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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.
brainstorming for the Knight Challenge project for Media Management Class
go to www2.knightfdn.org/newschallenge/home.html for more info
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: 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.
Sally Buzbee, the newly-named chief of the AP's Washington bureau, works on developing stories after the midterm elections that will change the political landscape in the nation's capital, Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010, in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Jeffrey Warren, creator of GrassrootsMapping.org and fellow in the Center for Future Civic Media, shows Medill graduate student Manya Gupta the inexpensive materials (including a reel of fishing wire, a balloon or kite and a low-end Canon PowerShot camera), needed for citizen aerial photography of the Gulf oil spill. Gupta is one of the Knight Scholars with engineering backgrounds who are retooling themselves at Northwestern to be tech-savvy journalists.