news or information on a shared basis to
3) a geographically defined community
Entries must be open-source and share the software and knowledge created.
Apply!
You Invent It. We Fund It!
The contest is open to community-minded innovators worldwide, from software designers to journalists to citizens and students of any age. Do you have a big idea for informing and inspiring a geographic community using social media, Web 2.0 tools or OpenID? How about exchanging information via video, photos or text messaging? A way to integrate game theory with web browsing to support local community engagement? Come on, push the edge – we’re seeking true innovation!
Winning entries must have three elements:
1) use of a digital media
2) delivery of news or information on a shared basis to
3) a geographically defined community
Entries must be open-source and share the software and knowledge created.
Apply!
2008-09-05
Knight News Challenge 2008
Filed Under:
Worldwide Contest Reopens With $5 Million For Digital Media Experiments to Innovate Journalism. Applications accepted September 2 - November 1, 2008. September 9th: Webcast on how to apply. New this year: the News Challenge Garage for peer review and mentoring.
Things have really been chugging along here at the Knight News Challenge 2008, with lots of innovative new outreach coinciding with the contest’s official start. The worldwide contest reopened on September 2nd with another $5 million in funding available for digital media experiments to innovate news and communication before applications close on November 1st.
You Invent It. We Fund It!
The contest is open to community-minded innovators worldwide, from software designers to journalists to citizens and students of any age. Do you have a big idea for informing and inspiring a geographic community using social media, Web 2.0 tools or OpenID? How about exchanging information via video, photos or text messaging? A way to integrate game theory with web browsing to support local community engagement? Come on, push the edge – we’re seeking true innovation!
Winning entries must have three elements:
1) use of a digital media
2) delivery of news or information on a shared basis to
3) a geographically defined community
Entries must be open-source and share the software and knowledge created.
New in 2008: The News Challenge Garage
To support applications this year, Knight has created a new incubator — the News Challenge Garage — where prospective applicants can receive peer reviews and mentoring from screeners and awardees from previous years. To date, over 40 applications are already incubating in the Drupal-based Garage site. A diverse group of developers, online journalists, nonprofit evangelists, video bloggers and social media experts are on hand to coach at garage.newschallenge.org. The 50 mentors are available to coach and guide everyone who enters a project in the Garage. They include Vidoop’s Chris Messina, Spot.us’ David Cohn, Contentious editor Amy Gahran, Placeblogger’s Lisa Williams, Beth Kanter, J.D. Lasica and many other digital media specialists. For a postable video introducing the Garage in a variety of languages, visit DotSub to find out more.
Want to get more involved?
Apply!
Want more info?
The Knight News Challenge is incorporating new media tools to reach out to more diverse communities to spread the word about this year’s Challenge. You can follow us on Twitter, converse on video via Seesmic or chat about application ideas in our FriendFeed room.
Upcoming events: September 9th Webcast
If you’d like to ask questions and learn how to create an application in a more interactive space, Knight will host an online webcast hosted by Gary Kebbel, Journalism Program director for the Knight Foundation with Amy Gahran and Nora Paul, past Knight News Challenge winners, on September 9th, 11:00 a.m. Eastern.
September 9th will also feature a Knight News Challenge meet up in New York City at CUNY School of Journalism from 7-9 pm. For more info see this link: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/event.php?eid=41757320632
Background
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation invests in journalism excellence worldwide and in the vitality of 26 U.S. communities where the Knight brothers owned newspapers. Since 1950, the foundation has granted more than $400 million to advance quality journalism and freedom of expression. The foundation focuses on projects with the potential to create transformational change. For more, visit www.knightfoundation.org.
You Invent It. We Fund It!
The contest is open to community-minded innovators worldwide, from software designers to journalists to citizens and students of any age. Do you have a big idea for informing and inspiring a geographic community using social media, Web 2.0 tools or OpenID? How about exchanging information via video, photos or text messaging? A way to integrate game theory with web browsing to support local community engagement? Come on, push the edge – we’re seeking true innovation!
Winning entries must have three elements:
1) use of a digital media
2) delivery of news or information on a shared basis to
3) a geographically defined community
Entries must be open-source and share the software and knowledge created.
New in 2008: The News Challenge Garage
To support applications this year, Knight has created a new incubator — the News Challenge Garage — where prospective applicants can receive peer reviews and mentoring from screeners and awardees from previous years. To date, over 40 applications are already incubating in the Drupal-based Garage site. A diverse group of developers, online journalists, nonprofit evangelists, video bloggers and social media experts are on hand to coach at garage.newschallenge.org. The 50 mentors are available to coach and guide everyone who enters a project in the Garage. They include Vidoop’s Chris Messina, Spot.us’ David Cohn, Contentious editor Amy Gahran, Placeblogger’s Lisa Williams, Beth Kanter, J.D. Lasica and many other digital media specialists. For a postable video introducing the Garage in a variety of languages, visit DotSub to find out more.
Want to get more involved?
Apply!
Want more info?
The Knight News Challenge is incorporating new media tools to reach out to more diverse communities to spread the word about this year’s Challenge. You can follow us on Twitter, converse on video via Seesmic or chat about application ideas in our FriendFeed room.
Upcoming events: September 9th Webcast
If you’d like to ask questions and learn how to create an application in a more interactive space, Knight will host an online webcast hosted by Gary Kebbel, Journalism Program director for the Knight Foundation with Amy Gahran and Nora Paul, past Knight News Challenge winners, on September 9th, 11:00 a.m. Eastern.
September 9th will also feature a Knight News Challenge meet up in New York City at CUNY School of Journalism from 7-9 pm. For more info see this link: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/event.php?eid=41757320632
Background
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation invests in journalism excellence worldwide and in the vitality of 26 U.S. communities where the Knight brothers owned newspapers. Since 1950, the foundation has granted more than $400 million to advance quality journalism and freedom of expression. The foundation focuses on projects with the potential to create transformational change. For more, visit www.knightfoundation.org.
2008-04-17
Ashoka Journalism Fellows
Filed Under:
Knight Foundation and Ashoka Create Fellowships For Social Entrepreneurs in Journalism. Nominations open.
Ashoka is looking for innovators with new models to sustain journalism as a vital institution serving the social good. Their strategies will more effectively inform, engage, and connect people as active, change-making citizens. They are social entrepreneurs who:
Here’s where you come in:
· Nominate a social entrepreneur in journalism who merits recognition as an Ashoka Fellow
· Offer to mentor a journalism Fellow
· Let other people know about this initiative
· Learn about Ashoka’s two other new areas of focus: technological invention and social investment.
www.ashoka.org/journalism
Contact Keith Hammonds for more information and detailed selection guidelines for Ashoka’s Social Entrepreneurs in Journalism Program.
- Create new ways for journalists to connect with their audiences.
- Confront state abuse and censorship, or battle for human rights.
- Employ emerging technologies to make news media more accessible and relevant.
- Build capacity for civic literacy.
- Recast journalism’s role in democratic society.
Here’s where you come in:
· Nominate a social entrepreneur in journalism who merits recognition as an Ashoka Fellow
· Offer to mentor a journalism Fellow
· Let other people know about this initiative
· Learn about Ashoka’s two other new areas of focus: technological invention and social investment.
www.ashoka.org/journalism
Contact Keith Hammonds for more information and detailed selection guidelines for Ashoka’s Social Entrepreneurs in Journalism Program.
