The deadline for the Knight Foundation’s Knight News Challenge is approaching. The contest awards up to $5 million for innovative ideas using digital experiments to transform community news.

When it comes to blogging, news often appears in a very personal context. This has the potential to be the beginning of an exciting new era of reporting, one that takes “New Journalism” to it’s logical next step by putting the power to shape how the news is written and read directly into the hands of the public.