Is this you? As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.
Claim your profile
Articles by Chris Sopher
Tips for submitting an awesome News Challenge application
Last year I read 2,546 applications for the Knight News Challenges on networks, data and mobile. Which means I read every application we received. At the risk of sounding like Dr. Seuss, I read them on a plane and on a train, in my living room and at the office, while drinking coffee and while eating dinner and frequently while sitting outside somewhere under the warm Miami sun.
Final call for applications on Open Gov: Six things you need to know about Knight News Challenge
About Knight News Challenge on Open Gov from Knight Foundation on Vimeo. *1:00 p.m. March 18 update: Please note due to a huge response the News Challenge site is temporarily down.
What’s next in Knight News Challenge: Health
Photo credit: Flickr user Lynn Friedman On Tuesday, we closed the Knight News Challenge: Health with 686 entries. Now we’re moving into the “feedback” phase where, through Sunday, a panel of readers and our team will review the applications, ask questions and give feedback. If you’re interested in the contest, we encourage you to do the same.
Opportunity for funding Open Gov, information tools in Knight Community Info Challenge
Getting funding through the Knight Community Information Challenge: A guide for innovators from Knight Foundation. The challenge runs through July 1, 2013. Many of us live in communities where a rather remarkable collision is taking place— talented civic leaders and technologists are working together to make government more open, responsive and efficient. Talented people have built dozens of innovative projects, from live transit tracking to neighborhood crime mapping to open spending data.
News Challenge to explore role of libraries in the digital age
Photo illustration made with images from Flickr users Thomas Hawk and Sourabh Rath. On Sept. 10, we’re opening the next News Challenge, on libraries. Our 12th News Challenge, it will build upon the 19 projects we funded with $3.47 million in June through the News Challenge that sought ideas to strengthen the Internet.
Seven projects win $2.2 million in Knight News Challenge: Health
Knight News Challenge: Health winners from Knight Foundation on Vimeo. In August we launched the 10th Knight News Challenge asking the question, “How can we harness data and information for the health of communities?” We received 686 entries when we ran the contest in September and chose the winners from 40 semifinalists. Overall, we felt this was the strongest field we’ve yet seen in the News Challenge. This News Challenge was different for us.
What’s next in Knight News Challenge: Health
On Tuesday, we closed the Knight News Challenge: Health with 686 entries. Now we’re moving into the “feedback” phase where, through Sunday, a panel of readers and our team will review the applications, ask questions and give feedback. If you’re interested in the contest, we encourage you to do the same.
Join us to brainstorm around News Challenge: Health
Photo credit: Flickr user prettywar-stl. Related: “There’s still time to brainstrom around News Challenge: Health” by Chris Sopher on Sept. 5, 2013.
Announcing key collaborators and details of Knight News Challenge: Health
Knight News Challenge: Health from Knight Foundation on Vimeo. Last month at the Civic Media Conference at the MIT Media Lab, we announced health as the theme of the next Knight News Challenge. Today we have the details: the collaborators we’ve brought together, the question we’ll be asking and our timeline.
Announcing Knight News Challenge: Health
Photo credit: Flickr user Guy Mayer July 30 update: “Announcing key collaborators and details of Knight News Challenge: Health” on KnightBlog.org. At the MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference, Knight Foundation Vice President of Journalism and Media Innovation Michael Maness just announced that the theme of the next News Challenge will be health.
40 ideas advance in News Challenge on Open Gov
Today we’re excited to announce 40 semifinalists in the Knight News Challenge on Open Gov. We received more than 880 submissions to the contest, which is focused on the question “How might we improve the way citizens and governments interact?” We received ideas from all over the world, from small projects for public land reuse to ambitious efforts to open millions of public datasets.
Tips for submitting an awesome News Challenge application
Last year I read 2,546 applications for the Knight News Challenges on networks, data and mobile. Which means I read every application we received. At the risk of sounding like Dr. Seuss, I read them on a plane and on a train, in my living room and at the office, while drinking coffee and while eating dinner and frequently while sitting outside somewhere under the warm Miami sun.
#newschallenge mobile winners exemplify the rate of innovation globally
Today, we announced the winners of the Knight News Challenge on mobile. They are eight fascinating projects we couldn’t be happier to support: Remote Access, RootIO, Abayima, Witness, TKOH, Textizen, WeFarmand Wikipedia. But here we want to share some other insights from the contest. The rise of mobile is an unprecedented opportunity to make it easier for people to learn about and get involved in the world around them. People are adopting new behaviors that put that goal within reach.
Winners of News Challenge: Data
Knight News Challenge: Data Winners from Knight Foundation on Vimeo. UPDATE: Watch the winners present their projects via web stream at 1 p.m. PDT/ 4 p.m. EDT Saturday Sept. 22 here. Today we’re excited to share with you the winners of the Knight News Challenge: Data. First, some background: We ran the contest for three weeks, ending June 20. And we sought ideas to help make the large amounts of data we’re creating more useful and informative.
Exploring what’s next in local news
Photo credit: Flickr user Eole This evening, we’re gathering 19 leading journalists, technologists and civic innovators in New Orleans to explore what’s next in local news. We’ll be focussing on what a local news organization designed today for 2013 would look like. This meeting builds on convenings we held we held each of the last two years. In 2010, we brought together the growing group of startup news organizations and we gathered a smaller group last year.
Show More
loading
Actions
Is this you?
As a journalist, you can create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile, list your contact preferences, and upload a portfolio of your best work.Get in touch with Chris
Contact Chris, search articles and posts on X, monitor coverage, and track replies from one place.
Learn more about Muck Rack