February 08, 2011
Mozilla, Knight create $2.5M initiative to embed technologists in newsrooms
If technologists and journalists ever needed a matchmaker, they just found a big one. Mozilla, the folks behind the widely used open-source Firefox browser, and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, have launched a multimillion-dollar program to embed 15 technology fellows in newsrooms worldwide to help figure out how to better engage news consumers.
Knight will put $2.5 million into the pot, and Mozilla will manage the effort, selecting fellows from among winners of an upcoming innovation challenge. In announcing the project Feb. 7, Mozilla Executive Director Mark Surman explained: “We need the most creative innovators from both the news and web worlds working together to shape what the future of media looks like.”
Among the newsrooms involved in the pilot will be the Boston Globe, the BBC, The Guardian and Zeit Online. The project said it is looking to hear from other news organizations interested in hosting fellows.
On its KnightBlog site, Knight likened the new project to past efforts to help place journalists in universities and journalism professors in newsrooms. “What if we did the same for technology? What if we could help expand the field of media innovation by building a bridge between the technology and the news community?”
You can sign up for a listserv to get news of the effort.
The News for Digital Journalists blog is made possible by a grant to USC Annenberg from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
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There’s more detail from Mozilla’s Nathaniel James, who will lead the Knight-Mozilla partnership, on the IdeaLab blog.
Blog post: http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2011/02/knight-mozilla-partner-to-boost-tech-journalism-collaboration038.html
Nathaniel James bio: http://www.pbs.org/idealab/author-bios.html#nathaniel_james
By A. Adam Glenn, 02/08/11 at 10:53 am
Great post.I think mozilla is one of the greatest internet companies.
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