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		<title>Video: Montage from America&#039;s Digital Inclusion Summit</title>
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		<title>National Broadband Plan will increase digital literacy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The National Broadband Plan aims to have broadband in 90% of American households by 2020 (currently, the number is somewhere around 65%). Affordable access is only a piece of the plan, however.
The FCC recommends the creation of a three-part National Digital Literacy Program. During the America's Digital Inclusion Summit, FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn, at right, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.knightblog.org/national-broadband-plan-will-increase-digital-literacy</link>
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		<title>New contest to create easier online access to government services</title>
		<description><![CDATA[America's Digital Inclusion Summit has concluded. Video from the Summit will be posted later. In the meantime, you can view tweets about the event by following #BBplan.
During the opening remarks of America's Digital Inclusion Summit, Knight Foundation President and CEO Alberto Ibargüen announced a new contest to develop web apps that would access government and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.knightblog.org/new-contest-to-create-easier-online-access-to-government-services</link>
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		<title>Live: FCC previews recommendations for National Broadband Plan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[America's Digital Inclusion Summit has concluded. Video from the Summit will be posted later. In the meantime, you can view tweets about the event by following #BBplan.
In opening remarks at today's America's Digital Inclusion Summit, Knight Foundation's President and CEO Alberto Ibargüen said:
"The FCC believes, as we at Knight Foundation do, that you cannot have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.knightblog.org/live-fcc-previews-recommendations-for-national-broadband-plan</link>
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		<title>What Knight Foundation and it&#039;s grantees are learning from the Community Information Challenge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, Knight Foundation hosted the Media Learning Seminar to help inform community foundations about the information needs of communities in a democracy. As traditional local news sources and investigative reporting decline, citizens are increasingly involved in the co-creation of new information sources, including online news startups, localized Twitter feeds from political candidates and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.knightblog.org/reports-from-the-fiel</link>
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		<title>SXSW Interactive: Picks for Journalists</title>
		<description><![CDATA[South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive, the year's most anticipated tech conference, is just around the corner - kicking off on Friday, Mar. 12 in Austin, Texas. Many of today's biggest web and mobile apps were launched during SXSW, including Twitter (2007) and Foursquare (2009). There's a lot of speculation about what this year's big hit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.knightblog.org/sxsw-interactive-picks-for-journalists</link>
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		<title>Havana-Miami: Documentary project explores cultural connection between two cities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Living just 90 miles apart, the lives of a dozen young Cuban women and men, six in Havana and six in Miami, are being chronicled in an online documentary project, Havana-Miami.

In an article in the Miami Herald, Ilan Ziv, executive producer of the project, says:
The idea behind Havana-Miami is to use human experiences that are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.knightblog.org/havana-miami-documentary-project-explores-cultural-connection-between-two-cities</link>
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		<title>Shorty Awards winners announced</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Winners of the second annual Shorty Awards were announced Thursday night at TheTimesCenter in New York. CNN's Rick Sanchez (@richsanchezcnn) hosted the ceremony, which featured acceptance speeches by Cory Booker, Suze Orman and Rachel Maddow, as well as an appearance by Sesame Street's Grover.
The Shorties honor the best in real-time short form content, and in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.knightblog.org/shorty-awards-winners-announced</link>
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		<title>Philanthropy New York Discusses Future of Journalism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Vince Stehle, Knight Foundation contributing blogger
Philanthropy New York recently convened a debate and discussion about the future of journalism and the vital role of news and information in healthy communities. Columbia J School professor Michael Schudson, co-author with Leonard Downie of the The Reconstruction of American Journalism, elaborated on the controversial report’s call for increased government [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.knightblog.org/philanthropy-new-york-discusses-future-of-journalism</link>
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		<title>Next to the live video feed: the campaign contributions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Sunlight Foundation demonstrated during the Health Care Reform Summit 2010 that open government data can allow journalists, bloggers and citizens to provide context to a live news event.
 As officials testified, Sunlight provided a live feed which displayed lifetime campaign contribution data, as well as Twitter and blog commentary all on the same page, which can be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.knightblog.org/next-to-the-live-video-feed-the-campaign-contributions</link>
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