NYT joins Knight-Mozilla OpenNews, plus new fellowship info

[Tyler Dukes]

Looks like there will be more on this at SXSW, but four big news organizations just joined the Knight-Mozilla OpenNews project, aimed at driving open-source innovation in journalism. From the press release:

The announcement will be made at SXSW on Saturday, alongside a series of exhibits showcasing how Mozilla and other open source projects are leading innovation in news, in areas like real-time visualizations, augmented video, data-journalism and HTML5 web tools.

Also, you can apply for a fellowship with the OpenNews project starting April 9 (one of our forum members, Cole Gillespie, is already a Knight-Mozilla fellow working at Zeit in Germany).

OpenNews will award eight new fellowships this year, embedding fellows in these partner news organizations to spend a year writing code in collaboration with reporters and newsroom developers. Fellows will work in the open by sharing their code and their discoveries on the web, to increase access to new software and ideas.

Very excited to hear more about the results of this project. If any of you are attending SXSW, feel free to share any new info.