Knight News Challenge: Dissertation probes contest’s impact | Knight Digital Media Center
Lewis lists three key takeaways from his research:
1. “The Knight Foundation, to accomplish innovation, backed away from journalism, but these innovators [the News Challenge winners] brought journalism back in.”
2. “In seeking to reform journalism, news innovators are not de-professionalizing journalism so much as re-energizing its ideals.”
3. “It used to be hard to start a news organization but relatively easier to sustain one. Now that the equation has flipped—news innovators are struggling to institutionalize.”
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