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 the Knight Foundation and is a grant of sorts for an idea that is a) digital b) good for the community c) targeted on an actual area and d) innovative.
Pretty simple eh?
Here is a video of my travel. I am starting to try to love editing and shooting video (so this is bad, but I plan on making them better as time goes on).
Knight News Foundation 2008 from Andrew on Vimeo.
The pannelists are awesome, and include
and many, many more.
Great folks looking to give money to innovative ideas. Check out the Garage to meet cofounders and build upon your ideas!
I’m telling you about it. Tell your friends that you think need to know.
By knowing me, I can’t judge your application (just be aware of that). Feel free to ask me any questions, it is really a great program!
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