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Retha Hill and Len Downie, professors at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism, discuss the digital future with ASU law professor Joel Garreau. Photo by Molly J. Smith.
Michael Maness with the Knight Foundation introduces the winners of round three of the Knight News Challenge. Photo by Molly J. Smith.
Kacie Kinzer with TKOH, a tool for recording oral histories by combining sound and photographs. The project is one of the winners of the round three of the Knight News Challenge. Photo by Molly J. Smith.
Knight News Challenge: Health awarded prizes to 7 winning projects at the Clinton Health Matters conference in La Quinta, Calif.
Knight News Challenge: Health awarded prizes to 7 winning projects at the Clinton Health Matters conference in La Quinta, Calif.
Knight News Challenge: Health awarded prizes to 7 winning projects at the Clinton Health Matters conference in La Quinta, Calif.
Knight News Challenge: Health awarded prizes to 7 winning projects at the Clinton Health Matters conference in La Quinta, Calif.
Winners: Mohamed Nanabhay and Haroon Meer
Twitter: @mohamed @haroonmeer
Oneliner: To help newsrooms optimize editorial decision making by providing a dashboard that tracks stories through social networks and across competitor sites.
With newsrooms stretched for resources, editors have to increasingly make difficult decisions about which stories get covered and promoted. Signalnoi.se
aims to help, by tracking social engagement with the news - scanning social network activity to provide real-time information on what’s resonating with readers. Editors are able to track their own - and competitors’ - stories. Signalnoi.se will sort not just headlines but news topics – to spot trends and spikes in interest. Mohamed Nanabhay, former Head of Online at Al Jazeera English, saw the potential for providing richer editorial analytics to newsrooms while leading his organizations’ award-winning coverage of the Arab Spring. He co-foundedSignalnoi.se with Haroon Meer to extract the signal from the noise and close the loop between what audiences are interested in and what editors focus resources on.
Winners: Caitria O’Neill, Alvin Liang and Morgan O’Neill
Twitter: @recovers_org
Oneliner: To help communities recover from disasters by creating a dashboard that acts as a central hub for recovery efforts.
Summary: When a tornado touched down in her Massachusetts yard, Caitria O'Neill and her neighbors struggled to match the sudden wave of resources with massive community needs. While large aid organizations can deliver significant resources, in each disaster untrained local volunteers must help structure unofficial resources long-term. O'Neill and her sister Morgan O’Neill teamed up with engineer Alvin Liang to create Recovers.org, and to build and deliver web tools and local hubs for disaster recovery efforts. Their online organizing platform, located at [townname.recovers.org], can be launched before or immediately after an event, to turn interest into aid. Already their platform has helped turn the spike in interest post-disaster into money, items and volunteers in five communities. Post-disaster launches are pro-bono, but the team licenses the software to areas interested in preparing and enabling the community's response.
practicing some short pitches for broadcaster/twvee/public newsroom for knight news challenge application
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practicing some short pitches for broadcaster/twvee/public newsroom for knight news challenge application
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Winners: Adriano Farano and Jonathan Lundell of UXNOVO
Twitter: @watchup @farano
Oneliner: To make it easier to find and watch high quality video news through a new iPad app
Summary: Available starting today in the iTunes store, Watchup is an iPad application that will help people find high-quality news videos. While identifying relevant content is often time-consuming, Watchup speeds the process with a curated playlist that aggregates news reports from a variety of networks into a simple interface. The service plans to sustain itself by selling video advertising on the site. Media organizations, which will have a branded presence on Watchup, will ultimately receive a share of the revenues.
Winner: Andrew Lewman and Karen Reilly of Tor
Twitter: @torproject, @akareilly
Oneliner: To protect journalists and their sources worldwide by providing them with a toolkit to preserve their anonymity online.
Summary: With world press freedom in decline for the past decade, journalists and their sources are often threatened by governments, criminal organizations and others who monitor their mobile and online communication to see who is talking to the press. To help protect reporters and their sources, the Tor Project will use its vast network of volunteers to create a toolkit for journalists. The kit will include Tor Project’s existing secure web browser and anonymous upload utility, along new tools and training videos.
Winners: Nadav Aharony, Alan Gardner and Cody Sumter of Behav.io
Twitter: @behav_io, @nadavaha, @alan_gardner and @codys
Oneliner: To help people and communities make better use of data collected by mobile phones
Summary: Behavio wants to open access to, and help make sense of, the data routinely collected by mobile phones. Their open source Android platform turns phones into smart sensors of people's real world behaviors and surroundings: how people use their phones, how they communicate with others, and environmental factors like sound, light and motion. As a result, Behavio can understand trends and behavior changes in individuals as well as entire communities, and help them understand and make use of this information. With News Challenge funding, Behavio will create a software development kit for programmers to build apps with smarter sensors; build a set of tools for journalists and others who want to see trends in community data; and launch a mobile application that allows individuals to explore data about their lives.
Winners: Nadav Aharony, Alan Gardner and Cody Sumter of Behav.io
Twitter: @behav_io, @nadavaha, @alan_gardner and @codys
Oneliner: To help people and communities make better use of data collected by mobile phones
Summary: Behavio wants to open access to, and help make sense of, the data routinely collected by mobile phones. Their open source Android platform turns phones into smart sensors of people's real world behaviors and surroundings: how people use their phones, how they communicate with others, and environmental factors like sound, light and motion. As a result, Behavio can understand trends and behavior changes in individuals as well as entire communities, and help them understand and make use of this information. With News Challenge funding, Behavio will create a software development kit for programmers to build apps with smarter sensors; build a set of tools for journalists and others who want to see trends in community data; and launch a mobile application that allows individuals to explore data about their lives.
Winners: Nadav Aharony, Alan Gardner and Cody Sumter of Behav.io
Twitter: @behav_io, @nadavaha, @alan_gardner and @codys
Oneliner: To help people and communities make better use of data collected by mobile phones
Summary: Behavio wants to open access to, and help make sense of, the data routinely collected by mobile phones. Their open source Android platform turns phones into smart sensors of people's real world behaviors and surroundings: how people use their phones, how they communicate with others, and environmental factors like sound, light and motion. As a result, Behavio can understand trends and behavior changes in individuals as well as entire communities, and help them understand and make use of this information. With News Challenge funding, Behavio will create a software development kit for programmers to build apps with smarter sensors; build a set of tools for journalists and others who want to see trends in community data; and launch a mobile application that allows individuals to explore data about their lives.
Winners: Felipe Heusser and Jeff Warren
Twitter: @fheusser
Oneliner: To empower people to share breaking news by creating a searchable map of events streamed around the world.
Summary: Livestreaming breaking news has proven its potential - but hasn’t yet reached it. Peepol.tv aims to change that by creating a streamlined platform for posting, finding and watching livestreams from around the world. The Peepol.tv team will build a searchable map, aggregate streams from other sources, create topic curation and add features like music and social media interaction. The idea grew from a mini-media innovation challenge at last year’s MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference.
Winners: Mohamed Nanabhay and Haroon Meer
Twitter: @mohamed @haroonmeer
Oneliner: To help newsrooms optimize editorial decision making by providing a dashboard that tracks stories through social networks and across competitor sites.
With newsrooms stretched for resources, editors have to increasingly make difficult decisions about which stories get covered and promoted. Signalnoi.se
aims to help, by tracking social engagement with the news - scanning social network activity to provide real-time information on what’s resonating with readers. Editors are able to track their own - and competitors’ - stories. Signalnoi.se will sort not just headlines but news topics – to spot trends and spikes in interest. Mohamed Nanabhay, former Head of Online at Al Jazeera English, saw the potential for providing richer editorial analytics to newsrooms while leading his organizations’ award-winning coverage of the Arab Spring. He co-foundedSignalnoi.se with Haroon Meer to extract the signal from the noise and close the loop between what audiences are interested in and what editors focus resources on.
Placeblogger wins Knight 21st Century News Challenge Award
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