Knight News Challenge Applications (Almost) Due

While some journalists will be celebrating spring (and pseudo-Irish heritage) with green beers this weekend, others with an eye on the future and a big idea will have to postpone revelry until they finish polishing off their Knight News Challenge applications due Saturday. This annual contest culls the next great (or potentially great) idea that will use existing platforms to produce and present news in new useful ways. This year's theme is "networks," though the definition of that has been somewhat broadly defined. The winners will share part of the $5 million pot put up by the Knight Foundation to support journalistic digital innovation. To get an idea of (or derive inspiration from) what's won in the past, read about the 2011 winners. The deadline for the first round of the contest is Saturday, March 17, and finalists will be named by April 2. Which gives you a few short days to answer the seven short questions on the submission page. The basic questions cover your project cost and scope, as well as the basics of how it would work and why it's needed. (Take heart, if this deadline approached too soon, you can enter a later round.) As 10,000 Words previously discussed, the KNC is accepting entries via Tumblr this year. So, although winners won't be announced until June, you can check out some of the dozens of applications already submitted to get an idea for the breadth of ideas (and in some cases similarity of ideas) among this year's entrants. In fact, the Knight Foundation made it clear they want to see some discussion about these ideas on the tumblr and online, so even if you don't have an idea for this round, why not pop over and enter some feedback on the ideas that you love (or don't) to help those projects gain some favor.

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Knight News Challenge Applications (Almost) Due

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