Media News - Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Knight Foundation announces six winners of first round of News Challenge focused on networks
The Knight Foundation has announced the winners of round one of its
Knight News Challenge, reported Mediabistro. Nearly USD 1.4m in
grants will fund six media innovation projects focused on networks,
according to the Knight Foundation. Winners were revealed Monday during the MIT-Knight Civic Media
Conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, reported the
Boston Globe. According to GigaOM, the winning projects are "trying to
develop video, mobile and crowdsourced solutions to the problem of
filtering the vast ocean of news that washes over us every day."
The winners are Peepol.tv, which will aggregate live video of breaking
news into a searchable map; Recovers.org, to help communities struck by
disaster to create websites to attract media attention, volunteers,
donations, etc.; Signalnoi.se, which lets newsrooms track which stories
users are reading via social media and competitor sites; Watchup, an
iPad app for aggregating videos of breaking news; Behavio, an
"open-source platform that turns phones into smart sensors of people’s
real world behavior;" and Tor Project, which focuses on creating ways
for journalists to safely and anonymously communicate with sources.
This year the Knight Foundation is offering three rounds of the News
Challenge, instead of just one, in order to better keep pace with
innovation. (Knight Center)
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