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June 25, 2009, 10 a.m.

Complete Knight News Challenge coverage

With Lois’ post on Joe Boydston’s CMS project, we’ve now profiled all nine winners of the 2009 Knight News Challenge. Links to all nine are now available on our post announcing the winners last week.

You can also see all of our coverage of this year’s News Challenge — including stories dating back to the fall — here.

Joshua Benton is the senior writer and former director of Nieman Lab. You can reach him via email (joshua_benton@harvard.edu) or Twitter DM (@jbenton).
POSTED     June 25, 2009, 10 a.m.
PART OF A SERIES     Knight News Challenge 2009
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The media becomes an activist for democracy
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Action over analysis
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