Liam Neeson in “A Walk Among the Tombstones.” When the new Liam Neeson thriller, A Walk Among the Tombstones, makes its debut Friday, at least one Miami man will be watching with more than the usual interest. That’s because Carlos Rafael Rivera wrote the score for the film, and the University of Miami lecturer found […]
Photo credit: Chris Barr. Sometimes you have a great idea, and you just need time, space and some capital to test it. Seventeen projects will get that chance as the latest recipients of Prototype Fund grants from Knight Foundation. The Prototype Fund is designed to give people with great concepts for media and information projects grants of $35,000 […]
Knight Foundation’s journalism and media innovation team gets much well-deserved attention for its media innovation work. Less discussed, but no less important, is the education of thousands of students and professionals each year through $200 million in endowed programs Knight has built over several decades to advance journalism excellence. There are dozens of Knight-endowed chair and mid-career […]
Pop Up Archive’s ever-growing collection of public sounds features Pacifica Radio Archives, Illinois Public Media, Studs Terkel and many others. Photo courtesy of Illinois Public Media. Anne Wootton and Bailey Smith are co-founders of Pop Up Archive, a winner of the 2012 Knight News Challenge: Data. This week they are launching the service, which helps journalists, archivists and others […]
By Bill Haugen, VocalEssence “You’ve got what you need inside of you,” explains WITNESS guest artist Melanie DeMore, modeling the art of body percussion in the middle of a circle of teenaged boys and girls at the Hennepin County Home School. “Just break it down into little pieces.” Timid and skeptical at first, the students […]
A solitary confinement replica in the center of the Ice Box. Crane Arts is in the midst of a vast exhibition organized by InLiquid that explores and ignites discussion about the challenging and often overlooked world of juvenile detention and youth incarceration. “Juvenile In Justice” comprises work by three artists: Richard Ross, Roberto Lugo and Mat Tomezsko, which […]
M. Bridget Duffy, M.D., is chief medical officer of Vocera Communications and co-founder of ExperiaHealth, a collaborative that seeks to humanize health care. Her post is part of our Knight News Challenge: Health series. The challenge, which offers $2.2 million in funding for ideas to help harness data and information for the health of communities, […]
Esther Dyson is an angel investor focusing largely on health issues, chairman of EDventure Holdings and founder of the Health Initiative Coordinating Council (HICCup). Photo credit: Flickr user Bush 41 Library. First, let me do what you should always do when looking at data or content anywhere: Ask where it came from and why you are seeing it. Who is showing […]
By Sebastian Spreng, Visual Artist and Classical Music Writer I have to admit that when David Finckel asked me to be Music@Menlo’s “2013 Visual Artist” I had little idea of what it was about or what I should do. Trusting the judgment of the celebrated cellist, who has just left his post in the legendary Emerson String […]
At juried art shows, you rarely if ever get a rationale for why the judges of the particular event selected the works they did for awards and prizes. The same can be said for “Brushstrokes—Here and Now,” which is the name for the 80th anniversary Women’s Art League of Akron exhibit on display at Summit […]
The O’Shaughnessy was quieter than usual before last night’s show, particularly given the size of the crowd that braved the rain to see Emily Johnson/Catalyst’s one-night-only regional premiere of “Niicugni.” The light was dim, and there were homemade lanterns suspended from the rafters above both stage and audience, but little else by way of props […]
Photo credit: Flickr user Samuel Mann In a 2011 essay, MIT’s Joichi Ito championed the idea that the architecture of the Internet and free software have slashed the cost of innovation so much, that it’s cheaper to try something than to “sit around and try to figure out whether to try something.” In this spirit, last […]
Today in Miami, we at Knight Foundation are renewing our commitment to helping community and place-based funders meet their local community information needs. For the next three years, we’ll be both expanding and tailoring the Knight Community Information Challenge, which provides funding and the expertise needed for the foundations to invest in media projects that help ensure […]
Above: Richard Gingras, head of Google News, speaks at TechRanking 2012. Photo Credit: Flickr user California Watch. At last week’s Chicago convention of journalism and “mass communication” educators, a letter from foundation representatives got a lot of attention. In my opinion, given the digital revolution, it was a rather tame observation. Funders said journalism education should 1. Speed up the pace […]
The National Conference on Citizenship blogs about the success of its Civic Data Challenge, whch was presented in partnership with Knight Foundation. The Civic Data Challenge was launched by NCoC in April 2012 to bring new eyes, minds, findings, and skill sets to “civic health” data ― information that shows how citizens are participating in their neighborhoods, communities […]