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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.
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Learn more

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Connect with MoJo

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!

Current News Partners - check out our partners calendar.

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Zeit Online
The digital sister publication of Germany's most-read weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT. ZEIT ONLINE is a European innovation leader in data driven journalism and has created one of the world's first journalistic websites that is optimized for touch-screen tablets.

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

The plan

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see a draft of this in motion!

Background Reading


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