Jose Zamora is a Journalism Program Associate at Knight Foundation

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The Knight News Challenge seeks to speed media innovation by funding projects that meet three criteria: 1. Use digital open-source technology 2. Distribute news and information 3. In determined geographic areas / local communities

Over the past two years Knight Foundation has funded more than 30 news experiments through the Knight News Challenge. Experiments that use technology in communications creatively to inform local communities.

The Knight News Challenge is a five-year, $25 million initiative that is open to anyone, anywhere in the world.

To learn more about the contest please visit: www.newschallenge.org The next round of the contest will open this September.

CUNY Journalism School Professor Jeff Jarvis on adding value online:

Michael Rosenblum on the first rule of video storytelling:

and Professor Jarvis on the news ecosystem (and how to be found):

Thoughts? Would you like to see more videos like this?

Reposted from Knight Pulse:

Tony Shawcross of Denver Open Media, a Knight News Challenge winner, talks about the suite of open source Drupal tools his team has developed for public access stations to automate tasks and let viewers determine the broadcast schedule.

How could you use these Drupal tools? Other thoughts on the role of public access stations in local communities?