Knight Foundation

Informed & Engaged Communities

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Taking Radio 'Out of the Box'

To improve a city's awareness of its arts and culture by bringing more diverse voices to WNYC public radio using a new type of interactive web site

Boulder Carbon Tax Tracker

To create a citizen/professional journalism project using innovative web tools and citizen journalism practices to track Boulder's implementation of a carbon tax

Citizen Media Law Project

To create a 50-state database that will contain legal actions against citizen journalists, as well as state-specific legal guides

Digital News 'Incubators'

To create "incubators" at seven academic institutions to foster creative thinking about solutions to digital news problems

NY News Games

To use "news games" to tell stories and engage a nonprofit news organization's audience.

Oakland Jazz Scene Game

To complete the development and public launch of the game "Saving 7th Street: The Oakland Jazz & Blues Clubs"

Placeblogger

To make it easier for people to find hyperlocal news and information about their city or neighborhood through promotion of "universal geotagging" in blogs

Playing the News

To create a flexible-format reality-based newsgame that focuses on community issues

Center for Future Civic Media

To create new community news products in a major national center with MIT's Media Lab and Comparative Media Studies program

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