Knight News Challenge application deadline extended to Dec. 15

The Knight Foundation has extended the application deadline for its News Challenge to Dec. 15. Ideas for innovations in journalism were due Oct. 15.

For details on how to apply, go to www.newschallenge.org.

About the News Challenge
The 2010 Knight News Challenge is the fourth year of a contest awarding as much as $5 million a year for innovative ideas that develop platforms, tools and services to inform and transform community news, conversations and information distribution and visualization.

Knight Foundation plans to invest at least $25 million over five years in the search for bold community news and social media experiments.

For the 2009 contest, nine winners were awarded close to $2 million.
(Source: Knight Foundation)

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Sanjay Bhatt jumped into journalism in 1996, landing his first job at The Times Leader, a daily in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. He juggled covering 12 school districts and loved turning out enterprising, investigative pieces. Within a year, he got hired by The Palm Beach Post of West Palm Beach, Fla., where he spent the next six years building a reputation as a top health reporter. The biggest story he covered there was the 2001 anthrax investigation. In 2003, he joined The Seattle Times, where he has examined public schools, neighborhood issues, the economic crisis and local government. He enjoys producing mini-documentaries, trying new ideas online and learning new technologies. View all posts by sbhatt →