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Publishers are getting more aggressive about repackaging their work into ebooks, iPad magazines, and other new forms, in the hopes of creating something readers will pay for.
Felipe Heusser's balloon cam
“A channel guide for the entire Internet,” the site would guide users to breaking news happening around them.
Droplet demo
At this year’s MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference, two back-to-back presentations wowed us with new ideas.
The site helps communities assess damage, organize volunteers, and direct donations.
Tor builds privacy-protecting software, networks, and portable operating systems with journalists in mind.
Lessons from previous grants and investments have changed Knight’s approach to funding innovation. Justin Ellis
Knight News Challenge winner Watchup aggregates videos from YouTube for a new iPad app that lets users customize their own mini-newscasts. Adrienne LaFrance
The Knight News Challenge winner uses Twitter and Facebook to help newsrooms track their own — and competitors’ — stories.
Behavio mockup of photo with smart metadata
The Knight News Challenge winners are building an open-source framework to simplify mobile data collection and processing.
Six winners share more than $1.3 million in the first post-reboot round of the Knight Foundation’s news-innovation contest. Joshua Benton