The Knight Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to fostering the arts and supporting invention in mass media, wants to hear your revolutionary ideas – and is offering a share of $5 million dollars to those that catch its eye.
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Filed by Kelsey H.
The Knight News Challenge, an international contest designed to spark innovation in the fields of journalism and communication, will hold three competitions this year. The first challenge is now open for submissions. The theme is “networks,” and participants are encouraged to submit project ideas that use “the best of existing software and platforms to find new ways to convey news and information.”
Entries can be submitted and critiqued via Tumblr, and applications will be accepted through March 17. Challenge winners will be announced in June. All challenges will be eight-to-10 weeks long, and future categories will be announced later this year.
Past awards, issued in the form of grants, loans or investments, have ranged from $10,000 to $1 million, with many 2011 recipients receiving well over $200,000 to develop and launch their projects.
Questions? Contact the Knight News Challenge on Twitter or email the foundation at newschallenge@knightfoundation.org.
Previous winners include DocumentCloud, a journalistic tool that helps writers analyze, annotate and publish original source documents. A joint project of ProPublica and The New York Times, DocumentCloud won $719,500 in 2009. In 2011, Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) received $320,000 to develop a new DocumentCloud crowdsourcing feature allowing newsrooms to invite readers to annotate and comment on source documents.
Focused more on local journalism, The Awesome Foundation: News Taskforce received $244,000 in 2011 to bring media innovators together and award a series of microgrants to pioneering civic media projects. (Read this story at Neiman Journalism Lab to learn more about how it works.) While the Awesome Foundation has supported arts and community projects worldwide since 2009, Detroit is the first city to launch the News Taskforce and will award its first grant this month.
“We’re looking for citizen reporters,” said Marshalle Montgomery, dean of the Taskforce. “People who have ideas for creating unique projects that will help the community and will use non-traditional media outlets to get that story out to others through social media, community news, mobile apps, etc.”
For more on the The Knight News Challenge watch below:
from Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/macfound/iQaL/~3/_DDobbDwGAA/
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