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Knight Foundation to provide funding for digital media ideas
Do you have an idea that uses digital media, involves new forms of news in the public interest, and focuses on a specific geographic community? If you answered yes to all of the questions above, then your idea is eligible for funding from the Knight Foundation. Submission deadline: October 15.
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation will award a total of US$5 million to individuals, organizations or businesses from any country to implement a project that will transform community news.
Applications for the “Knight News Challenge” can be submitted from July 1. Winners will be announced in the first half of 2008.
The Knight Foundation promotes journalism excellence worldwide and invests in the vitality of 26 communities where the Knight brothers owned newspapers. The Knight Foundation supports ideas and projects that create transformational change.
For more information and to register, visit http://www.newschallenge.org/home.php or contact newschallenge@knightfdn.org.
To see a list of the 2006 winners, click here: http://www.newschallenge.org/winners/.
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