Note: To apply for the News Challenge, and read our FAQ, visit NewsChallenge.org. Improve your Knight News Challenge application and your chance of becoming a finalist by doing some basic research. Make sure you do the necessary research to show that you have a unique idea or a project that combines things that already exist to provide a […]
Article · March 13, 2012 by Jose C. Zamora
Photo Credit: John R. Rogers I and several of my Knight colleagues will be at SXSW Interactive in Austin through next week, where we will be involved in more than a dozen events and looking out for experiments helping to move society forward. At Knight, we believe information is vital to communities – and that new […]
Article · March 9, 2012 by Jose C. Zamora
Note: To apply for the News Challenge, and read our FAQ, visit NewsChallenge.org. On Monday, we will open the Knight News Challenge on networks. Just as we have revamped the contest, we have come up with a more streamlined application form. As John explained in our first post and in this video, the challenge is evolving […]
Article · February 23, 2012 by Jose C. Zamora
Note: To apply for the News Challenge, and read our FAQ, visit NewsChallenge.org. Since announcing the first topic for the 2012 Knight News Challenge last week, we’ve received a lot of questions about whether winners will have to release their code as open source. The short answer is no, but there’s a bit more to it […]
Article · February 13, 2012 by Jose C. Zamora
The following is crossposted from SXSW’s blog Knight Foundation will be back again in full force at SXSW 2012 as a participant in the Trade Show, the presenter of the Accelerator News category, and as a sponsor of the Future of Journalism track of programming. Please mark your calendars and join us at the following events: March 8 – iMA Conference […]
Article · February 1, 2012 by Jose C. Zamora
Knight Foundation is excited to participate in South by Southwest Interactive next March and sponsor the SXSW Accelerator Competition. Last year, we launched a new track for News-Related Technologies and we will continue supporting it this year. In fact, applications for the contest are due by next Friday, Nov. 18, at: sxsw.com/interactive/accelerator. At Knight, we are committed to seeing journalism to its […]
Article · November 11, 2011 by Jose C. Zamora
The Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership is starting to produce some very interesting ideas. I recently browsed through projects proposed by the 60+ participants of the program’s Learning Lab, which is just one aspect of the program that aims to speed media innovation in newsrooms. What I like most about these projects is that they provide […]
Article · August 31, 2011 by Jose C. Zamora
Photos by Teru Kuwayama Foreign Policy magazine highlights Basetrack, a 2010 Knight News Challenge winner and social media reporting project that accompanied the First Battalion, Eighth Marines for the first five months of their deployment in Afghanistan. The piece gives unique insight into life in war with a photo-essay of images taken with an iPhone. […]
Article · August 4, 2011 by Jose C. Zamora
A new digital media incubator launched today in Philadelphia will help promote media innovation by providing startups with a launching pad and creating a culture of innovation in the region. 87 percent of new companies that benefit from completing an incubation program tend to stay in business according to the National Business Incubation Association. Insights from […]
Article · July 11, 2011 by Jose C. Zamora
Knight News Challenge finalists have great ideas to speed media innovation. However, like all entrepreneurs and innovators, they need to create an organization that has a legal structure in order to develop their ideas. Deciding how to incorporate a media innovation or online publishing project is important. The legal structure will have an impact on […]
Article · June 1, 2011 by Jose C. Zamora
I am thrilled to be here on behalf of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to announce the 2009 Knight International Journalism Award winners. I am just down from Boston from another Knight announcement. Last week, we named the 2009 winners of the Knight News Challenge. The winning projects use crowdsourcing, mobile technology […]
Article · June 25, 2009 by Jose C. Zamora