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Knight Prototype Fund will take 18 new projects from idea to demo
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Knight Foundation reorganizes to accelerate media innovation and adoption of digital journalism tools
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Knight Prototype Fund supports 16 new storytelling and engagement projects for journalists and content creators
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Knight Prototype Fund will take 17 new projects from idea to demo
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24 new projects will go from idea to demo with funding from Knight Foundation
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Open Government projects receive more than $3.2 million as winners of Knight News Challenge
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Five new Knight Prototype Fund projects will improve journalism and storytelling
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Knight Prototype Fund helps innovators test future of media
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The Washington Post introduces model for “Truth Teller” real-time fact checker
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18 news and information ideas receive Knight Prototype Fund support
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Learning through making: 16 projects receive support to test ideas through Knight Prototype Fund
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Poetica creates simple way to get feedback on your writing
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Knight focuses on building better communication with grant recipients
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17 projects receive funding through Knight Prototype Fund
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New tool helps residents get ‘On Board’ with local governments
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Civic Works Project translates data into community tools
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The testable moment for media innovation
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Ben Wirz on providing venture funding for media innovation
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Multimedia project launches video editor that educates on fair use rules
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Chris Barr on the importance of funding early stage media prototypes
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Innovation starts with people
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Knight Prototype Fund tests early-stage ideas
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Hollaback! brings big data tools to street harassment storytelling
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Help launch FOIA Machine on Kickstarter
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An ‘urgent’ call for Voices of Youth mappers
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Introducing CrossCloud: A project to get your data out of silos
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Announcing the winners of Knight News Challenge: Open Gov
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Knight welcomes first editorial director
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Knight, MIT explore changing nature of civic engagement
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Innovating from within: Five public media innovators to develop new digital prototypes
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What toys can teach us about the future of journalism
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Knight welcomes Carol Coletta as new vice president
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Knight Foundation goes live with new portal for grantees
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Grantmaking gone lean - meet 8 new Knight-funded prototypes
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Debuting Truth Teller from the Washington Post; Real-time lie detection service at your service (not quite yet)
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Supporting transformational innovation in news
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Test first, then scale - four prototype ideas for media innovation
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@jsb: four things we're focusing on in 2013
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Knight Prototype Fund: building and testing new ideas to push media innovation forward
In The News
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Civic Ninjas Find Long-Term Solutions to Government Problems
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Out in the Open: This Man Wants to Turn Data Into Free Food (And So Much More)
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New York Public Radio, StoryCorps among 2014 Knight Prototype grantees
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Knight Foundation announces winners of prototype grants
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Knight Prototype Fund: When Storytelling Meets Civic Action
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Media startups will build new tools for civic engagement, storytelling [Knight Prototype Fund]
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CartoDB’s Odyssey.js Is An Open-Source Tool For Telling Stories With Interactive Maps
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Collab/Space Atlanta Updates: Funding, Scaling, Growing the Startups
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Three big open government funders help launch new ideas
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OpenDataPhilly will get $35K, Knight Foundation-funded upgrade
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Data-driven journalism sites make their mark
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Hey, YouTube, We Want to Sync Multiple Videos from the Same Event
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New Knight Prototype Fund winners offer a glimpse of new journalism tools
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Knight Foundation Helps Fund 17 Innovative Media Projects
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Knight Prototype Fund’s Winners Include Transparency Tools, Open Gov
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Knight’s Prototype Fund fuels 17 projects
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Open Source Story Map Tool Ready for Action (beta)
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How Vizzuality wants to bring mapping to the masses
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LouLoops App Gets the City Moving to Go the Extra Mile
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Argos: Knight Foundation-backed app to ease important news tracking
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How The BP Oil Spill Launched A Movement To Investigate Pollution With DIY Tools
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Knight Foundation’s Prototype Fund Announces 24 New Projects
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A dose of innovation in grant-making
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‘Intelligent’ news aggregation, one Brooklyn project in Knight Prototype Fund
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Media innovators test early-stage ideas with Knight Prototype Fund
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The Burlington Experiment: Home-Brewing a Bit of Internet in Northwest Vermont
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24 Projects Receive a Knight Prototype Fund Grant; Deadline for New Applicants is Jan. 31
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Social Media Curation: !nstant Gets Funding from the Knight Foundation
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Burlington’s ‘Civic Cloud’ effort lands $35,000 grant
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Curious City expands beyond Chicago with WYSO Curious
Featured Projects (3 of 118)
Browse ProjectsBrowse ProjectsiHollaback Prototype
To develop a pilot of a mobile application designed to allow individuals to report street harassment.
The Rashomon Project Prototype
To develop a tool for organizing multiple videos recorded at a public event into a single timeline
Social media and opinion research tool
For a proof of concept to match news and social sentiment with polling and socioeconomic demographics to create an open public opinion reporting and analysis tool.
About our Knight Prototype Fund strategy
The Knight Prototype Fund helps media makers, technologists and tinkerers take ideas from concept to demo. With grants of $35,000, innovators are given six months to research, test core assumptions and iterate before building out an entire project.
The program recognizes that with the cost of experimentation dropping, innovators should have the opportunity to test their greatest ideas and explore many options before choosing a final path. When successful projects emerge, Knight Foundation can help them scale.
The deadline for the next round of Prototype Fund grants is Nov. 1.
Browse through funded projects, our FAQ and apply now.
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Chris Barr
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