Drumbeat/MoJo

What is this? A three-year partnership between Knight and Mozilla to harness open web innovation for journalism. Through innovation challenges and 15 embedded fellows, we will yield new tools, ideas, and news experiences that benefit both readers and newsmakers—all using open technologies. Challenges are slated to open on April 25, 2011.

Learn more

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• FAQ
• Examples
• Background reading
• Roadmap
• The Team

Connect with MoJo

• Mailing list: sign up for the mailing list here
• Twitter hash tag: #Drumbeat#MoJo
• Chat room: #mojo on irc.mozilla.org
• Social media tracking: http://www.netvibes.com/drumbeatmojo
• Get involved at our Volunteer Mission Bank

What's New

We are gearing up to launch the 2011 Innovation Challenges

• Challenge 1 - How can we use open video make tell stories in new ways? (opens April 25)
• Challenge 2 - How can open web technology improve the quality of online discourse? (opens May 9)
• Challenge 3 - How can news organizations use HTML5 to deliver high-quality journalism across devices and platforms? (opens May 23)
  

The vision

Mozilla cares a lot about the future of news. Journalism and the open web are built on common values. And, like the web, the future of journalism lies in universal access and participation.

By this time next year, newsrooms around the globe will be tapping ideas, software—and, most importantly, people—that emerged from this partnership.

News should be universally accessible across phones, tablets, and computers. It should be multilingual. It should be rich with audio, video, and elegant data visualization. It should enlighten, inform, and entertain people, and it should make them part of the story.

For the next three years, we'll imagine and build stuff to advance the state of the art in web-based journalism. All that work will be open source, and available for others to use and build upon. Help us bring open web innovation to the news biz.

The news partners

These five organizations will host our 2011 fellows. Interested in hosting a fellow in 2012? Please read our selection criteria and get in touch!

	Al Jazeera English
	Al Jazeera English is a 24-hour news and current affairs channel, the first to broadcast across the globe from the Middle East. AJE is experimenting with innovative uses of social media and citizen reporting.

	BBC
	The BBC is the largest broadcasting organization in the world. Its mission is to enrich people's lives with programs that inform, educate and entertain.

	Boston.com
	One of the top online newspapers in America, the Boston Globe's online edition has won numerous awards, particularly for its video work.

	The Guardian
	One of the world's leading online newspapers, guardian.co.uk contains content from The Guardian and The Observer, as well as a substantial body of web-only work.

	Zeit Online
	The most widely-read German nationwide weekly newspaper, and a leader in data-driven journalism and data visualization.

Supporting orgnizations and advisors

• Medill School at Northwestern University
• The Media Consortium
• American Public Media
• Hacks/Hackers 
• Karim R Lakhani, Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School and Innovation whiz, @klakhani

The plan

see a draft of this in motion!