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2008 Knight News Challenge Winners List

2008 Knight News Challenge Winners List

Winners

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PROJECT
WINNER
PROJECT
GRANT

Freedom Fone
Bev Clark
To test a phone-based information system in rural areas
$876,000

Printcasting
Dan
Pacheco
To create free computer software to help neighborhood publishers create niche publications
$837,000

The News Is Coming
Prof.
Guy Berger
To create equal access to news for a racially and geographically divided city
$630,400

Sochi Olympics Project
Alexander Zolotarev
To create an interactive web site to help a Russian city cope with hosting the Olympics
$600,000

Tools for Public Access TV
Tony
Shawcross
To develop new software so that community television stations can easily create and network their web sites
$380,000

Transparent Journalism
Martin Moore,
Sir Tim
Berners-Lee
To create a “meta-data” system to help the public find quality news sources
$350,000

Spot Journalism
David Cohn
To test a new way
to fund local,
investigative reporting
$340,000

Radio Drupal
Margaret
Rosas
To create free software that radio stations can use to create multimedia web sites
$327,000

News on Cell Phones
Joel
Selanikio
To develop a way for people to receive news using text messaging on cell phones
$325,000

Community News Network
Dharmishta
Rood,
Anthony
Pesce
To create free software for a new kind of community-networked college newspaper
$275,000

Video Volunteers
Jessica
Mayberry
To create a video network using citizen journalists to inform a large, rural population
$275,000

Community Radio in India
Aaditeshwar
Seth
To experiment with low-cost community radio in India
$200,000

Beanstockd
Angela
Antony,
Sandra
Ekong
To test a news-based environmental game at a university campus
$40,000

Signcasts
Brein
McNamara
To explore the digital communication needs
of deaf people
$15,000

The Includer
Andrius Kulikauskas
To discuss ways to disseminate digital information in rural areas without Internet or wireless capabilities
$15,000

Reporting On
Ryan Sholin
To encourage journalists across the country to openly discuss story ideas and topics
$15,000