Foundation Seeks Proposals for News-Media Grants

By Nicole Wallace

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is accepting applications for the second year of its Knight News Challenge, which will award $5-million to individuals, organizations, and businesses that propose innovative ways to use technology to transform local news.

Among the projects that won grants during the competition's first year: cellphone distribution of video news reports from young journalists on the 2008 presidential election, digital newscasts for Philadelphia's immigrant