The Knight Foundation has announced six winners of the first round of this year’s Knight News Challenge. Past winners have been ambitious projects, broad in scope, many of them as part of major parent organizations in journalism. But at least in Round One, this year’s crop proposes fairly obvious ideas. It’s surprising that some of these haven’t been built already. Why does the Knight Foundation have to fund something as basic as a browsable map for live videos? There’s one clear answer: News organizations – for whatever reason – haven’t built them themselves.
This year, the foundation is holding three challenges to spur journalistic innovation in different areas. The first round, focused on networks, will award $1.37 million amongst six projects built on top of existing networks like
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