Creating Technology for Social Change

Prep for bean spillage: new website, News Challenge announcement, new everything

On June 22, a lot happens. Don’t freak out.

By then, we’ll have a new website launched — courtesy of our fantastic Drupal design team at Civic Actions — and at 2:30pm that day, Knight Foundation will unveil its 2011 Knight News Challenge winners at our annual MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference. In fact, even though it’s a small invitation-only conference, we want to make sure you can watch the announcement live:

http://civic.mit.edu/conference2011/livestream

But by way of a teaser, on that same day, we’ll have major announcements of our own. Two of them. Probably the biggest pieces of news since Chris, Mitch, and Henry Jenkins proposed the idea for the Center four years ago.

So keep your eyes here, even though they’ll have to adjust to Civic Actions’ brilliant new design.