OAKLAND — Youth Radio received an award over the weekend for investigative journalism at the annual Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc. conference in Las Vegas. The award was for a series aired on NPR's "All Things Considered" titled, "In the Kennel: Uncovering a Navy Unit's Culture of Abuse."
eBay founder Pierre Omidyar is starting an online news service in Hawaii. Subscribers will pay $19.99 a month to gain access to Civilbeat.com which launched on Wednesday. At a time when traditional and new media organizations are struggling to find a business model for online news, will Omidyar's model work? What do you think?
The "Knight Foundation":http://www.knightfoundation.org/ today announced the "award winners":http://www.newschallenge.org/winners/ of its innovation prize, "The News Challenge":http://www.newschallenge.org/. I've been following the challenge and was very curious to see who they would ultimately fund--the list of folks is downright impressive.
What do I like about what the good folks at Knight did?
