HNews
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hNews is a microformat
for news content developed by the Associated Press
and the Media Standards Trust
. hNews extends hAtom
, introducing a number of fields that more completely describe a journalistic work. hNews also introduces rel-principles (a format that describes the journalistic principles upheld by the journalist or news organization that has published the news item). hNews will be one of several microformats open standards.
In July 2009, the Associated Press announced its plans to use the format for all of its text content.
In 2010, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
awarded the Media Standards Trust
a $350,000 Knight News Challenge grant to create hNews.
Microformat
A microformat is a web-based approach to semantic markup which seeks to re-use existing HTML/XHTML tags to convey metadata and other attributes in web pages and other contexts that support HTML, such as RSS...
for news content developed by the Associated Press
Associated Press
The Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists...
and the Media Standards Trust
Media Standards Trust
The Media Standards Trust was formed in 2006 to address concerns of a deterioration in journalistic standards at a time when the media were becoming enormously powerful while remaining largely opaque and unaccountable...
. hNews extends hAtom
HAtom
hAtom is a draft Microformat for marking up HTML, using classes and rel attributes, content on web pages that contain blog entries or similar chronological content...
, introducing a number of fields that more completely describe a journalistic work. hNews also introduces rel-principles (a format that describes the journalistic principles upheld by the journalist or news organization that has published the news item). hNews will be one of several microformats open standards.
In July 2009, the Associated Press announced its plans to use the format for all of its text content.
In 2010, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is an American private, non-profit foundation dedicated to supporting transformational ideas that promote quality journalism, advance media innovation, engage communities and foster the arts....
awarded the Media Standards Trust
Media Standards Trust
The Media Standards Trust was formed in 2006 to address concerns of a deterioration in journalistic standards at a time when the media were becoming enormously powerful while remaining largely opaque and unaccountable...
a $350,000 Knight News Challenge grant to create hNews.