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Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership, code name MoJo (Mozilla + Journalism)

  • News tools, built on open principles and technology
  • Currently in the design phase. The partnership will be developed here.

Project tools

Help this project

  • In March, we will be launching the first of our innovation challenges. Consider entering the challenge and help us build buzz on your social networks.

The basics

  • News industry is at a crossroads. Big technology decisions, large budgets for implementation, massive user reach means the choices they make will impact the web's future as a whole. News is at the center of many people’s experience of the web.
  • We will introduce attractive open alternatives into this space. Demonstrate that the open web is better, faster, and cheaper than the alternatives. Surface clear direction on standards, then help drive adoption that results in real innovations.Present viable alternatives to monocultures & toll booths on the open web.
  • Generating great ideas through design challenges & open conversations.
  • Supporting people who will take ideas from concept to code, through in-person workshops and 15 fellowships that will embed great news innovators within news organizations for a year.

The vision

The next time there's an uprising in Tunisia or Egypt, news organizations around the world will be using people, software, and ideas that came out of Knight Foundation's and Mozilla's collaboration with news organizations. Stories and maps will be rich with semantic data and location aware. News will adapt to different devices and screen sizes instantly. And video will be interactive, searchable, and multilingual -- all thanks to open web technologies.

The Opportunity

To make the partnership work, we need a thriving community involved at every step. We want to involve:

  • Creative thinkers who care about journalism and journalists who are using technology to learn, network and build a community around their interests, develop their careers, and take leadership at the intersection of news and technology.
  • News organizations to explore the fullest possible range of open solutions to their technology challenges, at a key moment in the history of journalism.
  • The Mozilla community, to share our open web technology, practices and values with an important population: newsmakers, news users, and those making valuable contributions to journalism.

The Team

Mozilla

  • Nathaniel James, News Technology Program Manager, njames at mozillafoundation dot org, @james_nathaniel on twitter, nathanieljames.org 
  • Phillip Smith, News Technology Innovation Consultant, ps at phillipadsmith dot com, @phillipadsmith on Twitter, phillipadsmith.com 
  • Desigan "Dees" Chinniah, Mozilla Labs guru, cyberdee at gmail dot com, @cberdees on Twitter, desiganchinniah.com
  • Mark Surman, Executive Director, mark at mozillafoundation dot org, @msurman on Tiwtter, commonspace.wordpress.com

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

Learn more about this project and more about their journalism program here. 

Our news partners

We are joined at this early stage by the following by four innovative news organizations who will help shape our innovation challenge and ultimately host 4 of our 15 fellows.

  • BBC
  • Boston.com
  • The Guardian
  • Zeit Online 

If your news organizations would like to consider joining the initaitive as a news partner, contact Nathaniel James

Supporting orgnizations and advisors

  • Medill School at Northwestern University
  • The Media Consortium
  • American Public Media
  • Hacks/Hackers 
  • Karim R Lakhani, Assistan Professor at Harvard Business School and Innovation wiz, @klakhani on Twitter, soudaiospaizen.net

MoJo in the News

We're getting great coverage. Check out our growing list of stories here.

Roadmap

Major Deadlines/Milestones (replicate on wiki):

  • March 23 - launch innovation challenge #1
    • launch challenges 2 and 3 in 2 week intervals
    • challenge close 1 month after: earlier if we go with phases
  • June 15 - announce & showcase innovation challenge winners
  • June 29 - learning labs begin
  • late August: in person hackathon (MoJoCamp?)
  • mid- September: begin fellowship offers (first 5)
  • mid-October: first fellows begin


Detailed roadmap here: http://etherpad.mozilla.com:9000/MoJo-2011-planning-calendar



Frequently Asked Questions (F.A.Q.)

Project visuals

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