Published October 7, 2010 by Knight Foundation
Washington, D.C. – Oct. 7, 2010 – The Center for Public Integrity, a 20-year leader in nonprofit investigative journalism, will speed its transformation into a 21st century news organization with a new $1.7 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The grant will enable the center’s non-partisan, award-winning watchdog journalism to […]
Published October 6, 2010 by Knight Foundation
PHILADELPHIA – Mayor Michael A. Nutter, Chief Cultural Officer Gary Steuer and 200 arts professionals, advocates and artists celebrated the launch of the Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia Tuesday night at a special reception at TRUST in Old City. The challenge, a project of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to fund the best […]
Published October 5, 2010 by Knight Foundation
New York – The World Wide Workshop will expand its efforts to teach civics and news literacy through a game-based curriculum, with a new $200,000 grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The support will triple the number of students participating in the research-driven curriculum in West Virginia – bringing the total […]
Published October 4, 2010 by Knight Foundation
Rise to the Occasion is the subject of a Knight Foundation leadership breakfast with the Office of Multicultural Development at the University of Akron. Akron, Ohio — The University of Akron will work to increase the recruitment, retention and graduation rates of black male students, with a $425,000 grant from the John S. and James […]
Published September 30, 2010 by Knight Foundation
Washington, D.C. – Community news sites should engage, not just inform, their users; ramp up quickly with social media tools; tease out contributors rather than train a corps of citizen journalists in advance; and invest a lot of sweat equity, according to a new J-Lab report culling lessons learned from five years of funding community […]
Published September 30, 2010 by Knight Foundation
Manatee and Sarasota County will become the nation’s newest National Fund for Workforce Solutions site, thanks to work by CareerEdge Funders Collaborative of Manatee & Sarasota (CEFC), formerly known as the Manatee Sarasota Workforce Funders Collaborative. CareerEdge is the only Nationally Designated Funder for Workforce Solutions in Florida. The National Fund for Workforce Solutions is […]
Published September 29, 2010 by Knight Foundation
Washington, D.C. – To mark the one-year anniversary of the Knight Commission’s groundbreaking report, Informing Communities: Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age, the Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation today released the first in a series of White Papers focused on the Commission’s 15 recommendations for […]
Published September 27, 2010 by Knight Foundation
Related Links: News21/CPI Transportation Investigation Carnegie Corporation of New York John S. and James L. Knight Foundation MSNBC.com Washingtonpost.com News 21 Center for Public Integrity Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication A major investigation into transportation safety in America, conducted by journalism students from 11 universities participating in the Carnegie-Knight Journalism Initiative in […]