This year's competition received more than 1,000 applications
The Knight News Challenge on Networks has announced the longlist of ideas and innovations that have reached the next round of the competition, which seeks to "accelerate media innovation".
It has named 50 of the 51 "breakthrough ideas" that could receive a share of $5 million in funding when winners are announced on 18 June this year.
The unnamed proposal was a closed entry, with the applicant not wanting organisers to share details.
Tomorrow (Friday 13 April) 19 experts will vote on who should go through to the final round.
"Our goal is to leave that meeting with 10-15 projects that we will explore even more deeply over the next couple of weeks. We expect to bring 4-6 of those for consideration by Knight Foundation trustees in mid June, and publicly announce the winners at MIT on 18 June," organisers said in a post on the competition's Tumblr.
The 51-name longlist was selected from 1,078 applications received.
Last year two UK data projects - ScraperWiki and the Open Knowledge Foundation - both received Knight News Challenge funding.
Applications through to the next round this year include CitJo, a platform "to give citizen journalists on twitter an ability to organize and sell their content to media buyers".
EnviroFact, which will "provide fact-based evidence to verify environmental news claims by leveraging the Society of Environmental Journalists' international expertise and reach," also makes the list.
Protecting Journalists, a "website and smartphone application allowing Mexican journalists to report aggressions in real-time to various NGOs simultaneously while engaging communities on the importance of journalism," has been selected as well.
If successful with funding, Tracks News Stories "will build a tool that tracks news stories over time and allows a user to see their evolution and context".
The full list of 50 is at this link.
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