Transparent journalism triumphs at the Knights news challenge

Congratulations to Martin Moore and Sir Tim Berners Lee who were part winners of the Knights News challenge .

They have recieved $350,000 for their project Transparent journalism which aims to

design a way for content creators to add information on their sources to their reports, as a form of “source tagging

The project gives an example

a reporter could note that an article was based on personal observations, interviews with eyewitnesses or specific, original documents. Filters would then use this data - the “story behind the story” - to help find high-quality articles. A reader searching the phrase “Pakistan riots” for example, might find 9,000 articles. But filtering by “eyewitness accounts” would yield a more selective list.