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Knight News Challenge 2009

Our coverage of the 2009 Knight News Challenge, in which nine projects trying to improve the future of journalism received grants from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Past and present News Challenge winners met at MIT June 17-19, 2009.

Zachary M. Seward    October 28, 2008
Knight News Challenge: Don’t let that deadline loom too large
Zachary M. Seward    November 2, 2008
ProPublica and NYT seek $1M to put everyone’s documents online
Joshua Benton    November 2, 2008
Defining who the Knight News Challenge is for
Zachary M. Seward    November 19, 2008
DocumentCloud: The innovation $1m in Knight money could buy
Tim Windsor    March 11, 2009
More evidence that social media works: Susan Mernit at Knight
Joshua Benton    June 17, 2009
Knight News Challenge announces a (smaller) slate of winners for 2009
Zachary M. Seward    June 17, 2009
Knight News Challenge: A grant to DocumentCloud promises a data boost for investigative journalism
Ben Cohen    June 17, 2009
Knight News Challenge: Aaron Presnall’s data-viz project hopes to help small papers picture the news
Michael Andersen    June 17, 2009
Knight News Challenge: Six rules for local wikis, from the newest open-government project in New York
Joshua Benton    June 18, 2009
Gary Kebbel on the Knight News Challenge: Repetitive ideas, tougher judges hurt some applicants
Jessica Roy    June 18, 2009
Knight News Challenge: Ushahidi crowdsources the truth when reporters aren’t around
Joshua Benton    June 19, 2009
Knight News Challenge: Building a better toolkit for producing and sharing media on cell phones
Michael Andersen    June 19, 2009
Knight News Challenge: How a young editor turned a $0 big idea into a $95,000 small idea
Zachary M. Seward    June 23, 2009
MediaBugs rethinks corrections by taking a page from programmers
Lois Beckett    June 24, 2009
Knight News Challenge: Building a new tool for communication across neighborhood boundaries
Lois Beckett    June 25, 2009
Knight News Challenge: A tool to push old stories to new media
Joshua Benton    June 25, 2009
Complete Knight News Challenge coverage
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