The worlds of journalism and web technology have joined up in the United States in a collaboration between the Knight Foundation and Mozilla.
The Knight-Mozilla News Technology Partnership (aka MoJo) is aimed at exploring ways of innovating to the partners' joint advantage.
The Knight Foundation's journalism programme associate, Jose Zamora, said: "We have been looking for things we have not imagined, things that are web native, not merely journalistic ideas that are on the web."
He added: "Video, comment threads, and people-powered news are elements provided by the web that have not been used to their maximum potential. They provide limitless opportunities to provide news and information in new and engaging ways."
Following a global challenge to designers and developers earlier this year some 400 ideas were submitted, and a review panel selected 60 entries for development.
The strongest candidates will now head to Berlin for "hackfests" in order to start creating their prototypes.
Then the most promising candidates of those will be placed inside online newsrooms - including The Guardian, the BBC, Al-Jazeera English, the Boston Globe and the German weekly, Die Ziet - for a one-year paid fellowship.
Zamora said: "We looked for candidates with a willingness to share their challenges and develop tech solutions in an open way, and to make the process of solving the challenge and the technologies developed available to anyone who wants to use them."
Mozilla's executive director, Mark Surman, said that "those who complete the three steps will be high-quality people" and that "the ideal candidate should be willing to get their hands dirty working side by side with journalists."
