Community News Network

To create a new kind of college newspaper by involving award-winning journalists in the creation of an open-source software platform

Denver Open Media

To create free open-source software to enable Public Access Television stations to better serve and engage communities

Freedom Fone

To create an economical way for poor people to use cell phones to create and gather information in forms difficult for authoritarian governments to control

News on Cell Phones

To create a news system for cell phones in developing countries

Printcasting

To enable individuals to create narrowly targeted, local niche publications with local advertising

RadioEngage

To create an easy to use software package to help public radio stations create web sites

Sochi Reporter

To test the latest social networking and user-generated-content tools in a small Russian town about to host the Olympics

Spot.Us

To create a micro-payment system to fund investigative news reports

The News is Coming / Iindaba Ziyafika

To develop an innovative multimedia news system to unite a town separated by race and class divisions

Transparent Journalism

To help search engines better distinguish between well-reported journalism and everything else on the Internet

Video Volunteers

To train 100 Community Video Producers, and expand a media distribution network for 300 villages in India

PBS MediaShift IdeaLab Bloggers

To speed digital news innovation by creating an "idea lab" within the PBS MediaShift web site for Knight News Challenge winners