The amazing, overwhelming Knight-Mozilla Fellowship applicants
It was great fun watching the applications to the Knight-Mozilla Fellowship roll in. People applied from all over the world. We got 102 more applications than last year. More women applied. More...
View ArticleCelebrating investment in OpenNews and the journalism code community
Today the Knight Foundation announced its renewed commitment to Knight-Mozilla OpenNews, with a $4 million grant. That's a whole lotta money. Big news. It's an investment not in a product, but in a...
View ArticleThe journalism presence at MozFest grows
October of all ofthethings ended with an extraordinary Mozilla Festival. We got to welcome 5 more Knight-Mozilla Fellows and had to create a whole new track to accommodate all of the excellent session...
View ArticleSmart people working on a tough problem: NICAR news apps archive designathon
Sometimes I look around the room at a conference and am just awed by the intelligence and energy and generosity of everyone in the room. The annual NICAR conference, to me, is one of the embodiments of...
View ArticleOpenNews at NICAR 2014
The lobby of the Marriott in downtown Baltimore is already crowded with news nerds and the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting annual conference has only just begun. A bunch of OpenNews...
View ArticleWhy you should attend SRCCON
It's hard to put into words how excited we are for our first conference, SRCCON! After seeing how well small group conversations and collaboration can work at the Mozilla Festival, we knew we had to...
View ArticleWho should apply to the Knight-Mozilla Fellowship? You.
The application deadline for the Knight-Mozilla Fellowship is this Saturday, August 16 at midnight. You may have already read the info on the website and caught up with what fellows have experienced,...
View ArticleJournalism & Data at MozFest: We want your session ideas
At the Mozilla Foundation's annual festival for the open web, OpenNews organizes two tracks of hands-on hacking and building focused on journalism and data. The call for proposals is open till August...
View ArticleRecruiting and selecting an amazing group of fellows
OpenNews has just announced the 2015 Knight-Mozilla Fellows. This is our fourth cohort of fellows and we've learned a lot the past few years about where to look for people who will challenge and...
View ArticleHeading to the AMC
I am so excited to be heading back to the Allied Media Conference this year. And not just that, but I get to facilitate a session with Knight-Mozilla Fellow alum Gabriela Rodriguez while two of our...
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