Twenty Tow-Knight Entrepreneurial Journalism fellows recently presented their startups during our fifth annual Demo Week. The projects ranged from newsroom training services to niche reporting platforms, from immersive podcasts to mobile products for underserved communities.

Here’s a sampling of their summaries:

Flying Content will adapt and create location-enhanced content for mobile, wearables, and smart cars.
The Fuego is a platform that creates and curates smart & viral stories for young Latinos in the U.S.
Young Nation is an optimized news service for mobile phone users in Zimbabwe.
NK News is an independent specialist site focused on North Korea.
Cuonda.com is a platform to enable Hispanic podcasters to aggregate audiences to amplify reach, standardize metrics, and find common sponsorships.
Fellow share their four-minute presentations and read their elevator pitches. Photo by Skyler Reid.
Fellow share their four-minute presentations and read their elevator pitches. Photo by Skyler Reid.

When you watch the 20 fellows’ four-minute presentations from that night and read their elevator pitches, it’s evident that most aim to solve nagging, niche problems with solutions driven by a combination of original journalism and community input. Most are experimenting with multiple revenue streams—ads alone, particularly for small-scale…

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