Documents/KF/1: Knight News Challenge

1: Knight News Challenge

Fund innovative ideas for using digital media to deliver news and information to geographically defined communities.

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www.NewsChallenge.org The 2011 Knight News Challenge is the fifth year of a contest awarding as much as $5 million a year for innovative ideas that develop platforms, tools and services to inform and transform community news, conversations and information distribution and visualization. Knight Foundation plans to invest at least $25 million over five years in the search for bold community news and social media experiments. For the 2010 contest, twelve winners were awarded close to $3 million.

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