Tony Shawcross Wins Knight News Challenge Grant

May 23rd, 2008 by Colin Rhinesmith

Tony Shawcross of Denver Open Media was recently awarded $380,000 by the Knight News Challenge to develop new “Tools for Public Access TV“:

“This project will enable public access TV stations and community technology centers to use common tools to create web sites that enable the transfer of video between the web site and the TV station. Together, public access TV and community technology centers can engage disadvantaged communities in new media platforms. While there are thousands of public access stations and community technology centers country-wide that provide media education and equipment, they don’t share a tool-set enabling them to become part of a collective, user-driven, online media network.”