The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and MTV announced today the Knight News Challenge “Young Creators Award,” a new digital journalism grant program for young people age 25 and under anywhere in the world. The contest will award up to $500,000 to young creators with compelling ideas for using digitally delivered news and information to enhance physical communities – improving the lives of people where they live, work and vote. The new award is a component of the Knight News Challenge, an annual competition awarding $5 million for innovative ideas using digital experiments to transform community news. [source]

The site also allows entrants to gather public discussion so they can improve their proposals. Cool! [Tags: media citizen_journalism knight mtv journalism ]

Also from the world of press releases, this one from the NYT:

NEW YORK, Sept. 6, 2007 – The New York Times introduced today a new online
initiative that pairs Times content with faculty course material for both
credit-bearing and continuing education courses. Educators will now have
the opportunity to select Times articles, archival content, graphics and
multimedia content, including videos and Webcasts, gathered around specific
subjects, and make them available to students online, along with other
course materials. Students will benefit from access to thematic content
that is drawn from the vast array of Times reporting on a countless number
of issues.

Aren’t we all students, after all? Wouldn’t we all benefit from t

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