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New media luminaries convene to determine 2010 Knight News Challenge winners

Lori Todd — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:12:38 +0000

Some of the brightest minds in new media, including luminaries such as investor and journalist Esther Dyson and Washington Post Managing Editor Raju Narisetti, convened at Knight Foundation in Miami for the final step in reviewing Knight News Challenge entries. Winners will be announced in June at MIT in Boston.

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Many of the reviewers are tweeting from the meeting. John S. Bracken (@jsb), of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, even created a Twitter list.

Knight Digital Training at UC Berkeley

Kristen Taylor — Wed, 21 May 2008 21:09:51 +0000

This week, the Knight Digital Media Center at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism presents a week of intensive workshop training for journalists in multimedia.

Mark Glaser of MediaShift (a blog the Knight Foundation supports), is live-blogging some of the workshops.

From MediaShift posts, find out about the Christmas Tree approach to incorporating multimedia, why UC Berkeley journalism school new media director Paul Grabowicz advises "print might be going away but not text," how video should be part, and not all, of a specific piece, why RAW format isn't necessary for the web, and try building this Flash template that "will help you do the interactivity for about 90% of Flash designs."

The Center offers more tutorials here.

What other topics would you like to see covered at a multimedia training week?

Knight News Challenge Winners Announced

Kristen Taylor — Mon, 19 May 2008 14:48:49 +0000

Last Wednesday, the Knight News Challenge winners were announced at the Editor & Publisher/Mediaweek Interactive conference in Las Vegas.

Knight Foundation president and CEO Alberto Ibargüen chatted with one of the winners, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, after the announcement; inventor of the World Wide Web, Berners-Lee is working with Martin Moore on a transparent journalism project.

The full details on all sixteen grants are here.

Video from all the winners explaining their projects, as Bev Clark does for her Freedom Fone project below, will be posted on this blog this week.

This year's winners will also join last year's News Challenge winners blogging for IdeaLab.

Fans of the News Challenge and these projects can join the News Challenge Ning social network to interact with the winners.