Since 1986, the foundation has made a series of major grants to support midcareer education, primarily journalism fellowship programs at prominent universities. Knight Centers Knight Center for International Media (U of Miami) Knight Digital Media Center (USC and Berkeley) Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas (U of Texas) Tow-Knight Center for Digital Journalism (Columbia) […]

VIDEO ARCHIVE CONTENTS Monday, February 20 10:00 a.m.: Welcome: Alberto Ibargüen, President and CEO, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation [Video] VIDEO: “Social Media Revolution” on YouTube VIDEO: Alberto Ibargüen welcomes participants to seminar 10:15 a.m.: Plenary Session: Dan Gillmor, Director, Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship, Arizona State University. VIDEO: Dan Gillmor at […]

Investing in Media Projects: Community and place-based foundations are becoming players in the news and information field — and expect to increase their funding. Mayur Patel: How and why community and place-based foundations are becoming players in the news and information field Report: State of Funding in Information and Media among Community and Place-based Foundations […]

The Knight Community Information Challenge helps community and place-based foundations play leading roles in meeting their community’s information needs. Knight Foundation started the initiative in 2008 as seismic shifts in the media industry became apparent and community leaders searched for ways to help keep people informed about important issues. The effort built on recommendations from the Knight […]

Case studies: How four community information projects went from idea to impact (Feb. 2013) This study – published in partnership with FSG and Network Impact – provides a behind-the-scenes look at four foundations. We asked: Why are they working in media? How does that connect to their overall goals? How did they go about doing […]

The information in our study covers the Gary, Indiana, Metropolitan Division. In each community, the Knight Soul of the Community study identified factors that emotionally attach residents to where they live. Some of these community characteristics that drive attachment were rated highly by residents, and are therefore community strengths while others were rated lower, making […]

To exemplify the transformational ideas that have won the Challenge, past winners of the Community Information Challenge are profiled in Opportunities for Leadership 2011. Opportunities for Leadership: Meeting Community Information Needs 2011 How a foundation reinvented itself for community change: The Community Foundation of Greater Buffalo How a catalytic foundation solidified its community leadership: The […]

How does your community compare to the 26 others we’ve studied? Use the links below at left to get a quick glance at how each of the communities fared in our surveys of residents in 2008, 2009 and 2010. The colors of the dots on the map reflect the community’s ranking on the scale in […]

Great schools, affordable health care and safe streets all help create strong communities. But is there something deeper that draws people to a city – that makes them want to put down roots and build a life? Knight Soul of the Community (SOTC) is a three-year study conducted by Gallup of the 26 John S. […]

2008 MEDIA LEARNING SEMINAR Building Healthy Communities.pdf Beaudoin Thorson.pdf Coleman.pdf Mcleod community integration.pdf Moy.pdf Norris television.pdf O brien01.pdf Onyx bullen.pdf Rothenbuhler.pdf Scheufele.pdf Woolcock economic development.pdf Western et al.pdf Uslaner.pdf Zaller new standard.pdf Video links Judy Woodruff (Keynote Address) – Role of Media in America Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Q & A […]

Resource: Community News Sites Knight Citizen News Network has a “things we like” feature that highlights specific tools and best practices for community and hyper-local Web sites. Lots of very specific ideas and examples here rather than a broad formula for a site. Village Soup operates multiple Web sites that are highly local and feature […]