This month’s Carnegie Reporter magazine contains an in-depth feature about the News21 Initiative, a Knight-Carnegie collaboration we’ve written about before. From the story: From the start, the News21 fellows have faced two daunting challenges: to come up with stories of national importance and to tell them in ways that break the mold of traditional news […]
I’ve written before about News21, the Knight-funded initiative pulling together students from university newsrooms all across the country to produce innovative multimedia journalism. The project was intended partly to produce work that can be syndicated in other newsrooms, and it is. In fact, it’s being syndicated to affiliates of one of the largest media organizations […]
From Eric Newton, VP/Journalism, Knight Foundation: What’s cool about News 21 — the investigative reporting project now in its fourth year at’top U.S. journalism schools — is not just that the students are producing Changing America stories worthy of being used by the nation’s largest newspaper group.’ It’s that they are also inventing new digital […]
News21 has pulled together more 90 students from university newsrooms across the country to produce a number of deep multimedia reports, freely available to newsrooms everywhere. Funded by the Knight Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation, the initiative expanded significantly over the last year, now including students from 12 different newsrooms who have produced more than […]
Jose Zamora is a Journalism Program Associate at Knight Foundation Local media is the focus of the journalism conference circuit. Estimates claim $100 billion in local-ad revenue could support local news and information projects, if it could only be successfully tapped. This follows the Knight Commission for the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy […]
From Eric Newton, VP of Journalism, Knight Foundation: Stop the presses … The Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly has published a piece of writing with a’relatively good’Flesch readability score‘… “Changes in Professionalism…”‘(Summer 2009 edition), by David H. Weaver et. al., starts this way: “In 2002, Knight Ridder was one of the biggest newspaper companies in the United States. Time […]
News 21, a collaborative effort among over 90 journalism fellows from 12 top journalism schools, has launched its new web site. Another project of News 21 is Syracuse University‘s video journalism contest for teens called “The Young and the Wireless.” Contestants must create a “webisode” in the style of a soap opera. ‘ News 21 […]
Eric Newton, Vice President of Knight Foundation’s Journalism Program, announced Knight’s Investigative Reporting Initiative at the Investigative Reporters and Editors’ annual conference. The initiative will help grantees develop new economic models for investigative reporting on digital platforms, and will begin with a $15 million initial investment. Newton announced Knight’s three new grants to the Center […]
From the press release: Seeking to change the way journalism is taught in the United States, Carnegie Corporation of New York and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation are investing more than $11 million in the expansion of a national initiative to adapt journalism education to the challenges of a struggling news industry. […]
Article from the 2006 Knight Foundation Annual Report The digital revolution is not for the faint of heart. At Columbia University’s prestigious Graduate School of Journalism, Dean Nicholas Lemann bridges the practice and teaching of journalism, on campus and in the field. The New Yorker writer is leading a high-profile effort to develop a series […]
An Article from Knight Foundation’s 2006 Annual Report January The Immigration Funders Network, a group of national funders interested in the impact of immigration on children and families, gathers in Miami. Above, Ismael Ahmed, executive director of the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS), a Knight grantee in Dearborn, Mich., speaks at […]
JOURNALISM PROGRAM When the Knight brothers owned newspapers, in the words of Jack Knight, they worked to “bestir the people into an awareness of their own condition, provide inspiration for their thoughts and rouse them to pursue their true interests.” Today, a stunning array of handheld devices is turning life into a guided tour. But […]