Knight News Challenge Information Session
The Knight News Challenge is a contest to spur innovation in the delivery of information and news using digital media.
The challenge rewards innovative ideas that develop platforms, tools, and services to inform and transform community news, conversations, and information distribution and visualization. Whether it’s election coverage, crime statistics, little league scores, road conditions or anything else, the Knight News Challenge is looking for smart, innovative solutions that connect people with the news and information that matters most to them.
Jennifer 8. Lee, a consultant to the Knight News Challenge, will be on hand to discuss and answer questions about the $25-million grant competition, which opens in mid-October. For the 2010 round, the News Challenge received over 2,300 applications and gave out 12 grants totaling $2.74 million. Come ask questions and learn about past projects, common mistakes, and what trends the Knight News Challenge has seen. Some interesting areas in the news space include user experience, urban sensors, and open-source mobile frameworks.
Refreshments will be served.
Jennifer 8. Lee is a journalist who is currently focused on investments in the frontiers of news and information in communities, largely through the Knight News Challenge. She started as a New York Times reporter at age 24, and worked there for nine years covering technology, politics, crime, among other topics. She is author of "The Fortune Cookie Chronicles," a book on Chinese food in America which led her to speak Mandarin on "The Colbert Report". NPR has called her a "conceptual scoop artist," in part because her story that popularized the concept of the "man date." Jenny graduated from Harvard College with a degree in applied math and economics. She was listed in the 2003 Esquire "Women We Love" issue and has a purple hippo named Hubba Bubba whose adventures can be found at roaminghubba.com.
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