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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
The 2011 Challenge will run from April 25-June 20. We will be posting 3 distinct challenge statements in 2 week intervals. See the full calendar.
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!
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Al Jazeera English |
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| 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. | |||
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BBC |
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| 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. | |||
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Boston.com |
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| One of the top online newspapers in America, the Boston Globe's online edition has won numerous awards, particularly for its video work. | |||
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The Guardian |
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| 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. | |||
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Zeit Online |
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| 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
[[|]]2011 Innovation Challenge Reviewer panel
- Amanda Hickman, Program Director at DocumentCloud
- Nathaniel James, Mozilla News Technology Program Manager
- Jenny 8. Lee, Journalist and Author
- Amanda Michel, Director of Distributed Reporting at ProPublica
- Hong Qu, User Experience expert
- Eric Schoenborn, Online Community Manager at the Knight Foundation
- Mark Surman, Executive Director at Mozilla
- Sascha Venohr, Development Editor at Zeit Online
- Jose Zamora, Journalism Associate at Knight Foundation
The plan
see a draft of this in motion!
Background Reading
- Open innovation challenges: do they work?
- Help define the Knight-Mozilla News Technology innovation challenges
- How newsroom developers are reinventing the Web
- 5 Ways to Integrate Hacking in Newsrooms
- How to Become a Knight-Mozilla Fellowship Host
- Video: MoJo in 3 Minutes (and 24 Seconds)
- Mixing it Up: Engaging News Partners