Knights News Challenge Winners

$15,000

to Paulding.com

Awarded to G. Patton Hughes [CEO, neomaxcom, LLC]
Blog: About making Paulding.com a financial success, from discussing practical aspects of building its revenue base from advertising and paid subscriptions, to sharing prior (and future) technical and strategic successes, failures, objections and issues.
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$15,000

to Community Media Toolset

Awarded to J.D. Lasica [Ourmedia.org]
Blog: About a Community Media Toolset that will provide publishers, editors and developers at citizen media sites with easy-to-use social media tools – plug-ins, scripts, guides and tutorials – to expand public participation.
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$15,000

to Beat Reporters & Social Networks

Awarded to Jay Rosen [Department of Journalism, New York University]
Blog: About how beat reporters can work with social networks to improve their reporting.
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$15,000

to Interactive Community Spaces

Awarded to Paul Lamb Leslie Rule [Principal, Man on a Mission Consulting and Co-Founder, Lambs on Love]
Blog: About the Interactive Community Spaces project, the use of GPS tracking to inform people through mobile media.
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$15,000

to Interactive Community Spaces

Awarded to Steven Clift [Board Chair, E-Democracy.org]
Blog:About The Ideas Factory, which will generate and share big ideas from the world of citizen engagement online via the Knight Foundation blog for innovators in online news and citizen media.
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