Knight News Challenge is almost ending...

Submitted by ipublicis on Wed, 10/22/2008 - 19:50.

This a very interesting contest for those working with Free Software and with community projects. Some info from their own site:

The 2009 Knight News Challenge is year three of a contest awarding as much as $5 million a year for innovative ideas that develop platforms, tools and services to inform and transform community news, conversations, and information distribution and visualization.

Knight Foundation plans to invest at least $25 million over five years in the search for bold community news and social media experiments.

In 2008, 17 winners were awarded over $5 million dollars. Their projects were from around the world and addressed a wide range of issues.

If you want to know more about the Knight News Challenge, we suggest you start at the beginning and read every page on this site.

If you are a reporter writing about the Knight News Challenge, please visit our press room.

The News Challenge is an initiative of John S. and James L. Knight Foundation's Journalism Program.

We plan to compete with two projects this year again. One with the good folks of OLPEP. Lets see if this time we are lucky.