The Knight Foundation has announced the winners of the annual Knight News Challenge, and it includes a few important tools for data visualizations for journalists.  Eric Rodenbeck’s ‘CityTracking’ won $400k, and Eric Gundersen’s ‘Tilemapping’ gets a nice $74,000 to make map mash-ups simpler.

Hear the winning entries pitch their ideas in the video above.

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