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I certainly like this Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership idea though it suggest (to creative minds like my own) an image of Gorillas stalking through the night-time mists.
Is the word "hacking" an unfortunate choice of words. Is this really what the Partnership does: learn to "hack", attend "hacking events", keep busy hacking" or is this inside lingo that I just don't get?

Steve, your first link to the Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership in the post is not working.

Does one have to be based in the UK to apply for the fellowship?

Hi there, I'm the director of the Knight-Mozilla OpenNews project, so I thought I would step in here and answer these couple questions:

1) Re: Hacking. Despite recent unfortunate events in the UK, "hacking" is shorthand among developers and engineers for building fast, experimenting, and trying out new things. Which is exactly what we do with the Knight-Mozilla Fellowships.

2) Location: The Knight-Mozilla OpenNews project is global in its scale and its participation. You don't have to be located in the UK to apply. We have eight news partners this year, they are all over the globe.

Thanks all!

Sounds like the initiative has grown considerably larger since last year - great that ´óÏó´«Ã½ is continuing to participate! Curious to see that none of the partners are in India or Asia for that matter though - lots of great dev work being done out there!

@Steve, Dan: will be encouraging some of my students to apply. Came across an interesting article on - think addressing the convergence related challenges mentioned there would really go a long way to building the newsroom of the future.

@#9 - Craig Smith - could be mistaken but doubt the Knight-Mozilla fellowship would go so far as defining a standardised content distribution platform between broadcasters, let alone managing future device convergence. Think it's more focused on current practical newsroom technology like enhancing interactivity rather than the blue sky strategy content in the article.

Joseph, I think the intention is precisely for ´óÏó´«Ã½ to do some blue sky thinking here, not just scrambling to address current technology issues. Otherwise it will constantly be in a reactive state to technology changes like most broadcasters were with in newsrooms.

@Dan Sinker - thank you for the reply and glad to hear the fellowship is open to international participants!

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This is a wonderful opportunity Steve - wish I were more tech-savvy to participate! Will the results of the fellowship be published somewhere on the ´óÏó´«Ã½ site (not of who won, of what is actually produced by the fellowship)?

Meryl

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Talking about technology, why is the only place on the beeb where you can post a comment. Does keeping the old format have anything to do with it?

@paulmerhaba - you can post comments but the new system for the reporter blogs is really horrid... and don't even get me started on the ridiculous letter-count restrictions for these comments. Hopefully the Specials team and the new Knight-Mozilla fellow can work a bit more on improving interactivity with news consumers.