Defining who the Knight News Challenge is for

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Defining who the Knight News Challenge is for

NYU’s Jay Rosen doesn’t seem too thrilled by the ProPublica/NYT application for the Knight News Challenge — at least based on his Twittering tonight:

Rosen’s point seems to be that $1 million going to big dogs like the Times would mean $1 million less for the small, scrappy startup ideas that the News Challenge is probably better known for. (Although, to be sure, healthy slices of News Challenge money have gone to big dogs like MIT in the past.)

In the end, of course, it’ll be up to the Knight folks to determine how to divvy up their funds. And that process is months away. But if I were an aspiring media entrepreneur deeply invested in the crazy idea I just submitted to the News Challenge, I could imagine being chuffed that I was competing with the nation’s top newspaper.

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Chuffed as in happy?
http://www.niemanlab.org/ Joshua Benton

The “annoyed, displeased, disgruntled” definition, not the “delighted, pleased, satisfied” one. Okay, so I’m not British. Cut me some slack!
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http://www.gothamgazette.com Amanda

Sure I’m chuffed to have to compete with the Times (and MTV, which won a grant in 2007), even as a local partner on Document Cloud.

However, the Times Foundation doesn’t fund the Times. So yeah, ProPublica and the Times can’t go to it for money.

I’d be a lot more chuffed to have to compete with the Times for Times Foundation grant money than for Knight money.

For another thing, a significant point of the application is to make the product of ongoing Times R & D investment available beyond their fine Renzo Piano designed walls.

PS. You can see Gotham Gazette’s proposals here.
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http://journo101.com Anna Haynes

My prediction: to the extent that NYTimes culture shapes the outcome, the ‘product’ will be information delivered to the readers; it’s not going to leverage the readers’ expertise and interest into building something greater.
http://fromtheonline.wordpress.com JTownend

ha – that confused me at first: there was only one definition of ‘chuffed’ as far as I knew! (I’m sure us British were first with ours)
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karhec

Interesting to see them win in the end – knight likes the big dogs – http://tinyurl.com/kvzsds gives the reviewers comments
Amanda

Three years later I have no idea where that came from.

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