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Vist The News Challenge Garage

Online Mentors to Aid Digital Contest Hopefuls

Fifty coaches are standing by online to help innovative thinkers apply for the Knight News Challenge, a $5 million-a-year contest to move journalism into the 21st Century. The coaches — made up of past jurors and winners — will give News Challenge hopefuls a better chance of winning up to $5 million in prizes annually. They also hope to attract a more diverse range of ideas. Visit the Garage now or read the news release.  
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Thursday, August 7, 2008
Online Mentors to Aid Digital Contest Hopefuls
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
J-Lab Moves to American University; Draws $2.4m Grant from Knight Foundation
Friday, July 25, 2008
Young Bloggers and Online News Users are Better Informed On First Amendment Rights, Authors Find

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Knight Blog
Introducing the News Challenge Garage (24 minutes(s) ago)
In the yearly News Challenge contest, Knight Foundation awards up to $5 million to innovators with ideas about implementing new local news delivery mechanisms. To help applicants before they apply, the News Challenge Garage launches (in beta) today as a place for applicants to tinker with their ideas, assisted by past winners and expert mentors. [...] (Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:46:06 +0000)More...
J-Lab Moves to American University with $2.4m Grant (Yesterday at 5:53 PM)
From the press release: J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism has moved to American University's School of Communication, where it will expand its operations with the help of a $2.4 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to American University. J-Lab helps journalists and citizens use digital technologies to develop new ways [...] (Wed, 06 Aug 2008 17:53:41 +0000)More...
Knight Progress Report: Miami Arts (Monday at 7:38 PM)
Part of the annual progress report, Knight Foundation asks what you think about the Miami Knight Arts Partnership. Bonnie Clearwater, executive director of the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami, explains some of their recent work in this video: “We've gone from about 100 arts groups to more than 1,200 in the past [...] (Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:38:15 +0000)More...
Commenting on Gulf Coast Recovery Efforts (Friday at 4:19 PM)
Analyzing Knight Foundation’s efforts in the Mississippi Gulf Coast, reporter Dick Polman writes, Today, nearly three years after the storm, and with expenditures thus far totaling roughly $10 million, Knight Foundation can rightly point to a string of achievements - most notably, its crucial role in bringing world-class planners and architects to the afflicted region, and [...] (Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:19:15 +0000)More...
Mario Garcia on newspaper innovation in U.S. (Thursday at 9:45 PM)
Newspaper designer Mario Garcia has a provocative theory about why there is less newspaper innovation in the  U.S. than elsewhere in the world. In today’s entry on his personal blog Mario states: [...] editors are extremely protective of what they consider to be “serious journalism,” and with this comes a negative reaction to anything that, like [...] (Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:45:23 +0000)More...
Citizen Media Law Project Online Guide Launch (Wed., July 30, 12:30 PM)
Yesterday, the Citizen Media Law Project, directed by David Ardia, launched the final sections of its online guide to media law. The free online guide, which is intended for use by bloggers, website operators, and other citizen media creators, focuses on the legal issues that non-traditional and traditional journalists are likely to encounter as they [...] (Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:30:21 +0000)More...
Lee Oglesby On the 2008 UNITY Convention (Mon., July 28, 4:49 PM)
Editor's note: Lee Oglesby has been interning with the Knight Communications department this summer. Today is her last day. This post concerns the UNITY Convention, which was held last week in Chicago. Knight is a sponsor of the event. The four days of workshops at UNITY 2008 Convention may have changed my mind a bit about [...] (Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:49:40 +0000)More...
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