Just about anyone in journalism has heard of the Knight News Challenge. In his ISOJ presentation, Seth Lewis, University of Texas at Austin looked at how it shapes journalism. As background, he talked about the tension between professional journalistic practices, based on gatekeeping, and participatory logic of open and collective spaces. He researched how winners of the Knight News Challenge negotiated this tension. He found that the tension was not

Image via Wikipedia There are just a couple of days left to get in your Knight News Challenge proposal. The deadline to apply for a slice of the $5m up for grabs is November 1 at midnight PDT. On Wednesday, I submitted my idea – Legacy2010.com: Helping Vancouver citizens understand how the Winter Olympics are changing the city. The 2010 Winter Games are a source of controversy in Vancouver. Supporters

Susan Mernit was in Vancouver on Monday for a Knight News Challenge meetup. Around 40 people were there to hear how to get a slice of the millions the Knight Foundation is investing in innovative projects from around the world. Susan explained that the Knight News Challenge is looking for four things in a proposal: It has to be innovative. But this can also be dependent on the geographic location

The 16 winners of the $5.5m Knight News Challenge have been announced, with the inventor of the web, Tim Berners-Lee, among the recipients. The full list of winners illustrates how people are tapping into emerging trends in digital media to revitalise the news environment. Several projects – Free Fone, The News is Coming, News on Cellphones – focus developing mobiles as platforms for news, especially in parts of the world