EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In 2011, the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation committed funding for Arizona State University (ASU) to operate the News21 in-depth digital journalism program. Since 2011, more than 360 students from more than 40 universities have taken part in the program. Participants have produced more […]
We conduct robust assessments of our program investments to understand their overall impact and progress towards a desired outcome. We do this to further impact, guide future investments, establish best practices and to drive outcomes. We publish insights so that others in the field may benefit from our learning. Past Knight assessments can be found […]
Nominate a South Florida journalist for the Esserman-Knight Journalism Awards! I have learned quickly one of the realities of philanthropy: You cannot fund every idea you like. In fact, you can’t fund most ideas you like. Even foundations with substantial endowments have limits on what they can spend in a given year and, to be most effective, […]
In a year full of intense news cycles, Americans’ media diets have fluctuated dramatically. Current attention levels to local news are at a three-year low after peaking during the early part of the COVID-19 pandemic. With national politics dominating the agenda in recent months, attention to local news has faded. However, local outlets have largely […]
Bill Adair @BillAdairDuke Bill Adair is the Knight Professor of Journalism and Public Policy at Duke University and the creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning website PolitiFact. At Duke, he heads the journalism program as director of the DeWitt Wallace Center, and conducts research on fact-checking in the Reporters’ Lab. His awards include the Pulitzer Prize […]
The Carnegie-Knight News21 program, a national multi-university reporting initiative headquartered at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, released a major investigation Saturday into the issues surrounding voting rights in America.
Lucy Bernholz Lucy Bernholz is a philanthropy wonk. She is seeking to understand how social goods are created, funded and distributed in the digital age – what she calls “The Future of Good.” She writes extensively on philanthropy, technology, information, and policy on her award winning blog, philanthropy2173.com. This work led The Huffington Post to […]
Journalism is ripe for reinvention. The right journalism schools can become engines that drive innovation. Creative minds at forward-facing research universities can rise to the challenge of renewing the role of journalism in society. Take those three statements, sprinkle on what I say below, and you’ll see why I’ve decided that Arizona State University’s Cronkite […]
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Gun Wars: A News21 investigation of rights and regulations in America from News21. The telling of a story is no longer simply a story, but journalism woven with a richness that cannot be captured in words alone. In this year’s Carnegie-Knight News21 project “Gun Wars,” an investigation of gun rights and regulations, we challenged fellows […]
Veterans wait for disability checks as VA struggles to reduce backlog from News21 on Vimeo. Len Downie is the Weil Family Professor of Journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University and a vice president at large of The Washington Post. In a significant example of the continuing impact of the 2012 […]