Last night, I was browsing this year’s public Knight News Challenge entries ahead of the midnight deadline to enter, and I caught myself thinking about what the project doesn’t fund when it comes to supporting journalism.
And the answer appears to be business models.
My friends at the Foundation might dispute this, or maybe not, but rather [...]
All about Knight News Challenge
What I would fund: An imaginary challenge for news business models
December 16, 2009
Notes on managing technology decisions
September 11, 2009
Over at the Knight News Challenge blog, I’ve contributed a short list of tips on dealing with developers and choosing a platform for your project:
“3. Hire human beings, not a programming language or Web framework. Unless you’re doing the programming yourself, stay focused on your end goal and steer clear of mandating how the humans [...]
Catch up or get left behind
September 2, 2009
I’ve been a nomad for a few days in the middle of a short-by-my-standards 300+ mile move from the suburbs of Rochester, NY to the suburbs of Washington D.C. and boy are my legs tired.
But I’m catching up on my reading, and found a few things to share with you on the theme of catching [...]
Announcing: ReportingOn 2.0 is live
July 2, 2009
ReportingOn 2.0 is live and ready for your questions. And answers.
It’s still the backchannel for your beat, but it’s an absolute re-imagining of the network.
For those of you who haven’t been keeping score, ReportingOn is a project funded by the Knight News Challenge, and it’s a place for journalists of all stripes to find [...]
Highlights from four days with my head in a blender full of wildly intelligent people
June 22, 2009
What follows is intended as a brief personal braindump from the four days I spent in Cambridge, Ma. last week, most of it deeply entrenched in the guts of #KNCMIT, a conference hosted by the MIT Center for Future Civic Media featuring Knight News Challenge winners from 2007-2009, and the announcement of this year’s winners.
Tuesday [...]