All entries tagged: geography
Knight News Challenge: How a young editor turned a $0 big idea into a $95,000 small idea
When Adam Klawonn quit his job at a shrinking major metropolitan newspaper in 2006, he did what so many other journalists have: launched an online news operation that looked a lot like a newspaper’s web site, only with less stuff.
On The Zonie Report (“A New Kind of News for Arizona”), he set out to cover [...]
Gary Kebbel on the Knight News Challenge: Repetitive ideas, tougher judges hurt some applicants
I had a chance yesterday afternoon to talk with Gary Kebbel, the journalism program 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 week.)
I asked him why there were fewer winners [...]
