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    Knight News Challenge 2011

    Our coverage of the 2011 Knight News Challenge, in which 16 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 in June 2011.

    June 22, 2011
    Knight News Challenge 2011: Sixteen winners, from mapping to data viz, from water shortages to interactive documentaries
    June 22, 2011
    Knight grantee NextDrop builds community by linking two scarce resources: water and information
    June 22, 2011
    The News Challenge-winning PANDA Project aims to make research easier in the newsroom
    June 23, 2011
    “The Drupal of dataviz”: Overview, AP’s News Challenge winner, wants to make sense of big document sets
    June 23, 2011
    The State Decoded, News Challenge winner, makes the law more user-friendly — and easier on the eyes
    June 24, 2011
    News Challenge winner OpenBlock Rural plans to partner with smaller papers on using public data
    June 24, 2011
    “Adding context to content”: Swift River gets Knight funding to tackle the problem of real-time verification
    June 27, 2011
    More Awesome: News Challenge grantee Awesome Foundation wants to fund journalism at the micro level
    June 27, 2011
    Deeper into data: U.K.-based ScraperWiki plans new tools and U.S. expansion with News Challenge
    June 28, 2011
    Think Wikipedia + Klout for government: Poderopedia is an index of Chile’s most powerful
    June 28, 2011
    Knight News Challenge winner Spending Stories wants to bring context to fiscal information
    June 30, 2011
    FrontlineSMS, a News Challenge winner, connects people in places where the web is out of reach
    June 30, 2011
    With News Challenge funding, The Tiziano Project will expand training and tools for community journalism
    July 1, 2011
    Solving data overload with design: News Challenge winner iWitness aggregates media by time and place
    July 5, 2011
    With its newest round of Knight funding, DocCloud will figure out how to scale reader annotations
    July 6, 2011
    The MacGyver method: With News Challenge funding, The Public Lab is building up its civic media toolkit
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