It's been a busy old week so I'm now trawling through 1200+ posts trying to make sense of everything that's been happening.
Anyway, a couple of posts one I spotted made me wonder what the UK is doing to encourage innovation and experimentation in the media industry.
Firstly, I read about the Knight News Challenge organised by the Knight Foundation (apologies to whoever blogged it - I forget where I first saw it). Now in its second year, the News Challenge is:
"a contest awarding as much as $5 million for innovative ideas using digital experiments to transform community news. Last year’s winners included a diverse collection of 25 individuals, private and public entities, ranging from MIT to MTV. The Foundation plans to invest at least $25 million over five years in the search for bold community news experiments."
And then Jeff Jarvis blogs about the exciting CUNY Networked Journalism Summit which has been made possible by a grant from the MacArthur Foundation.
Where are the Knight and MacArthur Foundations in the UK? And where are the exciting digital projects? I admit I have done no research so they may exist... but if so, where?
As a footnote it is definitely worth plugging a new venture launched by Lloyd Shepherd, Messy Media.
MM is a UK-based blog network providing quality editorial. According to Lloyd:
"We believe there’s a clear opportunity in Britain to use the blogging format to do proper journalism - to entertain and inform. Proper design, professional editorial development and a serious commercial proposition are all part of that."
Good luck, I say. Lloyd's quote and more besides comes via an interview with Simon Dickson.
*UPDATED* - More support for innovation announced by Jarvis:
"I’m delighted to announce that I’ve received a $100,000, two-year grant from the McCormick Tribune Foundation to provide seed funding to news start-ups developed by students in my course in entrepreneurial journalism at CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism. A jury of industry leaders from the media community in New York – experts in content, revenue, marketing, venture capital and startups – are speaking with the class, helping guide students through creating their proposals, and at the end they will select the projects (if any) likely of success as sustainable journalistic enterprises and deserving of investment from the fund. The full announcement is here.)"
Why is the UK equivilent?
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The word 'interview' is very generous... more like a snatched cup of Starbucks' finest. :)
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