Knight Foundation

Informed & Engaged Communities

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Signalnoi.se

To help newsrooms optimize editorial decision making by providing a dashboard that tracks stories through social networks and across competitor sites.

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

Everyblock

To create, test and release open-source software that links databases to allow citizens of a large city to learn (and act on) civic information about their neighborhood or block

VillageSoup

To create an open-source version of VillageSoup’s successful community news software, combining professional journalism, blogs, citizen journalism, online advertising and “reverse publishing” from online to print. Goals: “Turning independent weekly newspaper companies and entrepreneurs into an imposing, lively, worldwide creative energy that is competitive with media company chains.”

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

Printcasting

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

DocumentCloud

To create a public, easily searchable index of original source documents on the Web

Mobile Youth Journalism (08 Election)

To cover a presidential election for young people via mobile media by creating a nationwide Mobile Youth Journalists network and to reuse their video reports on MTV

Sochi Reporter

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

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

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