{"id":1427,"date":"2012-09-20T10:41:56","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T14:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ona12.journalists.org\/?p=1427"},"modified":"2012-09-20T10:41:56","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T14:41:56","slug":"knight-data-challenge-winners-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ona12.journalists.org\/2012\/09\/20\/knight-data-challenge-winners-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Knight Data Challenge Winners Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 Six media innovation ventures that make it easier to access and use information on local communities, air quality, elections, demographics and more received a total of $2.22 million today as winners of the <a href=\"http:\/\/newschallenge.tumblr.com\">Knight News Challenge: Data<\/a>, announced at the <a href=\"http:\/\/ona12.journalists.org\">2012 Online News Association Conference<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The data challenge, one of three launched by the <a href=\"http:\/\/knightfoundation.org\">John S. and James L. Knight Foundation<\/a> this year, accelerates projects with funding and advice from Knight\u2019s network of media innovators. For the data round, Knight Foundation sought ideas that make the large amounts of information produced each day available, understandable and actionable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe winning projects go well beyond collecting data to unlocking its value in simple and powerful ways, so journalists can analyze numbers and trends, and communities can make decisions on issues important to them,\u201d said Michael Maness, vice president for journalism and media innovation at Knight Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>The winners of the challenge will present their projects via <a href=\"http:\/\/ona12.journalists.org\/sessions\/lightning-round-knc-data\/\">live Web stream <\/a>at 4 p.m. EDT\/1 p.m. PDT Saturday, Sept. 22, from the Online News Association conference in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>Knight Foundation, the nation\u2019s leading funder of journalism and media innovation, is committed to promoting democracy by supporting informed and engaged communities. Founded by newsmen John S. and James L. Knight, the foundation launched the Knight News Challenge in 2007 to find the next generation of innovations that help communities get the information they need.<\/p>\n<p>The News Challenge is taking place three times this year, in shorter, more focused rounds that better mirror the pace of innovation. Winners of the first challenge, on networks, were announced in June. The third challenge, on mobile, recently closed and winners will be presented in January.<\/p>\n<p>Over the challenge\u2019s six years, Knight Foundation has reviewed more than 14,400 applications and funded 86 projects for more than $29 million. Winners include leading Internet entrepreneurs, emerging media innovators and traditional newsrooms. Their projects have been adopted by large media organizations and are having an impact.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/home\">DocumentCloud<\/a>, which helps journalists analyze, annotate and publish original-source documents, is being used by more than 650 news organizations nationwide, and its open source code is the eighth and 30th most-watched on GitHub, a recent report found. Meanwhile, hNews, a project by Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee and the Media Standards Trust, has been integrated into more than 1,200 news sites. It allows readers to see the source of information in online articles.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more about the winning projects during the Web stream of the <a href=\"http:\/\/ona12.journalists.org\/sessions\/lightning-round-knc-data\/\">Lighting Round presentation at ONA12<\/a>, 4 p.m. EDT \/ 1 p.m. PDT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"start_time":0,"end_time":0,"moderators":[],"hashtag":[],"soundcloud":[],"scribble":[],"viafoura":[],"youtube":[],"vimeo":[],"facebook":[],"trint":[],"slideshare":[],"livestream":[],"resources":[],"video_embed":[],"first_name":"","last_name":"","title":"","organization":"","website":"","twitter":"","_sponsor_url":"","_sponsor_tagline":"","_sponsor_level":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[3],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paaWrX-n1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona12.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona12.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona12.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ona12.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ona12.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ona12.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona12.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ona12.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ona12.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}