• Fellowships
  • Reports
  • Lab
  • Storyboard
    • Nieman Foundation at Harvard
    HOME
    About
    Subscribe
    Archives
              
    Foundation
    Reports
    Storyboard
    LATEST STORY
    PressPad, an attempt to bring some class diversity to posh British journalism, is shutting down
    Business Models Mobile & Apps Audience & Social Aggregation & Discovery Reporting & Production
    ABOUT                    SUBSCRIBE

    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.

    October 28, 2008
    Knight News Challenge: Don’t let that deadline loom too large
    November 2, 2008
    ProPublica and NYT seek $1M to put everyone’s documents online
    November 2, 2008
    Defining who the Knight News Challenge is for
    November 19, 2008
    DocumentCloud: The innovation $1m in Knight money could buy
    March 11, 2009
    More evidence that social media works: Susan Mernit at Knight
    June 17, 2009
    Knight News Challenge announces a (smaller) slate of winners for 2009
    June 17, 2009
    Knight News Challenge: A grant to DocumentCloud promises a data boost for investigative journalism
    June 17, 2009
    Knight News Challenge: Aaron Presnall’s data-viz project hopes to help small papers picture the news
    June 17, 2009
    Knight News Challenge: Six rules for local wikis, from the newest open-government project in New York
    June 18, 2009
    Gary Kebbel on the Knight News Challenge: Repetitive ideas, tougher judges hurt some applicants
    June 18, 2009
    Knight News Challenge: Ushahidi crowdsources the truth when reporters aren’t around
    June 19, 2009
    Knight News Challenge: Building a better toolkit for producing and sharing media on cell phones
    June 19, 2009
    Knight News Challenge: How a young editor turned a $0 big idea into a $95,000 small idea
    June 23, 2009
    MediaBugs rethinks corrections by taking a page from programmers
    June 24, 2009
    Knight News Challenge: Building a new tool for communication across neighborhood boundaries
    June 25, 2009
    Knight News Challenge: A tool to push old stories to new media
    June 25, 2009
    Complete Knight News Challenge coverage
    What’s the best way to follow how the news is changing?
    Our daily email, with all the freshest future-of-journalism news.
    Prefer a once-a-week email? »
    The latest from Nieman Lab
    PressPad, an attempt to bring some class diversity to posh British journalism, is shutting down
    Joshua Benton
    Is the Texas Tribune an example or an exception? A conversation with Evan Smith about earned income
    Richard Tofel
    The California Journalism Preservation Act would do more harm than good. Here’s how the state might better help news
    Jeff Jarvis
    “Fake news” legislation risks doing more harm than good amid a record number of elections in 2024
    Samuel Jens
    Dateline Totality: How local news outlets in the eclipse’s path are covering the covering
    Sophie Culpepper
    Help advance the Nieman Foundation’s mission “to promote and elevate the standards of journalism” by making a donation.

    To promote and elevate the standards of journalism

    Covering thought leadership in journalism

    Pushing to the future of journalism

    Exploring the art and craft of story
    © 2024 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College  /  Some rights reserved
    Harvard Trademark Privacy Digital Accessibility
    Walter Lippmann House    One Francis Ave.    Cambridge, MA 02138    617 495 2237