Knight News Challenge presentation 0428

JOSE ZAMORA

DIGITAL MEDIA

NEWS AND INFORMATION

GEOGRAPHIC DETERMINED AREA

• Four years of the contest• Around 9,500 applications• 50 projects

• First year – 1,600 applications

• Second year – 3,300 applications

• Important trends:

• Third year – 2,223 applications

• Fourth year – 2,364 applications

• A few stats on the last three years of the contest:

2007

37%

14%

49%

U.S. Intl. YC

2008

27%

13%

60%

U.S. Intl. YC

2009

69%

13%

31%

U.S. Intl. YC

THE FUTURE

Lessons Learned:

Next steps:•Increase and foster the Knight News Challenge Community (MIT)

Next steps:

•Release and promote open-source code

Next steps:•Knight News Testing Labs approach – see what works best in your organization or town and make it accessible. (Plug&play)

THANK [email protected]

@jczamora