Jeff Ubben, chairman of The Bay Citizen’s board of directors, addresses Bay Citizen staff after a merger between The Bay Citizen and the Center for Investigative Reporting was approved. Photo Credit: The Bay Citizen Two leading nonprofit news organizations, the Center for Investigative Reporting and The Bay Citizen, have formally agreed to merge their operations, creating […]
Article · March 29, 2012 by Elizabeth R. Miller
Photo Credit: Flickr user wvs A new set of resources will help communities become more digitally inclusive places to live. An estimated 100 million Americans lack a broadband connection at home, putting them at a disadvantage when it comes to schooling, job searching and more. As access to broadband becomes increasingly important, communities are looking […]
Article · March 26, 2012 by Elizabeth R. Miller
This post is one of a series focused on how community foundations are investing in news and information projects to make an impact on issues they care about. The following video was filmed during Knight’s 2012 Media Learning Seminar, where five community foundations gave brief, TED-like talks on how the projects they launched are impacting […]
Article · March 22, 2012 by Elizabeth R. Miller
Recently, YouthMovements.org launched to more efficiently amplify the role of young people in creating positive social change. “The new site will aggregate and coalesce youth-led movements around the world to share data and to collaborate more effectively. But it will also inspire new youth to become more involved in what matters to them,” Jeff Coates, […]
Article · March 21, 2012 by Elizabeth R. Miller
The newly released 2012 State of the Media report provides an in-depth look at how community news sites are faring. The report, released by Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism interviewed key experts in the industry, including Knight’s Eric Newton and Michele McLellan, journalist and Knight consultant. Here are some highlights: Revenue Streams […]
Article · March 20, 2012 by Elizabeth R. Miller
Photos by Teru Kuwayama Basetrack, a social media reporting project that accompanied a marine battalion on a deployment in Afghanistan, will be adapted into a series of theater performance next week at Juilliard in New York. The multi-media performances will include projections of photos, videos, Facebook transcripts-as-dialogue, tweets and live performance. The project, a 2010 […]
Article · March 20, 2012 by Elizabeth R. Miller
Earlier this week, the New York Times Room for Debate forum asked the following questions: “Fans are busy filling out their N.C.A.A. brackets this week, but for student-athletes, the madness is year-round. How can we once again emphasize the “collegiate” part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association? How can the Association, the member colleges and the sponsors […]
Article · March 17, 2012 by Elizabeth R. Miller
Today, find out which students have won a $5,000 scholarship for using social media creatively to celebrate the First Amendment through the #FreeToTweet scholarship competition. More than 17,000 messages with the #FreetoTweet hashtag flooded Twitter and other social media on Dec. 15, sent by people sharing how they enjoy their right to free expression. The […]
Article · March 16, 2012 by Elizabeth R. Miller
Some 15 million books have been scanned and made at least partially available immediately to someone walking into a library or searching on the web, as a result of the Google Books Library Project. “Libraries are no longer limited in what they can make available to their patrons by what can fit within the four […]
Article · March 15, 2012 by Elizabeth R. Miller
A visualization of Funf. Design: Cody Sumter Last night, Funf, an open sensing framework, won the 2012 SXSW Accelerator Competition for the News Related Technology track. Funf, which launched in October, explores how mobile phones can be used as sensor platforms to track the location, movement, app activity and extended networks of its users and communities. With Funf, […]
Article · March 14, 2012 by Elizabeth R. Miller
Video: The Urban Innovation Exchange is chronicling small-scale community projects making a difference in Detroit.“ “One big question we constantly ask as we think about community grantmaking is how do we go from pockets of impact to real strategic change?” Rishi Jaitly, program director/Detroit at Knight Foundation, asked this morning at a SXSW panel. He […]
Article · March 13, 2012 by Elizabeth R. Miller