Knight President Alberto Ibargüen speaking at the Knight-MIT Civic Media Conference. Credit: Chris Barr. Knight Foundation will deepen its support for an open and accessible Internet in coming months, President Alberto Ibargüen said Monday, after announcing nine winners of a Knight News Challenge dedicated to the topic. In a speech that equated Internet openness with […]
Article · June 24, 2014 by Andrew Sherry
Photos by Emily Munroe, 8-80 Cities. What do bike lanes and parklets have to do with supporting informed and engaged communities, Knight Foundation’s mission? Plenty, it was clear from the “8-80 Cities Forum: The Doable City” held this week in Chicago, attended by civic innovators from 19 communities where John S. and James L. Knight […]
Article · June 19, 2014 by Andrew Sherry
The first day of Doable Cities included a neighborhood walkability tour. Photos: Emily Munroe. Innovation can be a lonely task. But not this week in Chicago, where more than 150 civic innovators are gathering for the “8-80 Cities Forum: The Doable City” through Wednesday. “Doable doesn’t mean easy. It means possible,” said urban expert Gil […]
Article · June 17, 2014 by Andrew Sherry
Almost every commencement speaker urges graduates to change the world. Knight Foundation President Alberto Ibargüen went further in addressing Arizona State University journalism graduates, not only urging them to disrupt the status quo but offering money to help. Ibargüen, addressing 255 graduating students of ASU’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, announced a $250,000 grant […]
Article · May 16, 2014 by Andrew Sherry
Photo credit: Tom Clark. Overview: Knight Foundation hosted 100 civic innovators at a Civic Innovation in Action Studio in Miami May 12 -14 to explore ways to harness talent, advance opportunity and promote robust engagement. Participants in the “Robust Engagement” discussion at the Civic Innovation in Action Studio produced five remarkably concrete ideas to drive civic participation. The ideas […]
Article · May 15, 2014 by Andrew Sherry
Photo credit: Tom Clark. The engagement was robust on the first day of the Civic Innovation in Action Studio on encouraging robust civic engagement; so much so that the participants reshaped the program mid-afternoon. RELATED LINKS “Putting ideas into action to build better cities” by Carol Coletta on KnightBlog “Learning Lab gathers ideas on promoting community […]
Article · May 14, 2014 by Andrew Sherry
Above: Richard Florida kicks off ‘Start-Up City: Miami’. Photo credit: Michael D. Bolden. Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine has become a believer in Miami’s potential as a tech startup hub. The mayor, who notoriously called it “the dumbest idea in the world” for Miami Beach to do anything other than travel and tourism, agreed to be interviewed […]
Article · April 1, 2014 by Andrew Sherry
During my time at SXSW, I stopped by the LABRARY, which describes itself as “a pop-up experimental library.” Born out of a seminar at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the LABRARY popped up on a museum lawn a block from the epicenter of SXSW’s frantic activity. The inflatable, zip-up reading room provides a welcome […]
Article · March 11, 2014 by Andrew Sherry
Photo credit: Flickr user Cliff Muller. When Triptrotting CEO Aigerim Shorman was looking for a place to launch her company’s new mobile recommendation app Wist, she didn’t choose San Francisco, where the travel startup is based. Instead, she chose Miami. An unconventional choice for a startup backed by Google Ventures, Idealab and other California-based investors? Perhaps, but Shorman said she had […]
Article · November 26, 2013 by Andrew Sherry
What’s in a name? For Knight Plaza in Miami, it’s the connection between art, science, journalism and people, a gathering spot for the community. Knight Foundation donated $10 million each to the new Pérez Art Museum Miami and the Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science, in downtown Miami’s Museum Park on Biscayne Bay. The […]
Article · November 21, 2013 by Andrew Sherry
What’s in a name? For Knight Plaza in Miami, it’s the connection between art, science, journalism and people, a gathering spot for the community. Knight Foundation donated $10 million each to the new Pérez Art Museum Miami and the Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science, in downtown Miami’s Museum Park on Biscayne Bay. The Pérez Art Museum […]
Article · November 21, 2013 by Andrew Sherry