MTV Choose or Lose Street Team ’08 (a Knight News Challenge—the $5 million yearly contest to fund innovative ideas about local news delivery—project) member Alex Parker wrote this review of his year covering the election for Kansas: I posted my final video for MTV News’ (EMMY AWARD-WINNING!) Choose or Lose Street Team ’08, a Knight […]
Article · November 13, 2008 by Knight Foundation
MIAMI – Nonprofits can get help improving their news releases on a new web site created by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The Knight News Release Workshop offers a step-by-step guide to thinking about, writing and polishing a clear and useful release. The site is at www.newsreleaseworkshop.org. “It’s important that nonprofits explain […]
Article · November 12, 2008 by Knight Foundation
Knight News Challenge (the $5 million yearly contest to fund innovation ideas in local news delivery) winner David Cohn’s project, Spot.Us launched yesterday. An overview of the project: As David posted on his blog: The problem: Revenue. Journalism is a process not a product, but that process takes time and people who do it professionally […]
Article · November 11, 2008 by Knight Foundation
Today, Knight is launching a new community site called Knight Pulse, a place to discuss the future of information. Updated: Here’s a video introducing the site: Despite the current explosion of information, we are less informed. And in a world defined by information exchange, we need new ways to give, share, find, and receive information […]
Article · November 10, 2008 by Knight Foundation
Knight News Challenge (the yearly $5 M contest for innovative local news delivery ideas that has just closed for this year’s cycle) 2007 winner Rising Voices has been nominated for World’s Best Blog in the Deutsche Welle awards. From the Global Voices site: Global Voices’ citizen media outreach project, Rising Voices has been nominated for […]
Article · November 7, 2008 by Knight Foundation
Editor’s note: This is the first blog post where we are specifically highlighting an innovative project from another funding organization; let us know what you think in the comments. This post is from Gary Kebbel, Director of the Knight Journalism program. More and more individuals and non-profit organizations are experimenting with new ways to bring […]
Article · October 31, 2008 by Knight Foundation
Don’t forget to get your application into the Knight News Challenge site by November 1st at midnight, Pacific Time if you’re planning to be part of this year’s contest. (Of course, if you’re like Lisa Williams, a 2007 winner, you can apply at the last minute–who knows, you might win!) For more info on the […]
Article · October 31, 2008 by Knight Foundation
Miro Local TV is a new project from the Participatory Culture Foundation, creators of the popular Internet TV application Miro, to help people find and discuss local online video. The project is funded by a $589,000 grant from Knight. PCF Founder Holmes Wilson talks about the project: From the press release: “Budgets or local TV […]
Article · October 31, 2008 by Knight Foundation
Participatory Culture Foundation Project Will Enable Residents to Find and Discuss Local Video Content, Thanks to Knight Foundation Grant
Article · October 31, 2008 by Knight Foundation
Congratulations to the MIT Center for Future Civic Media team, a 2007 Knight News Challenge winner (remember, only two days left to apply for this year’s contest), on their relaunched Web site. From the site’s about page: The Center for Future Civic Media is working to create technical and social systems for sharing, prioritizing, organizing, […]
Article · October 30, 2008 by Knight Foundation
Director of the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism at the University of Maryland Carol Horner died last week in the District of Columbia. The Washington Post quotes Knight Foundation Journalism Vice President Eric Newton: “Under Carol Horner’s leadership, the Knight Center in Specialized Journalism became the gold standard for training journalists to cover complex topics,” […]
Article · October 27, 2008 by Knight Foundation