Journalism Program Associate Jose Zamora talks about the first four years of the Knight News Challenge and what Knight has learned from running such a contest. He also talks about spinoff contests such as the Knight Drupal Initiative and the Knight Community Information Challenge.

1. JOSE ZAMORA

2. DIGITAL MEDIA

3. NEWS AND INFORMATION

4. GEOGRAPHIC DETERMINED AREA

7. • Four years of the contest
• Around 9,500 applications
• 50 projects

8. • First year – 1,600 applications

9. • Second year – 3,300 applications

10. • Important trends:

11. • Third year – 2,223 applications

12. • Fourth year – 2,364 applications

13. • A few stats on the last three years of the contest:
2009
2007 2008
13%
13%
14%
49%
27% 31%
60%
37% 69%
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14. THE FUTURE

15. Lessons Learned:

16. Next steps:
•Increase and
foster the Knight
News Challenge
Community (MIT)

17. Next steps:
•Release and
promote open-
source code

18. Next steps:
•Knight News
Testing Labs
approach – see
what works best in
your organization or
town and make it
accessible.
(Plug&play)

19. THANK YOU!
zamora@knightfoundation.org
@jczamora