The Knight News Challenge accelerates media innovation by funding breakthrough ideas in news and information. Winners receive a share of $5 million in funding and support from Knight’s network of influential peers and advisors to help advance their ideas.
Throughout 2012, innovators from all industries and countries are invited to participate in three challenge rounds, each with focused topics on emerging trends.
Round 1 - on networks - is closed, and the winners will be announced June 18.
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Details on Round 3 will available later this year.
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Develop alive.in/ as a social network for content from international video journalists, using our mobile app, and youtube directly.
GlobalVoices is similar, however, they focus on curating bloggers. Video is so essential to documenting recent, global events that video journalism will be the primary focus of alive.in/.
The Alive.in/ social network will leverage our existing brand to promote the power of networked citizen journalists. Filtering content from networked activists and journalists on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, regional coordinators sift through local language media and interact with original producers to improve their storytelling skills.
Alive.in/Egypt and Alive.in/Libya were hugely successful during 2011, seeing traffic increase ten times and bounce rates increase from 10% to more than 80% during major media events. What created this ongoing, sustainable success was not providing a channel for news — journalists have that — but fostering relationships with local producers and providing training on how to create better, more informative pieces. We believe our work harnesses what is currently missing in the Internet ecosystem: an international social network for citizen journalism that operates at the speed of trends & social media.
Small World News is a global team of journalists, developers, and educators. Brian Conley is an experienced trainer who has worked with hundreds of citizens in six countries, he will oversee our regional coordinators. Steve Wyshywaniuk oversees the design of training materials and content development. Rob Baker specializes in mobile technology, new media strategy and will lead technical development of the project. Regional coordinators will be selected from our network of students, to provide a broad capacity to curate and intake content from a variety of languages and regions.
Alive.in/ is a collection of ad-hoc, locally networked citizen journalists promoting their work online through websites we’ve established for them, some dating back to 2005. These pilot programs established best practices, produced hundreds of localized pieces, and honed the original training we’ve provided through connecting them under our brand. Knight’s funding will enable the creation of the first social network for citizen journalism, curating international video journalism in real-time to a single location, as well as leverage the Alive.in/ mobile app being developed to facilitate story generation and submissions.
It is our hope that by creating the first social network for citizen journalists and delivering better, television-quality output, we can sustain this project by taking a percentage of ad revenue and sales to news agencies before returning the majority to the members of the Alive.in/ network.
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Check out our first entry to Knight News Challenge 2012!
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Keep your fingers crossed for Small World News, we’re stepping up our game this year.
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