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.”

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

Medill's Graduate Journalism Program

To create an academic program blending computer science and journalism, designed to fill a staffing void at many digital news sites

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

Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship

To support the development of media entrepreneurship and the creation of new digital media products through the establishment of a center at Arizona State University

Chi-Town Daily News

To create a new, low-cost model for training citizen journalist in every neighborhood of a major city to contribute to a citywide news site

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

NY News Games

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

Playing the News

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

Rising voices

To extend the successful Global Voices project to people from additional communities worldwide