[Foundation-l] wikinews and Knight News Challenge
Samuel Klein
sj at laptop.org
Mon Sep 24 12:28:42 UTC 2007
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, shi zhao wrote:
> The Knight News Challenge is a contest run by the John S. and James L.
> Knight Foundation, which has earmarked $25 million over a five-year
> period. As much as $5 million will be given away this year. Anyone can
> apply.
>
> Wikinews can apply?
>
> see http://www.newschallenge.org/main_e.html
Wikinews can certainly apply. Wikipedia could also apply, considering
its poewrful pickup of news items -- both very different from, and useful
in different ways than, standard news media.
I believe some wikinews-related groups applied last year...
SJ
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