From the Center

• Congrats to our Ryan O'Toole on his Red Ink consumer financial data platform, honored as a Knight-Batten Notable Entry http://cot.ag/aw7efn
• Filming and Editing with youth in Jabaliya refugee camp, Gaza – Week 3 http://cot.ag/caxyK4
• Creative Writing & Filming with youth in Jabaliya refugee camp, Gaza – Week 2 http://cot.ag/crOmgc

From Our Friends

• @propublica: Stealing our stories just got easier http://bit.ly/bKca9B h/t @ericuman
• "The Ideology Of Journalists: A Response To Jay Rosen" http://cot.ag/cfEluU
• @documentcloud now supports HTTPS/SSL security in the workspace and for uploading sensitive documents. http://tinyurl.com/34g3lle

Shirley Sherrod Episode

Red Ink, a Center project developed by Ryan O'Toole to help consumers make better collective financial decisions, was named a notable entry in this week's 2010 Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism.

Said O'Toole, "It's cool, whether talking to advisers or people I'm collaborating with, to get this kind of recognition, not only from outside MIT but from such an established journalism institution."

O'Toole says he's humbled to be in the company the other winning projects. "When you look at that list, it's striking."

His joins other notable entries such as Community Centered Advertising, created by Knight News Challenge winner Spot.Us, a collaborative local journalism project from the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal for iPad.

See it as it happens: follow the Center on Twitter, @c4fcm.

From the Center

• "My job, let me show you it": @chrysaora tells you why you should apply for our Outreach Coordinator position http://cot.ag/9N2pcV

Friends of the Center

• Congrats to @digidave and five others on becoming '10-'11 Reynolds Fellows! http://www.rjionline.org/fellows-program/index.php

Future of Newspapers

• Mass. newspaper combating offensive commenters with one-time $0.99 charge and use of real names http://cot.ag/bNnbaB
• @Poynter: Gannett papers to add jobs for hubs. // Charles Apple says there are smart aspects to Gannett's plan. http://journ.us/cukqJ4
• Best of luck to Khoi Vinh, who's announced he's leaving his design director position at nytimes.com http://cot.ag/awvX43

Past of Newspapers

The Center for Future Civic Media is adding an Outreach Coordinator--an amazing chance to help place incredible civic media work directly into communities. Interested? Apply via the link below, or forward it along to qualified friends...

Apply: http://sh.webhire.com/servlet/av/jd?ai=631&ji=2464670&sn=I

Title: Outreach Coordinator
Req Number: mit-00007036
Department: Media Laboratory
Location(s): Cambridge MA
FT/PT: Full Time
Employment / Payroll Category: SRS (Administrative)
Work Shift:

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From the Center

• @c4fcm's Ryan O'Toole gets grant to pitch Red Ink at Innovate100 in August http://cot.ag/bDVXz3
• "Local competition inspires creative use of public-private space" http://cot.ag/aok6i8 via @mitnews
• Hey @hockendougal and @amerigo: RT @ryan_thornburg: Sourcemap.org is the Ushahidi of 2010

Knight News Challenge/FNCM

Our lives are increasingly mediated by computers and data – a shift that is becoming more and more natural to us. From Data.gov to real-time municipal bus information, data in many forms from many sources is being made available and recombined in ways we could not have anticipated just ten years ago, when everyone used the phone book, and when restaurant and movie reviewers numbered in the tens not the tens of thousands.

More about the conference: http://civic.mit.edu/conference2010

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation--sponsor of the MIT Center for Future Civic Media--in June 2010 announced their 2010 Knight News Challenge winners. Together, these winners form another ground-breaking, visionary class of civic media developers, inventors, and entrepreneurs.

This is video of the announcement by Knight Foundation president Alberto Ibargüen, as introduced by the Center's director Chris Csikszentmihályi. Please join us in congratulating the winners: