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Spot.us Even More Impressive Than On First Glance

February 10, 2009 – 11:17 pm

It is no secret that I love startup Spot.us.  I met Dave as a fellow screener for the Knight News Challenge (really take a look at applying for next year!) and I was excited about his project.
I was reading a great article from the LA Times today (that almost hit the digg frontpage) and then [...]

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Knight News Foundation Screeners Meeting in Miami

November 16, 2008 – 12:58 pm

Miami in mid November is one of the best decisions I have made this year.  Warm sand at night, cuban food to write home about and this little thing called the Knight Foundation.

12 of the screeners for this years challenge gathered to screen applications, almost finishing the over 3000 application pile.  It has been interesting [...]

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Apply to the Knight News Challenge

October 17, 2008 – 11:55 am

I am a screener (read: judge of sorts) for this, if I know you, I won’t be able to look at your application.

Alright, November 1, 2008 is the last day you can submit an application to the Knight News Challenge.
$5,000,000 is being given away to fund innovative ideas that address the following points:

Use or create [...]

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Knight News Challenge 2008

September 9, 2008 – 3:57 pm

Susan Mernit asked me to be a News Challenge Screener for the Knight News Challenge. My first thought was ‘huh?’ My seccond thought was ‘no way!’ My third though was ‘this program is really, really cool.”
So what is this?
the $5 million Knight initiative to fund digitally innovative ideas in local news delivery
It is through [...]

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