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The 2009 Knight News Challenge is year three of a contest awarding as much as $5 million a year for innovative ideas that develop platforms, tools and services to inform and transform community news, conversations and information distribution and visualization.

Knight Foundation plans to invest at least $25 million over five years in the search for bold community news and social media experiments.

For the 2009 contest, nine winners are being awarded close to $2 million.

If you want to know more about the Knight News Challenge, we suggest you start at the beginning and read every page on this site.

If you are a reporter writing about the Knight News Challenge, please visit our press room.

The News Challenge is an initiative of John S. and James L. Knight Foundation's Journalism Program.

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