Above: 2014 Knight-Mozilla fellows. In newsrooms around the globe, data experts are embracing daily challenges from their ever-demanding, increasingly info-savvy audience. Related Link Applications for the 2015 Knight-Mozilla OpenNews Fellowship are open through Aug. 16. The third class of Knight-Mozilla OpenNews Fellows is developing solutions to these demands in seven newsrooms: Internews in Kenya, […]
Article · August 14, 2014 by Jenna Buehler
The eight 2013 Knight-Mozilla Fellows aim to build a diverse ecosystem around open web development that connects traditional journalists and technologists. Photo credit: Knight-Mozilla Fellows Related Link Apply to become a 2014 Knight-Mozilla fellow by Aug. 17. The 2013 Knight-Mozilla fellows are data-savvy experts embedded in eight of the world’s most influential newsrooms. Their mission: […]
Article · July 17, 2013 by Jenna Buehler
Above: Walter Isaacson. As one of the most preeminent biographers of our time, Walter Isaacson has shared the stories of the world’s greatest innovators: Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin. Yesterday, as part of a Knight Foundation organized luncheon, Isaacson, President and CEO of the Aspen Institute, spoke to Miami city leaders about how […]
Article · June 8, 2013 by Jenna Buehler
Photo credit: Flickr user Hessa. Grantmakers across the country raised a glass to failure at the 2013 Grantmakers for Effective Organizations conference yesterday. The opening reception, or “Fail Fest,” invited big league grantmakers to help advance philanthropy by sharing hard lessons learned in the field. President of GEO, Kathleen P. Enright, kicked off the evening by championing lessons […]
Article · June 4, 2013 by Jenna Buehler
Managing director of the Foundry Group, Brad Feld, speaks at Rokk Miami. More than 300 city leaders, investors and innovators came together at the Light Box in Wynwood yesterday for Rokk Miami, an event designed to help establish Miami as a leading startup community. The event was launched in partnership with Rokk3r Labs and Knight Foundation, along with […]
Article · April 30, 2013 by Jenna Buehler
The founders of Technically Philly, Christopher Wink (left) and Brian Kirk (center) along with tech reporter Juliana Reyes (right) gear up for the third annual Philly Tech Week. This year Azavea will launch the first-ever NASA International Space Apps hackathon during the kickoff weekend of Philly’s 2013 Tech Week, which celebrates the city’s innovation and technology community. […]
Article · April 19, 2013 by Jenna Buehler
Above: Andy Garcia, Yoani Sanchez and Manny Diaz. Photo credit: Roots of Hope “This is not a Cuban issue, this is a human issue,” said Yoani Sanchez, referring to her passion for freedom of expression. The Cuban dissident blogger, named one of TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people in 2008, took the stage in a […]
Article · April 4, 2013 by Jenna Buehler
A San Jose, Calif. television studio invited all citizens to broadcast their stories as part of a Free Speech Day, an open access effort launched by CreaTV. Tonight, those stories will be broadcast to CreaTV’s 150,000 household viewers. What was surprising about Free Speech Days, Executive Director Suzanne St.John-Crane said, is that young people stole […]
Article · March 4, 2013 by Jenna Buehler
Librarians nationwide are blowing the dust off the old library model and redefining the space out of necessity. Often that means bringing in more people, and more voices into the traditionally quiet space. At a recent libraries conference organized by Knight Foundation, directors from Colorado and Kansas talked about their experiments in engagement, from creating […]
Article · February 15, 2013 by Jenna Buehler
Photo credit: Flickr user dananthony11. Business leaders gathered at the South Florida Economic Summit this week to talk about ways to bridge the education and business sectors. One of the key topics: ideas for boosting South Florida’s start up community, a key focus for Knight Foundation. Several panelists proposed steps to help business leaders become an integral […]
Article · February 5, 2013 by Jenna Buehler
Journalists who don’t make the transition to become digital strategists won’t last in the field, Miranda Mulligan told a group of storytellers, web designers and journalists gathered at the University of Miami’s School of Communications. Mulligan, now the executive director of Northwestern University’s Knight Lab, returned to her alma mater this week to offer advice […]
Article · February 1, 2013 by Jenna Buehler