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Think You Have a Great News Idea? Knight Foundation Wants to Fund It

2009-09-02T15:20:29Z

The Knight Foundation has announced the launch of its 2009 Knight News Challenge, a contest that will award people with the best ideas for building the future of news media a total of $5 Million in support. The Challenge is riding high this year on news that a past winner, hyper-local news aggregator Everyblock, was just acquired by MSNBC.

Now in its 4th year, the Knight News Challenge has funded 35 news projects so far. The rules of the contest have changed this year in response to one of the biggest complaints of the past: projects can now be submitted privately to Knight judges and not be exposed to the public at large.

]]> The way we learn about the world around us is changing fast and radically. We're sure many of our readers have fantasized about a new type of online news project and we hope you'll take a shot at the Knight prize.

Comment from Marshall Kirkpatrick on 2009-09-04

2009-09-04T23:39:41Z

Think You Have a Great News Idea? Knight Foundation Wants to Fund It http://bit.ly/erjan [from http://twitter.com/marshallk/statuses/3713113472]

Comment from Bryan Person on 2009-09-03

2009-09-03T14:16:18Z

Marshall: I love what the Knight Foundation is doing in giving entrepreneurs and newsmakers the opportunity to innovate around online news reporting.

Like me, you were at the Gnomedex Conference in Seattle last month and probably followed the hacker news session with great interest. There were some thoughtful, useful ideas pitched that morning; now imagine if they were actually funded. Through the Knight Foundation, maybe they will be!

Comment from Jane on 2009-09-03

2009-09-03T12:18:32Z

I have a great idea...and one that would be linked to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for many countries. I assume I should go to the Knight Foundation site to get the details for submittal, right?

Comment from Hardik Upadhyay on 2009-09-03

2009-09-03T12:02:36Z

This is one of the good opportunity for the innovators who are looking for the good startups. I know the world is moving out of the recession but now the time has come to put shape to the ideas.

There are various startups happening around the place you can check out on my Blog or you can follow me on TWITTER

Comment from Martijn on 2009-09-03

2009-09-03T10:27:28Z

Am I the only one who can't help but think about an old TV show when reading about the "Knight Foundation" ? ;-)
(http://imdb.com/title/tt0083437/)

Comment from Marshall Kirkpatrick on 2009-09-02

2009-09-02T16:15:55Z

Htb that's the best idea I've heard yet!

Comment from Young on 2009-09-02

2009-09-02T16:14:27Z

Wow, 5 Million is big amount, how expensive an idea will be!

Comment from htb on 2009-09-02

2009-09-02T15:52:27Z

How's this for an idea? A souped up Trans-am with artificial intelligence in the form of a condescending robot voice and a Cylon eyeball in the grill?