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Internet Archive to bring TV news footage to the public
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New program funded to measure media impact and audience engagement
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Texas Tribune to refine its model for sustainability in nonprofit news with $1.5 million in funding from Knight Foundation
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Knight Foundation appoints Carol Coletta as Vice President/Communities and National Initiatives
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Knight Prototype Fund helps innovators test future of media
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Knight commits $9 million to civic technology and engagement
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The Washington Post introduces model for “Truth Teller” real-time fact checker
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Eight mobile ventures win $2.4 million in funding via Knight News Challenge
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Pulitzer Prize Winner and National Geographic Fellow Paul Salopek to Embark on 7-Year Walk from Africa to South America Following Path of Ancient Human Migration
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Fusing public media values with Silicon Valley entrepreneurship, KQED, Knight Foundation and PRX launch Matter Ventures, an accelerator for media startups
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New Knight International Fellowships will advance media innovation worldwide
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The Boston Globe and MIT launch new media collaboration with Knight support
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Six ventures bring data to the public as winners of Knight News Challenge
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Captricity Closes Financing Round with Knight Enterprise Fund Investment
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Community foundations to gain digital skills through Knight Digital Media Center training
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Think mobile: Knight News Challenge funds breakthrough ideas for mobile projects
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New Super PAC App allows users to find out what organizations, money, and claims are behind presidential ads
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Knight News Challenge: Data winners to be unveiled Sept. 20 at Online News Association Conference
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New Knight Report: Digital Training Comes of Age for Journalists
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The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) Launches The I Files on YouTube
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Open and Innovative Governance at Heart of Aspen Institute FOCAS 2012 Seminar
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ProPublica to expand news applications work with Knight Foundation support
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BBDO executive vice president JoAnn Sciarrino named UNC Knight Chair for Digital Advertising and Marketing
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The Aspen Institute announces Forum For Community Solutions & Opportunity Youth Incentive Fund
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Poynter, American Press Institute and Knight Foundation team up to help newspapers with digital tools training
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Six media innovation ventures awarded more than $1.37 million as winners of Knight News Challenge on Networks
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New executive training program for community news publishers launched by The Investigative News Network
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Knight News Challenge seeks breakthrough ideas that unlock power of data
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Knight Foundation invests in Umbel to provide new audience measurement standard to media companies
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Award-winning online news site launches print magazine
Knight Blog
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Hundreds of thousands of TV news broadcasts on one website
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Finding opportunities and addressing needs in Silicon Valley’s capital
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Pop Up Archive: beta is here!
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What toys can teach us about the future of journalism
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Flash philanthropy wows crowd at commencement
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Opportunity for funding Open Gov, information tools in Knight Community Info Challenge
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Philly Tech Week: celebrating momentum in technology and innovation
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Reviewers in Miami to discuss News Challenge on Open Gov semifinalists
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The Texas Tribune: building a model for sustainable local journalism
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Knight congratulates Behavio; News Challenge winner is now part of Google
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Media Policy: think globally, act locally
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Hope that the IRS will reconsider outdated media rules
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40 ideas advance in News Challenge on Open Gov
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Knight welcomes Carol Coletta as new vice president
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886 applications in News Challenge on Open Gov: What’s next
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Do universities hear the critics of journalism education?
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Final call for applications on Open Gov: Six things you need to know about Knight News Challenge
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Six things new journalists need to know when trying to get a job
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Taking audio content from the shelf to the web
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Sunshine Week events aim to promote open government
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Knight Foundation goes live with new portal for grantees
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Messing with Texas: empowering citizens to push for open government
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Fantasy Election '12, gamifying civic engagement: lessons from MTV
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What you need to know as #newschallenge deadline nears
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Grantmaking gone lean - meet 8 new Knight-funded prototypes
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Six media startups join inaugural class of media accelerator
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Knight Foundation heads to #SXSW
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Making it easier for digital news startups to get nonprofit status
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Answers to the 7 most common News Challenge questions
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Finding the wild, weird and the like-minded in #newschallenge inspirations
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Congrats to @cunyjschool alum: entrepreneurial #journalism site @NarrativelyNY = no 6 on @time's best sites of 2013 http://t.co/OhatfD19lI
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How some news orgs - like @nprnews @minnpost @guardian - use #Tumblr http://t.co/9U2owNUkXq v @Poynter #journalism
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.@internetarchive expands to make thousands of TV news broadcasts available on one site http://t.co/LLiaZq9XDM v @brewster_kahle #journalism
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"IRS foot-dragging on tax-exempt status is stifling nonprofit investigative #journalism" http://t.co/B9ch4wrYun v @washingtonpost
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How jschools are helping students develop entrepreneurial #journalism skills http://t.co/HLepj5LsAK v @poynter #education
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Journalism Disrupted: @michaelmaness on models of online & print #journalism emerging in the U.S http://t.co/9FybRD9wlN v @knightakron
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#NPR launches new mobile site, bets on the scroll http://t.co/5VPuhqghFG v @NiemanLab #journalism
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Lessons from the school of data #journalism http://t.co/VF4Hfliaef #ddj via @PBSMediaShift
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What toys can teach us about future of #journalism: @PETLabDataToys http://t.co/Bis5SUl6em v @colleenmacklin @heatherchaplin @jofsharp
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10 digital tools journalists can use to improve their reporting, storytelling http://t.co/L8FjvEMiDa via @Poynter #journalism
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Media metrics research: an opp to use measurement to make our work, orgs & #journalism stronger http://t.co/kFxpze4Uwi #eval
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.@MediaMetrics is just beginning. It needs ideas, participation, collaboration & great people http://t.co/kFxpze4Uwi #journalism
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A model for sustainable #journalism, a recipe for engaging next gen leaders & more. What's new at Knight http://t.co/ueW50t90z8
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How @ChiTrust & @OpenGovChicago are creating a new type of accountability #journalism http://t.co/TbCppub4Eh #opendata v @KDMC #infoneeds
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New partnership designed to strengthen local #arts #journalism http://t.co/jl3XXialpi v @mercerccj @MercerYou @maconarts
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Spots still available for 4/30 #Journalism Disrupted event with @michaelmaness in #Akron. Join us http://t.co/eFw8fOwrzU v @knightakron
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Apply to be a @TexasTribune fellow: create premium content for audiences & explore new revenue streams http://t.co/iiMvv7flUt #journalism
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"Taxing the Fourth Estate: #Nonprofit Media in Digital Age" Webinar - Wed. 4/17 http://t.co/qGJELt3UoY v @DC_Bar ht @EricNewton1 #journalism
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What's #innovative about @TexasTribune's business plan is organization’s balanced allocation of resources http://t.co/WVf7VKvV0T #journalism
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.@TexasTribune: building a model for sustainable local #journalism http://t.co/WVf7VKvV0T More on our $1.5M investment v @louiegilot
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Congrats! RT @newsu: @newsu turns 8 today! Thanks @knightfdn for helping jumpstart us and for supporting #journalism #training.
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8 lessons from #elearning that can apply to #journalism http://t.co/DwVYP88Vrj v @Poynter @newsu
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Media policy: think globally, act locally http://t.co/GoQ7v9HP40 v @EricNewton1 #COF13 #journalism
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MT @ONA: Doing great data #journalism? Today is last day to submit your work to Data Journalism Awards. http://t.co/lQnH1LWkAn #ddj
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Congrats to Bill Adair -@AdairPolitiFact - who will become a Knight Professor of #Journalism at @DukeU http://t.co/v2kLZ2cAWm
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MT @MercerYou: Entrepreneur @AndrewHaeg joins @MercerCCJ as it reinvents #journalism. http://t.co/z6dYgUGUa9 http://t.co/2b99L043nh
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#Journalism disrupted - join @michaelmaness for community luncheon in #Akron on April 26 http://t.co/LXLuDLMVeA v @JenThomasTweet
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MT @journalistics: @Source Launches as Website for #Journalism Code Sharing: http://t.co/IvGsCqEHua (http://t.co/l7z8pe3boL)
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Who has a smart phone? Who had the exact same phone in 1990? No one. http://t.co/lY38Rx7JpS #journalism
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A 10 minute trip through 400 years of the past & future of media http://t.co/eq6DrGY22E v @EricNewton1 #journalism
Publications
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Financial Oversight Lessons
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Ushahidi Kenya Evaluation: Case Studies
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How people get local news and information in different communities
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Experiments in Media Innovation: A Look at the 2009 Knight News Challenge Winners
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Digital Training Comes of Age
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Social Impact Games: Do They Work?
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State of Funding in Information and Media among Community and Place-based Foundations - Feb. 2012
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Knight Community Information Challenge: 2011 Evaluation Findings
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Real Time Charitable Giving
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News Improved: NPR’s Transition from Public Radio to Public Media
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Getting Local: How Nonprofit News Ventures Seek Sustainability
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Assessing Community Information Needs
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Reinventing Journalism
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How people learn about their local community
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Future of the First Amendment 2011
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Re-Imagining Journalism: Local News for a Networked World
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Center for Future Civic Media Assessment Report
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An Interim Review of the Knight News Challenge
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Reinvigorating Journalism Education
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From Ruins of War, A Nation's History Preserved
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Measuring the Online Impact of Your Information Projects
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Crossroads Charlotte
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News21 Initiative
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General Assessment Resources & Tools
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NPR Digital Training Program Assessment
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International Center for Journalists
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Center for Public Integrity – Digital Transitions
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Knight Case Studies Initiative
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Center for Investigative Reporting, California Watch
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Games and Community Building
In The News
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From Cronkite to Couric: Internet Archive gets $1 million to expand TV news collection
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Sisters, once tornado victims, create social media for Moore
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National voting rights project wins SPJ first amendment award
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IRS foot-dragging on tax-exempt status is stifling nonprofit investigative journalism
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How J-schools are helping students develop entrepreneurial journalism skills
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This cutting-edge map tool turns anyone into a cartographer
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MapBox launches iD, a fast map editor for OpenStreetMap, enabling better contribution of data
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Watch out, Google: here comes OpenStreetMap
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Knight, Gates donate $3.25M to project aimed at media metrics
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Center will offer new tools for measuring the impact of media beyond numbers
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Knight Foundation donates to create Mobile Media Lab
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Texas Tribune scores $1.5 million Knight Foundation grant
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Texas Tribune scores $1.5 million Knight Foundation grant
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Google just hired The whole team from cool SXSW startup, Behavio
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12 universities join Carnegie-Knight News21 veterans investigation
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Le Monde adds MapBox’s open source maps to its new website to highlight where news is happening
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Stick a pin on it
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Some Knight News Challenge semifinalists sound awfully familiar
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Does McClatchy ever wish it was the target in the Knight Ridder deal?
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Connecting Citizens To Their Government By Turning It Into A Game
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The LAB Miami: turning South Florida into the next startup hub
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Montclair State launching partnership with 6 N.J. media companies; expanding new communications school
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How GenderTracker analyzes gender bias
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Counting down to the Open Gov News Challenge 2013
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Foundations at SXSW are “Engineering Collisions”
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Knight Foundation backs 8 new projects with its Prototype Fund to foster innovative journalism
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8 experimental tools to change media for the better
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Babel of video
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Knight funds tools to fight street harassment, gender imbalance, and data without context
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Data and UGC tools among projects to receive prototype funding
Featured Journalism & Media Projects (3 of 986)
Browse ProjectsOwn Local
Own Local sells digital media services to small and medium businesses (SMBs) in partnership with local news publishers, enabling publishers to leverage their local brand and provide a one-stop shop for SMB digital services and improving revenue for small and regional publishers in particular.
Poderopedia
To create an editorial and crowd-sourced database that allows visualizing the relationships among political, civic and business leaders
Abayima
For content distribution and publishing via SIM cards for sharing information in technologically-limited or high-risk situations
About our Journalism & Media Strategy
@michaelmaness on Knight's journalism and media innovation strategy
Knight Foundation aims to help sustain democracy by leading journalism to its best possible future in the 21st century.
Media Innovation: Since 2007, Knight has invested more than $100 million in new technologies and techniques, including in more than 200 community news and information experiments. Its media innovation portfolio seeks to improve public media, discover new platforms for investigative reporting, increase digital and media literacy, promote universal broadband access and support a free and open Web.
Journalistic Excellence: As the nation’s leading journalism funder, Knight funding has supported training for more than 100,000 journalists worldwide, and has helped to transform journalism education with the college-level Carnegie-Knight Initiative, major fellowship programs at Stanford, Michigan and Harvard and 22 Knight Chairs with endowments of more than $50 million.
Freedom of Expression: The foundation helps safeguard the rights of journalists worldwide and supports public information campaigns about the value of freedom of information and open government.
The foundation has invested more than $454 million in more than 1,000 journalism and media grants since 1950.
Journalism & Media Innovation Project Categories
Staff
Michael Maness
VP/Journalism and Media Innovation
John Bracken
Dir/Journalism and Media Innovation
Chris Barr
Media Innovation Associate
Chris Sopher
Journalism Program Associate
Marie Gilot
Media Innovation Associate
Hallie Atkins
Executive Assistant
Megan Zimroth
Media Innovation Assistant
