E-Media Tidbits

In May 2007 the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation announced its first round of News Challenge grants -- a program that supports "innovative ideas for using digital news and information to build and bind community in specific geographic areas."

This special E-Media Tidbits series takes a close look at each of the winning projects and ideas. We focus on what's journalistically new or different about each project, how the grantees are getting started, why they think they were selected, likely opportunities and pitfalls -- and questions that the grantees have for news media pros.

1. May 30: Knight News Challenge Winners: What Are They Doing? Series intro.
2. June 1: Universal Geotagging: Where Are You? Interview with Lisa Williams of Placeblogger.
3. June 4: News Challenge: What Knight Wants in Year Two. Interview with Knight Foundation Journalism Programs Officer Gary Kebbel.
4. June 7: Where's Your News? Finding User-Created Content. Interview with Carnegie Mellon informations systems undergradute Daniel Schultz.
5. June 7: Training 75 Citizen Journalists in Chicago. Interview with Chi-Town Daily News editor Geoff Dougherty.
6. June 8: EveryBlock: One-Stop Shop for Local Info. Interview with online news pioneer Adrian Holovaty.
7. June 11: Rising Voices: Closing the Participation Gap. Interview with David Sasaki, director of outreach for Global Voices Online.
8. June 14: Fun, Games and News. Interview with Gail Robinson of Gotham Gazette.
9. June 15: Drafting a Blueprint for the Newsroom of the Future. Interview with business reporter Chris O'Brien.
10. June 18: MyJo Mojo at MTV: Youth Citizen Journalism. Interview with MTV's Ian Rowe.
11. June 20: Techies Go to J-School: Interview with Medill prof. Rich Gordon.
12. June 21: Building a Better Citizen Media Toolbox. Interview with JD Lasica.
13. June 26: Sustainable Expert Community Wanted, about Boulder Carbon Tax Tracker.
14. June 27: Connecting Content in a Miscellaneous World, about the Drupal Related Items module.
15. June 28: Oakland: Video Game Aims to Revive Community. Interview with UC Berkeley prof. Paul Grabowicz.
16. July 3: ASU: New Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship. Interview with Cronkite J-school dean Chris Callahan.
17. July 10: VillageSoup: From Community News to Community Host. Interview with Richard Anderson.
18. July 16: Playing Along with News Stories. Interview with Nora Paul.
19. July 19: Legal Resource for Citizen Journalists. Interview with David Ardia.