The Internet Archive recently launched an ambitious project to collect and index all broadcasts since the start of television. This week it got a major boost. Read more at paidContent »
A mobile sensor startup that launched from a former Google product manager for Android is already coming back to Google, announcing the acquisition on Friday. Read more »
Hyperlocal used to be a popular buzzword in media circles, but NBC says it has shut down one of the pioneers of the genre — data-driven startup EveryBlock — because it wasn’t a good fit with its core strengths. Read more at paidContent »
How can a design firm and a non-profit focusing on government transparency come together and make data look cool? The Sunlight Foundation and designers from IDEO teamed up to create Sitegeist, an app using location-based data to help you understand where you are. Read more »
Truth Teller is a prototype launched by the Washington Post — with funding from the Knight Foundation — that is designed to fact-check political speeches in real time. But can it do this? And will anyone care? Read more at paidContent »
Safecast, a group that mapped local grass roots radiation data in post-earthquake Japan, has won $400,000 from the Knight Foundation to do the same for air quality data in Los Angeles and other U.S. cities. Read more »
In the first round of its three-part News Challenge, the Knight Foundation has awarded $1.37 million to six startups who are trying to develop video, mobile and crowdsourced solutions to the problem of filtering the vast ocean of news that washes over us every day. Read more »
Taking a cue from technology incubators, a new project called Public Media Accelerator aims to nurture public service media startups. Read more at paidContent »
The Brooklyn Bureau, a nonprofit local news site with backing from the Knight Foundation, is now live. The site will focus on civic affairs… Read more at paidContent »
Even today, millions of American businesses are still offline — a situation that Texas startup Ownlocal is hoping to change, with new money and a fresh plan that could even help prop up embattled media companies along the way. Read more »
Students work for their college newspapers for all sorts of reasons–and while college papers are sheltered from the harsh realities facing… Read more at paidContent »
One of the themes running through many of the projects that won this year’s $5-million Knight News Challenge for media startups is the idea that data — and the ability to filter and make sense of it — can be a powerful tool for digital journalism. Read more »
Traditional media get a lot of flak for not being more forward-thinking about the web. Now the Knight Foundation and Mozilla have joined forces to try and give them some help, by setting up a $2.5-million fellowship that will “embed” developers and programmers in newsrooms. Read more »
The Knight Foundation announced the winners of its Knight News Challenge today, and the projects taking home some substantial prize money include the collaborative online video editor Stroome, an attempt to bring live video streaming to court rooms and a project utilizing user-generated content from soldiers. Read more »
