Poet Campbell McGrath at the announcement of the 2011 Knight Arts Challenge Miami winners Four artists have been named USA Knight Fellows for 2011 by the national grantmaking and advocacy group United States Artists. Each will receive $50,000 in unrestricted funds to use as they choose for their work in architecture and design, dance, literature and media, the […]
Article · December 5, 2011 by Elizabeth R. Miller
TEDxWomen attendees at a lunch hosted by Knight Foundation. Photo credit: Michael Priest Photography Does community engagement necessarily follow information? Has technology and the new ability to make connections within communities killed traditional roles of citizenship? If you could do anything to increase the pool of informed, engaged citizens, what would it be? These were […]
Article · December 1, 2011 by Elizabeth R. Miller
Hello, welcome to @KnightFdn, Knight Foundation’s way of bringing you brief updates about our efforts to foster informed & engaged communities. -Knight Arts Challenge #Miami announces winning projects that bring the community together through the #arts – @BostonGlobe on how $18.4m in @knightfdn grants are fostering a ‘critical mass’ of tech outreach projects – […]
Article · December 1, 2011 by Elizabeth R. Miller
Earlier this week, 31 ideas for the South Florida arts received $2.9 million in funding as winners of the Knight Arts Challenge Miami. Yesterday, we Storified the Knight Arts Challenge and highlighted several aspects from the event announcing the winners including: the 613th Random Act of Culture, performed by the Miami Music Project, a poem […]
Article · November 30, 2011 by Elizabeth R. Miller
“Place Matters,” a weekly radio program, is being featured in The Atlantic as among one of the “best venues to tell the story” of placemaking and community engagement. Profiling the innovating placemaking work of various cities, the program also showcases successful ideas from everyday citizens who are involved in making their communities a better place […]
Article · November 30, 2011 by Elizabeth R. Miller
Update – Dec. 2: Watch the video from the session, “Covering Controversy,” with Penn State’s Knight Chair in Sports Journalism and Society Malcolm Moran and leading journalists. More info on the event is below. Tonight, a conversation with major sports journalists in the wake of the alleged child sex abuse scandal at Penn State will […]
Article · November 29, 2011 by Elizabeth R. Miller
For their work navigating the future of global media, MIT’s Joi Ito and Ethan Zuckerman have been named as top global thinkers by Foreign Policy Magazine. Joi Ito Ethan Zuckerman In its coverage, the magazine offers a portrait of 2011’s global marketplace of ideas and the 100 thinkers who make them. About Ito, a Knight […]
Article · November 29, 2011 by Elizabeth R. Miller
Image courtesy of Flickr user Matt Wade Major journalism groups are calling on the Supreme Court to allow audio and video coverage of upcoming health-care reform arguments. The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press has petitioned to include the recordings in three cases involving proposed federal health-care legislation. Delaying the release of argument recordings […]
Article · November 23, 2011 by Elizabeth R. Miller
Hello, welcome to @KnightFdn, Knight Foundation’s new way of bringing you brief updates about our efforts to foster informed & engaged communities. -How the #arts can help define community and create a sense of place in #Philadelphia #SanJose & #Detroit –Digital literacy classes help #Miami teens think critically about their lives, community – Four insights into […]
Article · November 17, 2011 by Elizabeth R. Miller
Source: 2011 Scholastic Journalism Census A new study reveals that while student media presence remains strong, only one-third of schools surveyed have any online student media. Additionally, schools that are smaller and poorer or have large minority populations are more likely to have no student media. The study by the Center for Scholastic Journalism is one […]
Article · November 9, 2011 by Elizabeth R. Miller