Applicants have two extra months to apply to the contest sponsored by the John F. and James L. Knight Foundation. The Knight News Challenge will award up to $5 million for ideas that use digital experiments to transform community news.
The Knight News Challenge is open to innovators worldwide and has three rules. “Projects must use digital, open-source technology, distribute news in the public interest and be tested in a local community.”
The contest, now its fourth year, has chosen 35 winners from 7,000 entries. Those projects included winners in their 20s, the inventor of the World Wide Web, and the hyper-local news experiment Everyblock.com, which MSNBC.com recently bought.
See lists of Knight News Challenge winners from 2007, 2008, and 2009.
Applicants can enter under the “open" category, which allows the public to view and comment on their submissions, or the “closed” category, for those who are not ready to make their ideas public.
For more information, see the Knight Foundation program staff describe the News Challenge in a video, and read the FAQ.
Applications are available here.
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