A few years ago, Knight supported Detroit with a technology center at their downtown YMCA and youth programming. The YMCA centers developed the YArts program and have launched a refreshed Web site for the Detroit creative community: thedetroiter.com The site is featuring artist Tristan Eaton, who contributes to the Detroit art scene and whose work […]
Article · January 20, 2009 by Knight Foundation
Knight Foundation gives you a window onto the inauguration with multi-media journalist Farai Chideya and her team of student bloggers from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Journalism. With Knight’s support, they are posting coverage of the inauguration on PopandPolitics.com. They allow free distribution of the inaugural content under a Creative Commons license, […]
Article · January 20, 2009 by Knight Foundation
January 15, 2009 (abridged version) — While Knight Foundation is a very long-time and committed supporter of University of Miami programs – most recently the Knight Center for International Media and two endowed chairs in the School of Communications – the subject of business is not an area of obvious interest to a foundation that […]
Article · January 15, 2009 by Knight Foundation
January 15, 2009 (abridged version) — While Knight Foundation is a very longtime and committed supporter of University of Miami programs – most recently the Knight Center for International Media and two endowed chairs in the School of Communications – the subject of business is not an area of obvious interest to a foundation that […]
Article · January 15, 2009 by Knight Foundation
TALLAHASSEE, FLA.. — Leadership Tallahassee announced today that it will produce and market a study evaluating the retention of college graduates in the Tallahassee area, thanks to the support of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. There is no question that Tallahassee experiences a brain drain every year with its college graduates. However, […]
Article · January 15, 2009 by Knight Foundation
Today is the deadline to apply to be a Jennings Fellow; a program (partially funded by Knight) meant for journalists to explore constitutional issues in their work. Fellows attend a few days of workshops with leading constitutional scholars and lawyers (the 2009 faculty includes Kenneth Starr, Dean, Pepperdine University School of Law and John Yoo, […]
Article · January 15, 2009 by Knight Foundation
Last week, the University of Miami School of Communication held two sessions of Beyond Bootcamp multimedia workshops that ran for three days with training on the specific tracks of audio narratives, video narratives, online infographics, multimedia production, multimedia programming, and teaching multimedia. UM Knight Chair in Visual Journalism Rich Beckman facilitated Friday’s discussion between the […]
Article · January 14, 2009 by Knight Foundation
Today, Knight announced the twenty-one winning projects for the first year of the Community Information Challenge, a five-year, $24 million initiative for help community foundation find creative ways to better inform their communities. The full list of winners is in the press release, and you can learn what a community foundation is as well as […]
Article · January 14, 2009 by Knight Foundation
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Grants to Fill Information Voids
Article · January 14, 2009 by Knight Foundation
Congratulations to the Idea Lab on their site relaunch with a fresh look by Mule Design. Knight News Challenge winners (a yearly ~$5 million contest to fund innovative ideas about news delivery) blog on the Idea Lab site about progress on their projects and relevant ideas in community news mechanisms; the site is edited by […]
Article · January 12, 2009 by Knight Foundation
Map: Stories informed by Seattle public radio station KUOW-FM’s public insight network. (St. Paul, Minn.)—American Public Media, the country’s second-largest producer of national programs for public radio, announced today it has received a $2.95 million, three-year grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to support American Public Media’s Public Insight Journalism. American […]
Article · January 12, 2009 by Knight Foundation