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Innovators worldwide compete with digital ideas.

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A high-level commission explores society’s information needs.

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Pro-bono consultants help communities create universal access.

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Community foundations join Knight in a matching challenge.

A strategy of experimentation is at the core of the media innovation initiatives above. Read more.

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Adrian Holovaty's 'Everyblock'

Chicago Tribune Features Knight News Challenge Winner Everyblock.com

"Adrian Holovaty is as red-hot as a techie can get. His EveryBlock.com tells you all about your neighborhood-including who's taking bribes," says Sunday's Chicago Tribune. Holovaty won $1.1 million in the Knight News Challenge and has been transforming readers' expectations of online journalism. Visit Everyblock now or read the story in The Chicago Tribune.

 
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Progress Report 2007-08



Managing Change Through Experimentation, Innovation

With an essay and four video stories, our new progress report describes our continuing transformation into a 21st-century organization. Three years ago we introduced the concept of transformation. We continue to refine the concept, welcoming experimentation and innovation as a way to manage change. Read it online now.

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Knight Blog
Spot.Us and Crowdfunding in the NYTimes (Sunday at 11:31 AM)
The New York Times writes about Knight News Challenge (the ~$5 million yearly contest to fund innovative news delivery ideas) winner David Cohn’s Spot.Us project today: “Spot Us would give a new sense of editorial power to the public,” said David Cohn, a 26-year-old Web journalist who received a $340,000, two-year grant from the Knight [...] (Sun, 24 Aug 2008 11:31:04 +0000)More...
Milledgeville Municipal WiMax Network (Friday at 7:07 PM)
The Milledgeville Union-Recorder ran a story yesterday about the new Milledgeville Municipal WiMax Network, part of a universal access initiative at Knight Foundation. Milledgeville Program Director Beverly Blake made clear Knight’s commitment to connect individuals in physical communities through this initiative: “The Knight Foundation does not come into a community, say we have this great [...] (Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:07:38 +0000)More...
News Challenge Garage Update and Seesmic Video (Wed., August 20, 4:41 PM)
This week, leading thinkers in digital media will begin to mentor many of the thirty-five projects in the News Challenge Garage, a new incubator site for the News Challenge contest (a Knight media initiative that awards ~$5 million a year to innovative news delivery projects). You can join the Garage by signing up here; you [...] (Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:41:44 +0000)More...
Everyblock, Three New Cities, and the Chicago Way (Mon., August 18, 9:02 PM)
This weekend, the Chicago Tribune ran a story about Knight News Challenge winner Everyblock and its founder, Adrian Holovaty. And yesterday, the Everyblock project (”a news feed for your block”) expanded into three new cities: Boston, Seattle, and Washington, DC. Director of Knight Journalism program Gary Kebbel gives Everyblock background: Adrian Holovaty won a $1.1 [...] (Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:02:12 +0000)More...
The Takeaway's VeepStakes on Facebook (Mon., August 18, 2:11 AM)
The new morning radio multi-platform news program The Takeaway, partially funded by Knight, has recently introduced a game on Facebook (the popular social networking service) called VeepStakes. Takeaway Web Editor Adnaan Wasey explains the game: If you already have a Facebook profile, you can start playing the game here. Look for more seriously fun content from The [...] (Mon, 18 Aug 2008 02:11:59 +0000)More...
Beijing Olympics and Press Freedom (Thu., August 14, 4:09 PM)
In April, Knight sponsored a conference in Paris on press freedom and the Beijing Olympics with Asia Presse (Paris), Committee to Protect Journalists (New York), Human Rights in China (New York, Hong Kong, Brussels), Reporters Sans Frontieres (Paris), World Association of Newspapers (Paris), and the World Press Freedom Committee (Washington, D.C.). There was simultaneous interpretation [...] (Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:09:48 +0000)More...
Miami Art Blogging (Wed., August 13, 7:58 PM)
As we’ve previously blogged, one section of Knight’s annual progress report asks what you think about the Miami arts scene and the new Knight Arts Partnership, a $20 million matching challenge to fund individuals and organizations with ideas for the future of arts in Miami. I asked Rick of the South Florida Daily Blog (SFDB), [...] (Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:58:01 +0000)More...
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