The document describes the Knight-Mozilla Challenge which aims to fund innovative open web applications that can help shape the future of news. It provides details on how developers and designers can submit ideas and prototypes for news-focused apps, with the opportunity to receive funding to build their project full-time in a newsroom for a year. Attendees are encouraged to brainstorm app ideas in groups and submit their initial sketches to the challenge website for consideration.

1. Want to shape
the future of news?
Join the Knight-Mozilla Challenge!
This event will explain how.
MoJo Beerstorm - New York, May 26 2011

2. YOU could build the
next game changing
innovation for news.
We want to help.

3. Knight and Mozilla want
the open tech and culture of
the web to become a core
part of how news is made.

5. How?
1. Find five talented developers and designers.
2. Put them in innovative newsrooms for a year.
3. Build open web apps that shape the field.

6. inspiration:

7. inspiration:

8. inspiration:

9. What inspires you?
put up your hand

10. Challenge No. 1
How can new web video tools
transform news storytelling?

11. Challenge No. 2
Beyond Comment Threads:
how do we enable coherent,
elevated discussion online?

12. Challenge No. 3
People-powered news: What
should a news website look
like in 2011 and beyond?

13. What to do:
1. Submit an idea (or many).
Just a sketch will do.
2. If it’s good, we help you prototype.
We might fly you to Berlin.
3. If it’s great, you may end up in a newsroom for a
year where you get to build your app.

14. Start right now!

15. Start right now!

16. Next steps
1. Find three people you don’t know.
2. Brainstorm ideas with them. Make a sketch.
3. Take a photo of your idea and submit it to
drumbeat.org/journalism
4. Fuel your creativity with beer & pizza (on us!)

17. Want to shape
the future of news?
Join the Knight-Mozilla Challenge!
This event will explain how.
MoJo Beerstorm - Boston, May 2 2011