Before Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and all the other platforms that we now umbrella under the term “social media,” sites for real-time social interaction via the internet already existed––computer games. Since its earliest days, online gaming has wrangled with issues around social organization and community formation, harassment and gatekeeping, commercialized publics, and forms of governance and […]
New investments bolster artists and arts organizations using technology, 2022 Knight New Work winners, 2022 Knight Arts Champions and a new $40.7 million investment in Miami artists and arts organizations. MIAMI — On November 28, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation unveiled its fifth major wave of arts grants in a campaign to […]
If the American experiment is to succeed, we must improve the quality of our conversations—our political, academic, and civic conversations. I can appreciate the skepticism with which this assertion will be met. As I write, the country is in the throes of a global pandemic, unemployment has soared to heights not reached since the Great […]
When thinking about the problems facing American democracy today, none strikes us as quite so potent, quite so insidious, or quite so devastating as affective polarization—the increasing animosity between social and political groups. It is characterized by the a prioridistrust people feel when listening to someone with a different point of view. Affective polarization is […]
American democracy is deep in the throes of an existential crisis that has cast into relief the ways in which “democracy” has been an aspirational illusion for so many Americans. From escalating inequality, a botched pandemic response, and rampant corruption at the highest levels to endemic violence, against Black and brown communities in particular, we […]
Diversify, diversify, diversify is the motto as local news publishers come up with creative business ideas to reach sustainability There was a time not that long ago when local news was supported by a few simple revenue streams: advertising, subscriptions and memberships. As legacy local media organizations struggle to maintain those revenue lines, the upstart […]
Eric Goldman: Hello everyone, my name is Eric Goldman. I’m a professor of law at Santa Clara University School of Law, and today I’m here with Nirav Tolia, who is going to talk about his journeys through internet entrepreneurship and some of the ways in which his experiences could help us understand and think more […]
As the local news marketplace transforms, these new ways of doing business could take hold next year and beyond Predictions are a tricky business, but there is one sure thing for 2020: local news publishers cannot depend on the old ways of doing business. The time for chain newspapers wielding a monopoly in communities is […]
Knight Foundation asked four leading scholars and community leaders to consider this question: “What is the most important trend that will transform how Americans think about community over the next decade?” Ali Noorani, Executive Director, the National Immigration Forum, shares insights below. Click here to download and view all essays. Unprecedented global migration, how it […]
Nikole Hannah-Jones is an investigative journalist and a co-founder of the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting. Today, Knight Foundation is announcing $150,000 in new support for the society to increase diversity in the ranks of investigative reporters. A few years ago, I was sitting in the lobby at a computer-assisted reporting conference with three other […]
PART OF A KNIGHT FOUNDATION SERIES ON PUBLIC MEDIA 50 YEARS AFTER THE PASSAGE OF THE PUBLIC BROADCASTING ACT I would want public media to be a widely-dispersed system of nonprofit, user-supported local news organizations specializing in public service journalism and publishing primarily online, primarily in text — in other words, a ProPublica in every […]