Who’s building the hottest news media technologies in the world? Every year the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation takes on the challenge of judging from hundreds of entrants in the Knight News Challenge and selecting a small number of them to fund with up to $5 million in total backing.
This year 16 winners from 4 countries were selected and they are very consistent with cutting edge trends in the tech industry at large. They range from government accountability tracking systems to a tool that sends an SMS to people in water deprived areas when water is available. John S. Bracken runs the Foundation’s grant making in digital media and wrote today on the Knight blog that this year’s winners seemed to touch on three common themes: the rise of the hacker/data journalist, a broad interpretation of “news” and the need to make better sense of the stream.
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