Wanted: Innovative Digital Media Projects

For techies who have bright ideas on how to "transform community news," this is your chance to get funding for what you have in mind. I guess I should start learning more about web design and related stuff:-)

Do you have an idea that uses digital media, involves new forms of news in the public interest, and focuses on a specific geographic community? If you answered yes to all of the questions above, then your idea is eligible for funding from the Knight Foundation. Submission deadline: October 15.

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation will award a total of US$5 million to individuals, organizations or businesses from any country to implement a project that will transform community news.

Applications for the “Knight News Challenge” can be submitted from July 1 until December 31. Winners will be announced in the first half of 2008.

The Knight Foundation promotes journalism excellence worldwide and invests in the vitality of 26 communities where the Knight brothers owned newspapers. The Knight Foundation supports ideas and projects that create transformational change.

Read more about the Knight Foundation's project here here.