Knight Foundation Grant [1]

I am in Miami today at the Editor & Publisher/Mediaweek Interactive Media Conference to receive a Knight Foundation News Challenge Grant [2] on behalf of the Citizen Media Law Project.  The one-year grant will fund the development of a national database of legal threats against citizen journalists and a set of state-specific legal guides that will cover the 15 most populous states and the District of Columbia. We are excited and honored to work with the Knight Foundation [3] on this project.

The Knight Foundation awarded a total of 24 grants, covering a broad range of initiatives from the development of a Center for Future Civic Media at MIT to supporting bloggers who will write about topics such as GPS tracking devices and out-of-the-box community publishing solutions.  It's a fascinating list [2]of projects and people.

I may be the one basking in the Florida sun today, but this day would not have been possible without the vision and hard work of the other CMLP founders [4]: Dan Gillmor, Phil Malone, and Matt Lovell.