2010 Knight Fellow wins Knight News Challenge
Teru Kuwayama
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Teru Kuwayama, 2010 Knight Fellow, is a winner of the
Knight News Challenge, a contest that funds innovative ideas that use digital technology to inform specific geographic communities. Kuwayama has been awarded $202,000 for his project "One-Eight", which will improve news coverage of military operations in Afghanistan. The following is a summary of the project:
Broadening the perspectives that surround U.S. military operations in Afghanistan, this project will chronicle a battalion by combining reporting from embedded journalists with user-generated content from the Marines themselves. The troops, recently authorized to use social media while deployed, and their families will be key audiences for the online journal -- steering, challenging and augmenting the coverage with their feedback. The approach will directly serve the stakeholders and inform the wider public by bringing in on-the-ground views on military issues and the execution of U.S. foreign policy.
