2010 Knight News Challenge - Deadline Oct. 15

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is accepting applications for the 2010 Knight News Challenge, a contest awarding as much as $5 million for innovative ideas using digital experiments to transform community news.

Do you have a big idea for informing and inspiring a geographic community? Does it include innovative use of new digital tools or processes such as social media, mash-ups or wikis?  How about new ways to exchange information via hand-held devices like cell phones? 

Knight Foundation wants to know.

Open to community-minded innovators worldwide, the contest has just three rules. Projects must use digital, open-source technology, distribute news in the public interest and be tested in a local community.

To apply, or for more information, visit www.newschallenge.org