Carol Coletta speaks at the National Immigrant Integration Conference via YouTube Cities should compete to attract and retain immigrants, because nothing does more for a community’s economic future than talent, Knight Foundation Vice President Carol Coletta said Monday. Coletta, who heads Knight’s Community and National Initiatives program, was speaking during a session on “Welcoming Cities” […]
Article · November 18, 2013 by Andrew Sherry
Above: Norm Pearlstine at the “Media Minds” breakfast on Nov. 14, 2013. Photo credit: Gabe Palacio Photography. Look inside the mind of Time Inc. Chief Content Officer Norm Pearlstine and you’ll see excitement over the future of Time and deep concern, on a personal level, about the future of local news. That’s what emerged as […]
Article · November 14, 2013 by Andrew Sherry
Above, AOL’s CEO of Brand Group, Susan Lyne, and company CEO Tim Armstrong AOL is deliberately steering away from the engineer-driven, male-dominated Internet culture spawned by Silicon Valley and focusing on creating the Internet programming that people really want, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong told media industry leaders at a Knight Foundation-sponsored event Thursday in New York. Armstrong, […]
Article · June 17, 2013 by Andrew Sherry
Above: Talia Leman, CEO and Founder of RandomKid, addresses the 2013 Ashoka Future Forum. When you bring a few hundred social entrepreneurs together to talk about the future of news, you can be sure you are going to hear a lot about using media for social good. That’s exactly what happened last week at the Ashoka […]
Article · June 3, 2013 by Andrew Sherry
NewME Accelerator, a nationally acclaimed program to jump-start tech businesses, is coming to Miami. NewME will run its first ever Popup, an intensive three-night version of its Silicon Valley program, in Miami on Nov. 12-14, with sponsorship from Knight Foundation. Miami entrepreneurs will get critical advice from leading venture capitalists, participate in hands-on classes, and prepare […]
Article · October 30, 2012 by Andrew Sherry