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Knight News Challenge

September 14, 2008 by Steve Hanson

I've given this some thought for the last few days.  I think that for purposes of the Knight News Challenge, and its rules and emphases, we should position a request for money here to be for a more limited area than I would consider for the whole project.  In particular, they like requests that serve a community or area - that wouldn't preclude doing a national proposal - for example, they've awarded money in the past for national proposals that cover a set of geographic areas - but the more I think about this, the more I think that the request should concentrate on Wisconsin, and emphasize the notion of supporting rural citizen journalism.  

Off the top of my head, I think that the proposal should cover some number of areas - we need to position this as a unique project and I think the general concepts should include: