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Today on Live Life in Motion, I talk with Michael Maness. Michael is a former professional golfer and through his love and passion for the game he help start the Traveling Country Club. We talk through his career and how it got him to where he is today! Traveling Country Club: https://travelingcountryclub.com/ *It’s time to get a NEW mattress!! www.engineeredsleep.com USE code LIVE10 for 10% off* New Website:  www.LiveLifeInMotionPodcast.com

Today on Live Life in Motion, I talk with Michael Maness. Michael is a former professional golfer and through his love and passion for the game he help start the Traveling Country Club. We talk through his career and how it got him to where he is today! Traveling Country Club: <a href="https://travelingcountryclub.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://travelingcountryclub.com/</a> *It’s time to get a NEW mattress!! <a href="http://www.engineeredsleep.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.engineeredsleep.com</a> USE code LIVE10 for 10% off* New Website:  <a href="http://www.livelifeinmotionpodcast.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.LiveLifeInMotionPodcast.com</a>

43. Michael Maness: Former Professional Golfer / Founder of Traveling Country Club

It’s Episode 7 of Press Publish, the Nieman Lab podcast! My guest this week is Michael Maness, who leads the Journalism and Media Innovation program at the Knight Foundation. If you pay much attention to the journalism innovation world — or if you’ve been reading this site for long — you know that Knight is the biggest of big dogs in the space. They give more than $30 million a year to a mixture of startups, news organizations, coding projects, and other ventures they believe will help support the information needs of communities. Name a prominent nonprofit news outlet or journalism school — or, increasingly, a news-related open source project — and there’s a pretty good shot Knight has either funded it or been asked to fund it. (That includes — disclosure! — this website, which has received Knight funding.) You could get a pretty good idea of the journalism-innovation zeitgeist just by looking at who Knight is funding at any given moment. Michael and I talked about how Knight decides on its journalism priorities, how those have shifted in recent years, and how they’re trying to ensure the projects they fund have impact beyond the length of a grant. If you’re interested in how journalism’s biggest foundation funder is thinking about the challenges in 2013, you should definitely give it a listen. Listen Download the MP3 Or listen in your browser: [audio:http://traffic.libsyn.com/niemanlab/PressPublish007.mp3] Subscribe in iTunes Subscribe (RSS) Listen at Soundcloud Show notes Michael Maness @michaelmaness Michael’s LinkedIn Springfield News-Leader Springfield (The Simpsons) — Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia About Knight Foundation John S. Knight James L. Knight Knight Communities Code for America Knight Chairs in Journalism Knight News Challenge Nieman Lab coverage of the Knight News Challenge Alberto Ibargüen Previous winners of the News Challenge 2010: “Trust, mobile, and money: New focal points (and hints for applicants) for the new Knight News Challenge” 2011 FCC report: “The Information Needs of Communities: The changing media landscape in a broadband age” Texas Tribune Knight’s 2009 grant to the Texas Tribune 2009: “Gary Kebbel on the Knight News Challenge: Repetitive ideas, tougher judges hurt some applicants” Recovers.org “Knight Foundation diversifies its journalism investments again with its new Prototype Fund” “A new class of Knight News Challenge winners focuses on mobile in the developing world” Ushahidi International Center for Journalists “One wonders whether ‘News’ Challenge will always remain the appropriate name.” OpenIDEO DocumentCloud Scott Lewis vs. Scott Klein EveryBlock Knight’s 2007 $1.1 million grant for EveryBlock Knight’s 2010 $235,000 grant for OpenBlock Knight’s 2011 $275,000 grant for OpenBlock Rural Mark Armstrong: “The death of EveryBlock and why I suddenly care about local” “News Challenge on Open Gov: Submit now, not later” Nieman Lab Book Club 2009: Jay Hamilton’s All the News That’s Fit to Sell: How the Market Transforms Information into News Jay Hamilton, Duke University Rachel Sterne Haot, chief digital officer, New York City “A court case against those skeezy mugshot websites raises First Amendment issues” “Journal News Gun Map Goes Out With A Bang: ‘We Do Not Cower’ To Bullies, Says Publisher” Knight Media Learning Seminar 2013 “Beyond Lehrer: Some optimism in Miami around foundations helping fill community info needs” Community Information Toolkit 2010: “Knight Foundation’s new biz consultant thinks news startups can learn from outside of journalism” Peter Spear (@pspear)

It’s Episode 7 of <a href="http://www.presspublish.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Press Publish</a>, the Nieman Lab podcast! My guest this week is <a href="http://www.knightfoundation.org/staff/michael-maness/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Michael Maness</a>, who leads the Journalism and Media Innovation program at <a href="http://www.knightfoundation.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">the Knight Foundation</a>. If you pay much attention to the journalism innovation world — or if you’ve been reading this site for long — you know that Knight is the biggest of big dogs in the space. They give more than $30 million a year to a mixture of startups, news organizations, coding projects, and other ventures they believe will help support the <a href="http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/06/opening-up-journalisms-boundaries-to-bring-change-back-in-how-knight-and-its-news-challenge-have-evolved/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">information needs of communities</a>. Name a prominent nonprofit news outlet or journalism school — or, increasingly, a news-related open source project — and there’s a pretty good shot Knight has either funded it or been asked to fund it. (That includes — disclosure! — this website, which has received Knight funding.) You could get a pretty good idea of the journalism-innovation zeitgeist just by looking at who Knight is funding at any given moment. Michael and I talked about how Knight decides on its journalism priorities, how those have shifted in recent years, and how they’re trying to ensure the projects they fund have impact beyond the length of a grant. If you’re interested in how journalism’s biggest foundation funder is thinking about the challenges in 2013, you should definitely give it a listen. <h3>Listen</h3> <a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/niemanlab/PressPublish007.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Download the MP3</a> Or listen in your browser: [audio:<a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/niemanlab/PressPublish007.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://traffic.libsyn.com/niemanlab/PressPublish007.mp3</a>] <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/press-publish/id592636587" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe in iTunes</a> <a href="http://www.niemanlab.org/category/press-publish/feed/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe (RSS)</a> <a href="https://soundcloud.com/harvard/sets/press-publish-nieman-lab" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Listen at Soundcloud</a> <h3>Show notes</h3> <a href="http://www.knightfoundation.org/staff/michael-maness/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Michael Maness</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/michaelmaness" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@michaelmaness</a> <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/michael-maness/3/75b/533" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Michael’s LinkedIn</a> <a href="http://www.news-leader.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Springfield News-Leader</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield_(The_Simpsons)" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Springfield (The Simpsons) — Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a> <a href="http://knightfoundation.org/about/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">About Knight Foundation</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_S._Knight" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">John S. Knight</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_L._Knight" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">James L. Knight</a> <a href="http://www.knightfoundation.org/about/communities/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Knight Communities</a> <a href="http://codeforamerica.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Code for America</a> <a href="http://www.knightfoundation.org/about/knight-chairs/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Knight Chairs in Journalism</a> <a href="https://www.newschallenge.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Knight News Challenge</a> <a href="http://www.niemanlab.org/tag/knight-news-challenge" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Nieman Lab coverage of the Knight News Challenge</a> <a href="http://www.knightfoundation.org/staff/alberto-ibarguen/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Alberto Ibargüen</a> <a href="http://www.knightfoundation.org/grants/?funding_option=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Previous winners of the News Challenge</a> <a href="http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/10/trust-mobile-and-money-new-focal-points-and-hints-for-applicants-for-the-new-knight-news-challenge/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">2010: “Trust, mobile, and money: New focal points (and hints for applicants) for the new Knight News Challenge”</a> <a href="http://www.fcc.gov/info-needs-communities" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">2011 FCC report: “The Information Needs of Communities: The changing media landscape in a broadband age”</a> <a href="http://www.texastribune.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Texas Tribune</a> <a href="http://knightfoundation.org/grants/20092443/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Knight’s 2009 grant to the Texas Tribune</a> <a href="http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/06/gary-kebbel-on-the-knight-news-challenge-repetitive-ideas-tougher-judges-hurt-some-applicants/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">2009: “Gary Kebbel on the Knight News Challenge: Repetitive ideas, tougher judges hurt some applicants”</a> <a href="https://recovers.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Recovers.org</a> <a href="http://www.niemanlab.org/2012/06/knight-foundation-diversifies-its-journalism-investments-again-with-its-new-prototype-fund/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">“Knight Foundation diversifies its journalism investments again with its new Prototype Fund”</a> <a href="http://www.niemanlab.org/2013/01/a-new-class-of-knight-news-challenge-winners-focuses-on-mobile-in-the-developing-world/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">“A new class of Knight News Challenge winners focuses on mobile in the developing world”</a> <a href="http://ushahidi.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ushahidi</a> <a href="http://www.icfj.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">International Center for Journalists</a> <a href="http://www.niemanlab.org/2013/01/a-new-class-of-knight-news-challenge-winners-focuses-on-mobile-in-the-developing-world/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">“One wonders whether ‘News’ Challenge will always remain the appropriate name.”</a> <a href="http://www.openideo.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">OpenIDEO</a> <a href="http://www.documentcloud.org/home" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">DocumentCloud</a> <a href="http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/scott-lewis/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Scott Lewis</a> vs. <a href="http://www.propublica.org/site/author/scott_klein" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Scott Klein</a> <a href="http://www.everyblock.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">EveryBlock</a> <a href="http://www.knightfoundation.org/grants/20060885/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Knight’s 2007 $1.1 million grant for EveryBlock</a> <a href="http://www.knightfoundation.org/grants/20100609/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Knight’s 2010 $235,000 grant for OpenBlock</a> <a href="http://www.knightfoundation.org/grants/20110150/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Knight’s 2011 $275,000 grant for OpenBlock Rural</a> <a href="http://www.niemanlab.org/2013/02/mark-armstrong-the-death-of-everyblock-and-why-i-suddenly-care-about-local/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mark Armstrong: “The death of EveryBlock and why I suddenly care about local”</a> <a href="http://www.knightfoundation.org/blogs/knightblog/2013/2/19/news-challenge-open-gov-submit-now-not-later/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">“News Challenge on Open Gov: Submit now, not later”</a> <a href="http://www.niemanlab.org/category/themes/lab-book-club-jay-hamilton/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Nieman Lab Book Club 2009: Jay Hamilton’s All the News That’s Fit to Sell: How the Market Transforms Information into News</a> <a href="http://fds.duke.edu/db/Sanford/jayth" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jay Hamilton, Duke University</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/RachelHaot" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rachel Sterne Haot, chief digital officer, New York City</a> <a href="http://www.niemanlab.org/2013/01/a-court-case-against-those-skeezy-mugshot-websites-raises-first-amendment-issues/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">“A court case against those skeezy mugshot websites raises First Amendment issues”</a> <a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/journal-news-gun-map-goes-out-bang-we-do-not-cower-bullies-says-publisher-1032086" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">“Journal News Gun Map Goes Out With A Bang: ‘We Do Not Cower’ To Bullies, Says Publisher”</a> <a href="http://www.knightfoundation.org/media-learning-seminar/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Knight Media Learning Seminar 2013</a> <a href="http://www.niemanlab.org/2013/02/beyond-lehrer-some-optimism-in-miami-around-foundations-helping-fill-community-info-needs/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">“Beyond Lehrer: Some optimism in Miami around foundations helping fill community info needs”</a> <a href="http://www.infotoolkit.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Community Information Toolkit</a> <a href="http://www.niemanlab.org/2010/08/knight-foundations-new-biz-consultant-thinks-news-startups-can-learn-from-outside-of-journalism/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">2010: “Knight Foundation’s new biz consultant thinks news startups can learn from outside of journalism”</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/pspear" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Peter Spear (@pspear)</a>

Press Publish 7: Michael Maness on Knight Foundation’s priorities and how to ensure impact