Last month, Knight Pulse, the community site on the future of news for Knight Foundation, held an event in Los Angeles with GOOD Magazine, tapping six community leaders. More in coming weeks on these projects in design, urban homesteading, neighborhood installations, community service, and storytelling on Pulse and on the GOOD site.
Article · April 23, 2009 by Knight Foundation
MIAMI — Dennis Scholl, Miami program director for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, will take on an additional role as vice president / arts to develop a nationwide cultural arts program for Knight. Scholl will work with local leaders to identify opportunities for investing in innovative ideas and programs. His efforts will […]
Article · April 22, 2009 by Knight Foundation
Jose Zamora is a Journalism Program Associate at Knight Foundation ‘In the future there will be a new breed of journalists who can do all this (multimedia journalism) and it’s second nature to them,’ said Travis Fox last Friday at this year’s International Symposium on Online Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. Fox […]
Article · April 22, 2009 by Knight Foundation
The Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy (knightcomm.org) wants to hear about your information needs starting today through Friday, May 8th on the PBS Engage site (the social media hub for PBS efforts): pbs.org/engage/publicinput On the site, there are five questions you can leave a comment on (or leave a […]
Article · April 21, 2009 by Knight Foundation
PBS Engage Joins Call for Comments on Upcoming Study; Google’s Marissa Mayer, Commission Co-Chair, to Answer Public’s Questions
Article · April 21, 2009 by Knight Foundation
This post originally appeared on the Knight Pulse community site: Gregory Galant (@gregory) and Adam Varga (@varga) of Sawhorse Media tell us about their new site, MuckRack.com, that aggregates Twitter (the popular microblogging site) streams from journalists. Find out why they built the site, how they are limiting the feeds and given context, a possible […]
Article · April 20, 2009 by Knight Foundation
Jose Zamora is a Journalism Program Associate at Knight Foundation Last week Development Seed released new open-source code in preparation for part of their Knight funded mapping project. This piece of software allows anyone to switch between mapping providers without writing any code. Development Seed received a $195,000 grant to add a mapping tool to […]
Article · April 14, 2009 by Knight Foundation
From more than 1,500 ideas, 45 finalists will move on to the next round of the 2009 Knight Arts Challenge! The Knight Arts Challenge is an experimental contest that aspires to bring together South Florida’s diverse community through the arts. Great arts ideas poured in from the community during the month of February, and the […]
Article · April 10, 2009 by Knight Foundation
ARTES PLÁSTICAS ARTES ESCÉNICAS 3D Miami/Frederic Snitzer Resaltar más la posición del Sur de la Florida como centro cultural, al exhibir las obras de 90 artistas en una exhibición de esculturas contemporáneas en todo el condado de Miami-Dade. Available Space (Espacio disponible) Enriquecer la vida comunitaria creando exposiciones públicas interactivas temporales de arte, frente a […]
Article · April 10, 2009 by Knight Foundation
MIAMI – The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation today announced the finalists of an experimental contest that aspires to bring together South Florida’s diverse community through the arts. The 45 finalists of the Knight Arts Challenge – which include galleries, an opera company and an independent music store – rose above a field […]
Article · April 10, 2009 by Knight Foundation
Video: Sarah Cohen of Duke University speaks at OMB Watch’s January 28, 2010, government openness webcast. DURHAM, N.C. — Sarah Cohen, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and expert on computer-assisted investigative journalism, has been named to the Knight Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy at Duke University. Cohen, database editor at The Washington […]
Article · April 9, 2009 by Knight Foundation