Comments on: Knight News Challenge announces a (smaller) slate of winners for 2009

By: Gary Kebbel on the Knight News Challenge: Repetitive ideas, tougher judges hurt some applicants » Nieman Journalism Lab

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:26:13 +0000

[...] director at the Knight Foundation and, thus, the administrator of the Knight News Challenge, which announced its newest set of winners yesterday. (News Challenge winners new and old are meeting at MIT this [...]

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Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:14:31 +0000

[...] watcher Joshua Benton at Harvard’s Neiman Media Lab said diplomatically today that he thought the applicant pool, winners and prizes were a little disappointing – but [...]

By: Complete Knight News Challenge coverage » Nieman Journalism Lab

Complete Knight News Challenge coverage » Nieman Journalism Lab — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:01:07 +0000

[...] profiled all nine winners of the 2009 Knight News Challenge. Links to all nine are now available on our post announcing the winners last [...]

By: Bonnie Bucqueroux

Bonnie Bucqueroux — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 03:46:02 +0000

The knock on the Knight Challenge is that it focuses more on the bottle than the wine – always looking for a glitzy new tech tool rather than a unique concept. Yet the history of grant-funded online innovation has not been all the promising. Funders put a bundle into OurMedia, which promised to allow me to upload video. But it was a dud. Once the commercial venture YouTube became available, OurMedia was dead in the water. I know plenty of online startups that once looked to the Knight Challenge as a potential funder, but they soon realized that the bias was toward new geek tools. If I am wrong, please assure me that applying would be worth my time.

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By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:51:21 +0000

Re: decision about CoPress, that link is actually to our first round application. Our application (and organization) evolved significantly in the period of time between the November deadline and when we were told of the decision at the beginning of June.

Daniel Bachhuber, Executive Director, CoPress

By: karhec

karhec — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:24:05 +0000

This appears to contain the decision basis on copress –

http://generalapp.newschallenge.org/SNC/ViewItem.aspx?pguid=4b47516e-497b-426d-98b4-7f04c60413e5&itemguid=33cebf50-84ac-4dbd-bea2-212abd45c276

By: Tracy @ WSB

Tracy @ WSB — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:12:25 +0000

Instead of always looking for new ideas – how about a shift in focus, or at least a sideline, for helping semi-established “new ideas” get to the next level?

Our successful neighborhood-news service evolved in a way that gave us no chance to ever put it forward as a proposal – it grew out of a conventional “blog” – but while we are doing quite well with what we do now, there are so many other things I would like to add, to expand to … but they require capital … 3 to 6 months of a developer’s time, perhaps, for example.

While programs like this are always barking after the next shiny new idea to race down the track, I propose there is something to learn from some of us out here who blundered into success … and something to be gained by offering some help.

Since we’re not creating fancy new techy tools to share with the world, we don’t get the zillion-dollar VC attention, but I suggest there could be value to helping some of us who “are” doing something grow, rather than bestowing all the attention and cash onto the next group of people who “might” be able to do something.

Just a thought of what might be worth considering, if the pool of these bright shiny new ideas is truly shrinking.

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Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:10:47 +0000

[...] watcher Joshua Benton at Harvard’s Neiman Media Lab said diplomatically today that he thought the applicant pool, winners and prizes were a little disappointing – but [...]

By: Knight News Challenge: Ushahidi crowdsources the truth when reporters aren’t around » Nieman Journalism Lab

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:07:44 +0000

[...] riveted with news and photos pouring out of Iran. It seems particularly appropriate, then, that the Knight News Challenge also announced its grant recipients this week. Many of the platforms developed for the Challenge are aimed at [...]

By: DocumentCloud Gets Funding to Create Research Memory Bank in the Sky | Techdare

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:13:32 +0000

[...] watcher Joshua Benton at Harvard’s Neiman Media Lab said diplomatically today that he thought the applicant pool, winners and prizes were a little disappointing – but several of [...]

By: DocumentCloud Gets Funding to Create Research Memory Bank in the Sky | KGRAND ONLINE NEWS

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:10:31 +0000

[...] watcher Joshua Benton at Harvard’s Neiman Media Lab said diplomatically today that he thought the applicant pool, winners and prizes were a little disappointing – but several of [...]

By: TumbleTech » DocumentCloud Gets Funding to Create Research Memory Bank in the Sky

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:58:15 +0000

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By: Knighted

Knighted — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:03:51 +0000

Joshua,

Thanks for the details re: NYTimes. I don’t see why these organizations couldn’t have pooled their money to build this if it’s so important to them, but what’s done is done.

By: DocumentCloud Gets Funding to Create Research Memory Bank in the Sky | UpOff.com

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:54:33 +0000

[...] watcher Joshua Benton at Harvard’s Neiman Media Lab said diplomatically today that he thought the applicant pool, winners and prizes were a little disappointing – but several of [...]