Posts Tagged ‘Knight-Batten Awards’

Knight News Challenge grant proposals: Technically Philly and NEast Philly

With an Oct. 15 deadline looming, I’ve had my hand in two submissions requesting funds from the Knight Foundation’s News Challenge program.
One I wrote in conjunction with Shannon McDonald, requesting $40,000 to launch a Neighborhood Correspondents program for NEast Philly, a hyperlocal news site for Northeast Philadelphia.
The second was a proposal from the three of [...]

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Technically Philly vies for Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism

Update: We lost.
Grant money in journalism is flowing freely in a tightened economy and a historic juncture in print media.
Seems like an opportunity.
So, my two partners and I, who founded Technically Philly, applied for the Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism, a $10,000 grant to support new ideas in news. See our submission here.
We thought [...]

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