Mediagazer: Knight News Challenge funds new collaborative and verification projects (Catalina Albeanu/Journalism.co.uk)

9:15 AM ET, June 30, 2014

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William Turvill / Press Gazette:

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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian:
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Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:

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David Carr / New York Times:

For Email Newsletters, a Death Greatly Exaggerated — Here at the Media Equation, we pride ourselves on keeping our readers abreast of the newest technologies and approaches in reaching audiences. So it gives us great pleasure to reveal a radical publishing technology that is catching on in news media companies big and small.

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Catalina Albeanu / Journalism.co.uk:

Knight News Challenge funds new collaborative and verification projects — Swarmize and Checkdesk win grants in latest news challenge round focusing on strengthening the internet ‘for free expression and innovation’ — Credit: By Marlon E on Flickr. Some rights reserved.

Al Jazeera English:

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Todd Spangler / Variety:

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Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Journalism Lab:

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Devjyot Ghoshal / The Atlantic Online:

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