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The Knight Foundation's curious funding decisions2 comments

Dan Kennedy wrote 2 weeks ago: Howard Kurtz Among the odder aspects of Howard Kurtz’s very bad week (as reported by Michael C … more →

Tags: media, Banyan Project, Haverhill, Haverhill Matters, howard-kurtz, Daily Download, Knight Foundation

Knight News Challenge: Local Government Transparency and Connecting the Dots4 comments

Kaitlyn Patterson wrote 1 month ago: Team: Cassie Balfour, Caroline Logan, Kaitlyn Patterson Requested Amount: $50,000 Expected Amount of … more →

Tags: News Innovation Ideas, Featured, open government

traditional media, advertising, and the future of news innovation 3 comments

emiliaaskari wrote 3 months ago: Traditional news outlets are facing financial challenges on all sides. The Superbowl is supposed to … more →

Tags: News Critiques, twitter, facebook, Detroit Free Press, Superbowl Ads, twitter ads, detroit entrepreneurs, Michigan media outlets, LocalData

Knight News Challenge

Brittany T. Epps wrote 5 months ago: Previous Knight News Challenge Winner: Jon Vidar Project Title: The Tiziano Project Grant: $200,000 … more →

Tags: Multimedia Storytelling, Reflection, Multimedia, tiziano project, Tiziano 360, 360 Kurdistan, Jon Vidar

Who Has the Next Great Environmental News Idea?

juliehalpert wrote 6 months ago: The future of news is just as much about entrepreneurism as it is news gathering. I co-teach an envi … more →

Tags: University of Michigan, future of environmental news, environmental news apps

innovative ideas for gathering and delivering news 31 comments

emiliaaskari wrote 6 months ago: The Knight News Challenge is a competition that funds innovators who envision new ways of collecting … more →

Tags: News Innovation Ideas, cold, communicable disease, Digital Media, environmental journalism, Epidemiology, flu, future of news, incidence

5 Reasons Why You Should Submit Something To The Knight News Challenge On Mobile

nabjdigital wrote 8 months ago: By Benét J. Wilson, chair, NABJ Digital Journalism Task Force & social media/newsletters editor, … more →

Tags: Digital Journalism, Benet Wilson, app, Mobile

Infographics Are Broken. We Can Do Better.66 comments

Erick Schonfeld wrote 10 months ago: Infographics on the web are so bad and so broken. They are everywhere, yet few actually do a decent … more →

Tags: rants, media, Infographics, Data Visualization, Data, Tablea Software, Infogr.am, visual.ly, Vizualize.me

Is 2012 the year of skeptical software tools?9 comments

Tim Farley wrote 1 year ago: I’m very excited. Since the beginning of this blog in 2008 I’ve been encouraging skeptic … more →

Tags: Web, crowdsourcing, hypothes_is, Misinformation, rbutr

How NextDrop Is Using Cell Phones, Crowdsourcing To Get Water To The Thirst

crowdsourcingindia wrote 1 year ago: Source – Fastcoexist In many cities in developing countries, residents have piped water suppli … more →

Tags: Social Enterprises, crowdsourcing, India, 2012, NextDrop, Google maps, hubli

Davidow et al. on OpenCourt and Transparency in the Court1 comment

legalinformatics wrote 1 year ago: John Davidow of WBUR, and colleagues, gave a presentation entitled OpenCourt: Transparency in the Co … more →

Tags: Technology & Tools, technology developments, applications, projects, presentations, Video access to court proceedings, Public access to legal information, Privacy law and court records, Personally identifying information and court records

Knight News Challenge - 2011

maninhavana wrote 1 year ago: Photo: NextDrop In June 2011, the Knight Foundation awarded $4.7 million – $1 million of it fr … more →

Tags: Internet 2, Journalism 2, 2011, Winners, Innovations

Knight News Challenge: iWitness Wins $360K

ReDonah Shanee Designs wrote 1 year ago: The Knight News Challenge winners hail from all over the world. From El Mostrador, Santiago, Chile a … more →

Tags: android, associated press, Cambridge, DocumentCloud, New York, Social Media, united states

"A Tapestry of Data": Open Legislation with The State Decoded 2 comments

legalinformatics wrote 1 year ago: The State Decoded is a proposed open government data platform — currently in development … more →

Tags: Technology & Tools, technology developments, applications, projects, Free Access to Law, Legislative information systems, open government data, Public access to legal information, Law.gov

Knight News Challenge - How's It Working Out?

MCF Webmaster wrote 1 year ago: The Knight News Challenge — a five-year media innovation contest designed to reward new ideas … more →

Tags: Communication, philanthropy in the media, Private foundations, Research, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

Episode 2: The cloud we long for

Patrick Thornton wrote 1 year ago: This week we start off talking about the cloud we could have, which is far more robust than iCloud p … more →

Tags: Podcasts, 4G, Bank of America, broadband, Cloud Computing, cloud store, Comcast, human brain, Knight Foundation

Court Video Developments

legalinformatics wrote 1 year ago: Three notable courtroom video projects have recently been launched. First, proceedings of the UK Sup … more →

Tags: applications, projects, technology developments, Technology & Tools, (E)government, Judicial Conference of the United States, Knight Foundation, open government, OpenCourt

What Makes an Open Court?

Joe Goldman wrote 2 years ago: One of the most interesting sessions that I attended at this past weekend’s Transparency Camp … more →

Tags: Campaign for Stronger Democracy, open government, Transparency, Judicial Reform, transparency camp, wbur, Boston, Pilot experiment

#newschallenge: ScraperWiki honoured to be invited to the Knight's roundtable!

ainemcguire wrote 2 years ago: Last Thursday we were very excited to find out that we have been shortlisted by the Knight Foundatio … more →

Tags: developer, Journalism, News, newschallenge


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