The 16 winners of the $5.5m Knight News Challenge have been announced, with the inventor of the web, Tim Berners-Lee, among the recipients.
The full list of winners illustrates how people are tapping into emerging trends in digital media to revitalise the news environment.
Several projects – Free Fone, The News is Coming, News on Cellphones – focus developing mobiles as platforms for news, especially in parts of the world where much of the population has not easy access to a computer or the net.
Other projects, such as Transparent Journalism led by Berners-Lee and Martin Moore, aim to build on the rise of tagging, to develop a system to provide an additional layer of information to news stories.
Spot Journalism is going to experiment with micro-payments as a way of paying for investigative journalism, while Reporting On aims to use social networking technologies to allow journalists working on similar topics will be able to communicate and share ideas.
In contrast to last year, more than a third of the winners were from outside the US. Ten came from the United States, and six were from Canada, England, Lithuania, South Africa, Russia and Zimbabwe.
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