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 […]

PART OF A KNIGHT FOUNDATION SERIES ON PUBLIC MEDIA 50 YEARS AFTER THE PASSAGE OF THE PUBLIC BROADCASTING ACT In mid-1971, less than a year after the Public Broadcasting Service was created, a 35-year-old lawyer in the Nixon White House warned that conservatives were being “confronted with a long-range problem of significant social consequences – […]

PART OF A KNIGHT FOUNDATION SERIES ON PUBLIC MEDIA 50 YEARS AFTER THE PASSAGE OF THE PUBLIC BROADCASTING ACT “I like to pay my taxes; with them I buy civilization.” It’s time to reinvest in public broadcasters. They are creaky vessels, battered by decades of cutbacks and challenges, but they’re still one of our best […]

PART OF A KNIGHT FOUNDATION SERIES ON PUBLIC MEDIA 50 YEARS AFTER THE PASSAGE OF THE PUBLIC BROADCASTING ACT Public media isn’t just an industry or a service. It’s a mission, not yet accomplished. “In public radio, there’s this person we consider, called ‘Mary,’” said Sarah Alvarez, a recent John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at […]

PART OF A KNIGHT FOUNDATION SERIES ON PUBLIC MEDIA 50 YEARS AFTER THE PASSAGE OF THE PUBLIC BROADCASTING ACT   Fifty years ago, Congress passed the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967. The Act institutionalized nonprofit public media, creating the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which itself helped create and continues to fund the two largest and […]

PART OF A KNIGHT FOUNDATION SERIES ON PUBLIC MEDIA 50 YEARS AFTER THE PASSAGE OF THE PUBLIC BROADCASTING ACT Whether public media should even exist is a large, almost philosophical question. But if they are to exist, then they should meet the test that applies for any other federal program. America’s public media are beloved […]

In 2007 Knight Foundation announced the winners of the first Knight News Challenge, which sought to find and support bold experiments that use the digital world to connect people to the real world. To explore what we’ve learned about the internet over the past decade and what we might expect in the next one, we’ve invited 13 […]

Since its inception, the Knight Arts Challenge has helped bring to life 335 projects around South Florida, part of the more than $122 million investment the foundation has made in the local arts since 2005. Through the challenge, the foundation aims to make art general in Miami, so that it is seen, felt and heard […]

In 2017, the Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program, in partnership with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, established the Knight Commission on Trust, Media and Democracy. Currently, trust in the major institutions of American democracy has fallen to troubling lows amid a rapidly changing information ecosystem. Without trust, democracy cannot function. It […]

MONDAY, JUNE 12 NOON – 3:00 PM – Registration Open at EAST Miami 2:00 – 4:00 PM – EAST MIAMI — 788 BRICKELL PLAZA Insider Tours of Miami (Optional) Meet in lobby of EAST Miami. Join Miami civic innovators for behind-the-scenes tours and talks. Choose one from the following: Tour The Underline. Tour the forthcoming Underline, […]