The Knight News Challenge enables innovators to pursue their dreams and experiment with news and information projects.
KNIGHT NEWS CHALLENGE WINNERS advance the future of news by launching new ways to digitally inform local communities.
For the 2011 challenge, four new categories were chosen to help harness and accelerate the entrepreneurial energy in the field. They are: Mobile, Authenticity, Sustainability and Community.
If you want to take part in the $5 million annual Knight News Challenge contest no matter who or where you are. Any individual, organization or company can apply, worldwide Deadline is end of this month so get those ideas submitted.
THERE ARE JUST THREE RULES: Projects must: 1) Use digital, open-source technology to 2) Distribute news in the public interest and 3) Fit into one of the four categories.