Do you have a big idea for informing and inspiring a geographic community? Does it include innovative use of new digital tools or processes such as social media, mash-ups or wikis? How about new ways to exchange information via hand-held devices like cell phones? Knight Foundation wants to know. “You invent it. We fund it!” is the 2010 contest slogan.
Knight Foundation is accepting applications now, the deadline is Dec. 15. The 2010 Knight News Challenge will award as much as $5 million for innovative ideas using digital experiments to transform community news. To learn more about the contest visit http://www.newschallenge.org/index.html. To apply visit http://www.newschallenge.org/apply.