Ashoka has announced its first set of News Entrepreneurs, in an experiment funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The group of 13 innovators includes Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia; Sandy Close, founder of New American Media, which has created a network of ethnic news sites; and Sasa Vucinic, managing director of […]
Article · March 13, 2009 by Knight Foundation
Congratulations to Justin Ellis, who won the SxSWi badge for the popular media conference in Austin this week. Knight Foundation’s community site, Knight Pulse, gave the badge away in an effort to increase the number of bookmarks with the tag ‘futureofnews’, a tag Pulse will be promoting in coming months. The giveaway was announced through […]
Article · March 12, 2009 by Knight Foundation
From Rising Voices Director David Sasaki’s post on Idea Lab, the group blog for all Knight News Challenge (the $5 million yearly contest about innovative news delivery ideas) winners: In January we received over 270 proposals from activists, bloggers, and NGO’s all wanting to use citizen media tools to bring new communities – long ignored […]
Article · March 10, 2009 by Knight Foundation
From the Knight Foundation community site Knight Pulse: At last week’s DrupalCon in Washington, D.C., Pulse talked with Nick Aster about how the new Mother Jones site encourages reader action and support. Find out what “reader-supported journalism” means to Mother Jones, and what they hope to do in future iterations of the site. How do […]
Article · March 9, 2009 by Knight Foundation
PBS Engage (a project funded by Knight) gives an update on their hashtag (#PBS) and what they’ll be up to in Austin this week at the SxSW Interactive Festival in the video below, taken on Friday at the PBS Interactive Open House. PBS Engage is hosting events, including music from David Kitchen and Alejandro Escovedo, […]
Article · March 7, 2009 by Knight Foundation
Just announced from the DrupalCon stage: The Knight Drupal (an open source content management system) Initiative’s winners (background on this project), announced at the DrupalCon DC Conference, will receive a total of $485,380 to: * Create concise, up-to-date instructions for Drupal software packages so that tech novices can use the tools; (Winner: Programmer Addison Berry/ […]
Article · March 4, 2009 by Knight Foundation
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Six ideas that will make it easier for anyone to join the digital conversation will be realized with support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The projects will use the free and popular software Drupal, which allows users to efficiently publish content online. “These powerful tools will help people […]
Article · March 4, 2009 by Knight Foundation
Video from the Wednesday’s panel on “How News Companies Can Change” at WeMedia with Jennifer Carroll, Gannett; Neil Budde, Daily Me; Jan Schaffer, J-Lab; Solana Larsen, Global Voices: And highlights from Knight President Alberto Ibargüen’s Thursday’s WeMedia conversation with Allison Fine: Thoughts on any of the points the speakers raise?
Article · February 28, 2009 by Knight Foundation
Bill Mitchell posted on Poynter this morning (full post): As more than 200 staffers of the Rocky Mountain News got the painful news that their paper would close Friday, a similarly sized group at the We Media conference was listening to Knight Foundation CEO Alberto Ibargüen describe some of what’s emerging to replace the fading […]
Article · February 27, 2009 by Knight Foundation
Online applications for the Knight Arts Challenge, a community-wide contest to fund the best art ideas in South Florida, are due March 2nd (apply here.) Last year, Knight Foundation awarded $8 million to 31 groups ‘ such as sculptors, musicians, prominent institutions and recently formed galleries. There are three rules (more explanation in the FAQ): […]
Article · February 27, 2009 by Knight Foundation
Philadelphia — Hundreds of workers will prepare for skilled positions in the city’s growing green economy, with two new efforts announced today. The John S. and James L. Knight Green Jobs Training Center will move low-skilled workers into higher-paying careers with advancement opportunities while filling positions created by the expanding sector. The training center, scheduled […]
Article · February 27, 2009 by Knight Foundation