Knight Pulse is looking for a blogger to write one post a week rounding up the most relevant articles, posts, tweets, comments, videos, and podcasts about the future of news. More details below the video.

Posts will be highlighted on the home page of Knight Pulse, the community site about the future of news from Knight Foundation, and will link to the original content.

We seek an experienced Web journalist who can identify salient, interesting topics of discussion in the community that cares about the future of news.

As an applicant, you must be active in online communities and understand online content flow.

To apply (deadline May 8th), please e-mail your résumé and why you are the perfect candidate to Kristen Taylor, taylor [at] knightfoundation [dot] org.

UPDATED: This is for a paid contractor to write posts. We are open to applicants worldwide, but posts must be in English.

Know someone you would recommend? Send Kristen an e-mail, leave a comment below, or tweet the recommendation @knightfdn.

Last month, Knight Pulse, the community site on the future of news for Knight Foundation, held an event in Los Angeles with GOOD Magazine, tapping six community leaders.

More in coming weeks on these projects in design, urban homesteading, neighborhood installations, community service, and storytelling on Pulse and on the GOOD site.

Reposted from Knight Pulse:

Knight Pulse has partnered with GOOD Magazine to tap six community leaders in L.A. who are building community through five different projects (a recent LAist post on these projects gives more details).

The six community leaders, who will host events later this year (more information on Pulse and the GOOD blog soon) are:

Alissa Walker, Design LA (Pulse project page)

Eric Steuer, Communicating Creative Commons (Pulse project page)

Sonja Rasula, Community Service Fair (Pulse project page)

Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen, Local Living Workshop Series (Pulse project page)

Edgar Arceneaux, Watts House Project (Pulse project page)

Thoughts on these projects and other ways to engage the L.A. community?

Congratulations to Justin Ellis, who won the SxSWi badge for the popular media conference in Austin this week.

Knight Foundation’s community site, Knight Pulse, gave the badge away in an effort to increase the number of bookmarks with the tag ‘futureofnews’, a tag Pulse will be promoting in coming months.

The giveaway was announced through a Twitter update (”tweet”):

You can read Justin’s updates from the conference through his Twitter stream.

From our new community site, Knight Pulse:
How can licensing give creators control over use of their work?

Eric Steuer, Creative Director of Creative Commons tell us how cc licenses empower creators and shares what’s next for the organization. Find more at the Creative Commons blog, wiki, and projects page. (Many Knight projects use CC licenses; all projects in Knight News Challenge are open source.)

Happy 6th Birthday, Creative Commons!

How do you license your work? (And what do you think of our new Pulse feature?)

We'll go first: all Knight Blog content is licensed under CC 3.0 Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works, all Knight Pulse content is licensed under CC 3.0 Attribution-Share Alike.

Your turn. Let us know in the comments.

Today, Knight is launching a new community site called Knight Pulse, a place to discuss the future of information.

Updated: Here’s a video introducing the site:

Despite the current explosion of information, we are less informed. And in a world defined by information exchange, we need new ways to give, share, find, and receive information in our communities.

The goal of the Pulse site is to start conversations with a video post and listen as you debate ideas in the comments (and in other places, linking back). The site gives you a chance to develop collaborative projects about information that Knight Foundation may consider funding.

On the site, you’ll find information projects that the Knight Foundation is funding, events that foundation staff and Pulse users are attending, opportunities to volunteer, and blog posts about information needs from feeds across the Web.

And you’ll find profiles of people like you, who are also interested in improving information delivery–from details about local restaurant inspections (Everyblock) to discovering perspectives from bloggers around the world (Rising Voices).

Join the conversation and let us know what you think of the site–we’re using Get Satisfaction and UserVoice for feedback, both on the Pulse ‘Widgets‘ page, or leave a comment below–

The site is built in Drupal, and we are very pleased with the team at Development Seed and their great work on this project.