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• New Business Models for News

  
  Knight Foundation Blog — Authority: 123
  Jose Zamora is a Journalism Program Associate at Knight Foundation Local media is the focus of the journalism conference circuit. Estimates claim $100 billion in local-ad revenue could support local news and information projects, if it could only be successfully tapped. This follows the Knight Commission for ...
  1 day ago

• Spot.us/NYT collaboration published

  
  Knight Foundation Blog — Authority: 123
  Back in July, we told you about the collaboration being explored between the New York Times and Knight News Challenge winner Spot.us. This morning, the fruits of that collaboration appeared in the pages of the Times , where you can read Lindsay Hoshaw’s reporting on a garbage patch in the Pacific the size of ...
  6 days ago

• It’s called Computational Journalism

  
  Knight Foundation Blog — Authority: 123
  Never mind the big words. “Computational journalism” is all about using modern tools to do news in the public interest. The “computation” part refers to the use of computers to create, understand and display the news. Sarah Cohen is a Knight journalism chair focused on this new form of watchdog reporting. ...
  6 days ago

• Developers wanted: Tell us your great idea for a local news app.

  
  Knight Foundation Blog — Authority: 123
  Cross-posted from the Knight News Challenge Blog and the Sunlight Labs Blog The reason why we extended the Knight News Challenge deadline is because we want to invite and partner with organizations that share our mission, values and goals, and that have networks of software developers and entrepreneurs. Our ...
  3 weeks ago

• hNews Adopted by AOL and TownNews

  
  Knight Foundation Blog — Authority: 123
  Jose Zamora is a Journalism Program Associate at Knight Foundation Here’s evidence that the Knight News Challenge projects, experiments we hoped will speed media innovation, are having impact: The Transparency Initiative announced this week that AOL and TownNews have adopted the Knight funded microformat – ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Reconstruction of American Journalism

  
  Knight Foundation Blog — Authority: 123
  From Eric Newton , VP/Journalism Program, Knight Foundation: Much well-deserved buzz over the Reconstruction of American Journalism , a new report by Leonard Downie, Jr., and Michael Schudson. To its credit,  Columbia Journalism Review is reporting even  critical reaction .  Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab ...
  3 weeks ago

• Q&A: David Cohn says Spot.Us needs to scale with technology, not people

  
  BeatBlogging.Org — Authority: 92
  David Cohn recently expanded his community funded reporting project Spot.Us to Los Angeles. Cohn sat down with BeatBlogging.Org and discussed his plans to expand to more markets, his advice for those planning on applying to the Knight News Challenge (where the money for Spot.Us came from) and other thoughts on ...
  4 weeks ago

• Philadelphia tech site tries to put its news startup theories into practice

  
  Nieman Journalism Lab — Authority: 721
  Technically Philly looks like a prototype plucked from an entrepreneurial journalism textbook. The website offers targeted coverage. The founders nurture their community, online and off. In-progress revenue streams are smartly diversified across advertising and services.  But what if you did everything right, ...
  4 weeks ago

• Knight News Challenge: Win upto Rs 25 crore

  
  sans serif — Authority: 421
  NEWS RELEASE : The John F. and James L. Knight Foundation has extended upto 15 December 2009, the deadline for the the global Knight News Challenge that awards up to $5 million (approximately Rs 25 crore) for ideas that use digital experiments to transform community news. The Knight News Challenge is open to ...
  4 weeks ago

• Knight Foundation rethinks its stance on for-profit deals

  
  Nieman Journalism Lab — Authority: 721
  Everyblock won a $1,100,000 grant from the Knight Foundation in 2007 to build its innovative platform for aggregating local news and information. Two years later, soon after the Knight grant had expired, founder Adrian Holovaty announced that MSNBC had acquired EveryBlock. The sale raised questions about ...
  6 weeks ago

• Paperne.ws could change the online news design game

  
  ShortFormBlog — Authority: 581
  This Knight News Challenge applicant wants to make designing online as easy as designing in print. We’re very exited. SOURCE
  6 weeks ago

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