Finaliza la segunda ronda del Knight News Challenge

The Nieman Journalism Lab ofrece un resumen con las páginas más visitadas y votadas en la segunda ronda del concurso de innovación en medios digitales Knight News Challenge e información sobre la actual fase del concurso. Entre los proyectos más visitados y votados se encuentra "Post Your Tweet Local", presentado por Oimed, que ha recibido más de 1.700 visitas y se sitúa en cuarto lugar por votos en el ranking. De las aproximadamente 2500 candidaturas iniciales, cerca de quinientas fueron seleccionadas para la segunda ronda. En breve se conocerán los finalistas y en junio se darán a conocer las propuestas ganadoras.

Más visitados

1. WikiLeaks localization — a request for $532,000 to fund an expansion of the whistleblowers’ platform to the local level
2. Names Behind the Numbers — $100,000 for “a project that gives a human face to the statistics” of deaths in poor parts of Washington, D.C.
3. Hollaback! — $100,000 to build a platform for women to easily report street harassment
4. 1,000 Flipcams in Newark — $500,000 to give camcorders to city residents and assemble their work into a massive video wall
5. WhoWhatNow — $250,000 for a citizen journalism platform built for news editors seeking local content
6. Post Your Tweet Local — $80,000 for an app in Spain to make local information sharing easier
7. Networked Journalism Schools — $3,000,000 to build a platform for j-schools to combine student and citizen reporting
8. Community Cartography — $75,000 for a “nomadic workshop” to map South American indigenous communities
9. HabitatMap — $100,000 for a crowdsourced mapping system for urban neighborhoods
10. PaperNews — $180,000 for a software package that would make story design within web templates easier and more beautiful

Más valorados

1. WikiLeaks
2. Networked Journalism Schools
3. PRX Story Market — $75,000 to build a marketplace for local public radio stations to pitch and bid on stories
4. Post Your Tweet Local
5. La Frontera Sun — $400,000 for a mobile, bilingual information-sharing service in the Tucson/Nogales region
6. Suruk — $90,000 for a mobile app for commuters in the urban developing world
7. Nonprofit Mapping Project — $300,000 for data visualization of information about nonprofits
8. Seward Profile News Online — $88,650 for a model hyperlocal site that can be easily duplicated
9. Data Inside + Out — $200,000 for a data visualization project promoting social relevance
10. Twin Ports Commonwealth Cooperative — $1,200,000 for a community cooperative platform for citizen journalism