Miami in mid November is one of the best decisions I have made this year. Warm sand at night, cuban food to write home about and this little thing called the Knight Foundation.
12 of the screeners for this years challenge gathered to screen applications, almost finishing the over 3000 application pile. It has been interesting [...]
I am a screener (read: judge of sorts) for this, if I know you, I won’t be able to look at your application.
Alright, November 1, 2008 is the last day you can submit an application to the Knight News Challenge.
$5,000,000 is being given away to fund innovative ideas that address the following points:
Use or create [...]
Susan Mernit asked me to be a News Challenge Screener for the Knight News Challenge. My first thought was ‘huh?’ My seccond thought was ‘no way!’ My third though was ‘this program is really, really cool.”
So what is this?
the $5 million Knight initiative to fund digitally innovative ideas in local news delivery
It is through [...]
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