Let’s play oddsmaker for a moment. I’m unaware of any sports books offering prop bets on who’ll win the 2010 Knight News Challenge. We’re still early in the application process, and wannabe grantees must still navigate a multi-layer...

The sad-spin headline might be this: “Dreams of 2,000 journalists crushed.” But when you have nearly 2,500 applications for what at most will become a few dozen Knight News Challenge grants, there’s necessarily plenty of disappointm...

KnightFoundation.org To answer that question, the Knight Foundation consulted past challenge judges, entrepreneurs and technologists. It also studied other news innovation contests, then published this report [PDF]....

The Knight News Challenge may be one of the most exciting new traditions in journalism...but it can also be one of the most overwhelming. So many entrants, so many awesome projects, so many great ideas.... And while we tend to be mo...

How big a role will foundation funding for local news and information play in the continuing evolution of local media? An ever-increasing one, it appears. The Knight Community Information Challenge announced last week 24 winners of ...

Updated: The Knight Foundation’s Information Challenge just announced 24 winners who will split $4.3 million in grant funding to pursue innovative community journalism projects. There’s a neighborhood news service for Detroit kids ...

From a pool of 2,364 applications, the Knight News Challenge just announced the 24 winners who will split $4.3 million in grant funding. Most of the winners are local news efforts with an emphasis on service, from a neighborhood n...

California Watch, a project of the Center for Investigative Reporting, is the latest recipient of Knight Challenge grant money to go live. The nonprofit news site boasts an admirably bold mission statement that makes them sound lik...

[EDITOR'S NOTE: We're highlighting a few of the entries in this year's Knight News Challenge, which just closed Tuesday night. Did you know of an entry worth looking at? Email Mac or leave a brief comment on this post. —Josh] You ma...

[EDITOR'S NOTE: We're highlighting a few of the entries in this year's Knight News Challenge, which just closed Tuesday night. Did you know of an entry worth looking at? Email Mac or leave a brief comment on this post. —Josh] Laura ...

We’ll have to wait another six months to find out who wins 2010 Knight News Challenge grants, but early data does reveal one key thing: the future of journalism has an abundance of ideas. Nearly 2,500 of them, all told. The News Cha...

[EDITOR'S NOTE: We're highlighting a few of the entries in this year's Knight News Challenge, which just closed Tuesday night. Did you know of an entry worth looking at? Email Mac or leave a brief comment on this post. —Josh] Jackie...

[EDITOR'S NOTE: We're highlighting a few of the entries in this year's Knight News Challenge, which just closed Tuesday night. Did you know of an entry worth looking at? Email Mac or leave a brief comment on this post. —Josh] Former...

[EDITOR'S NOTE: The Knight News Challenge closed submissions for the 2010 awards last night at midnight, which means that another batch of great ideas, interesting concepts, and harebrained schemes gave their chance to convince the ...

Over at MediaShift’s Idea Lab blog, where as a Knight News Challenge grantee I’m posting occasionally, I’ve published a discussion of an interesting problem we’re grappling with at MediaBugs: How do you organize a set of categories ...

This episode of 5Across is brought to you by the Knight News Challenge, a 5-year, $25 million contest to spur innovation in news. If you'd like to apply to win a grant of up to $5 million for an open source project, apply here by Oc...

> Duluth paper satisfies Vikings and Packers fans > Baseball writers at MLB.com do good work, but... > Conservatives to launch Nevada News Bureau > "We blew it, plain and simple," admits Capital editor > Knight News Challenge grant ...

Nieman Journalism Lab Mac Slocum reports the 2010 Knight News Challenge includes a private submission option, which allows proposals to remain secret from the date of submission until the News Challenges winners are announced in Jun...

You’ve still got two weeks to come up with the brilliant idea that’ll save journalism — or, to be more realistic, an idea that’ll earn some Knight Foundation cash and let you try something new and innovative. And unlike last year, y...