This already all over the web, but just in case you missed it, the big Knight News Challenge grant winners have been announced. MIT’s Media Lab pulled in the biggest fish with a whopping $5 million that they will use to “create the Center for Future Civic Media, a leadership project designed to encourage community news experiments and new technologies and practices.” MIT recognizes the evolution of the “Fifth Estate where everyone is able to pool their knowledge, share experience and expertise, and speak truth to power.” The other giant winner was wunderkind Adrian Holovaty, who is quitting his dream job at the Washington Post to launch Everyblock.com with the $1.1 million grant he received. Hat tips to LR friends who also had paydays big and small, including Amy Garhan, J.D. Lassica, Rich Gordon, and Jay Rosen.
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