Jose Zamora is a Journalism Program Associate at Knight Foundation Investigative journalism helps democratic societies work transparently. When investigations work, they unveil corruption and other obstacles that may hinder the development of a community. But investigative journalism is expensive, and as organizations face difficulties in their business models, it’s becoming more difficult to fund. Investigative […]
Article · October 6, 2008 by Knight Foundation
One of the Knight News Challenge projects (the $5 million yearly contest to fund innovative digital news delivery ideas), ReportingOn, has launched in public beta. ReportingOn’s Ryan Sholin describes the service: ReportingOn.com will be a simple way for journalists to update their peers on the stories they’re working on right now. Tag your 140-character-or-less updates […]
Article · October 6, 2008 by Knight Foundation
On Tuesday night, Netsquared DC chairs Matt Stempeck (pictured below, far right) and Gabriela Schneider rallied over forty people to a News Challenge (the $5 million yearly contest on innovative digital news delivery ideas) meetup at Google’s D.C. headquarters. Local developers and interested community organizers asked thoughtful questions about the News Challenge contest and the […]
Article · October 2, 2008 by Knight Foundation
National Fund for Workforce Solutions Selects Wichita Region for Funding
Article · October 1, 2008 by Knight Foundation
Knight Foundation grant will support a new curriculum expected to be a state-wide model
Article · September 30, 2008 by Knight Foundation
Yesterday, the Knight Foundation Journalism Advisory Committee (JAC) and guests met at the Newseum. Video from the meeting is below; the full Flickr (a photo-sharing service) set of images and video is here. Follow the conversational threads about broccoli, business models, and content markets with JAC members Marty Baron, Dianne Lynch, Rosental Alves, Michael Maness, […]
Article · September 30, 2008 by Knight Foundation
Last night was the fourth of the Knight News Challenge North American meetups, this one in Chicago, hosted by Columbia College’s Barbara Iverson. (If you didn’t know, the Knight News Challenge is in the third year of a program that gives away $5MM a year to digital innovations.) With about 30 curious innovators attending last […]
Article · September 27, 2008 by Knight Foundation
The 2008 Communications Network Conference, a group of philanthropy professionals who work in communications, began last night in Chicago. Chair of the Network, Larry Meyer (pictured below at left) and Senior Communication Officer and Secretary at Knight Foundation, introduced Ira Glass, who explained how his wildly successful NPR (and Showtime) show This American Life uses […]
Article · September 25, 2008 by Knight Foundation
Editor’s note: Senior Communications Officer and Secretary Larry Meyer details how Nancy Hicks Maynard was related to Knight Foundation’s Journalism program and the Maynard Institute. Nancy Hicks Maynard ‘ a significant pioneer in journalism ‘ was a long-time member of Knight Foundation’s Journalism Advisory Committee. Along with John Dotson Jr. ‘ quoted in the San […]
Article · September 23, 2008 by Knight Foundation
So, we’re trying to go out in the community, somewhat BarCamp style, and do more hands-on sessions with people interested in applying to the Knight News Challenge this year. We have a set of sessions planned around the country, and we’re running them al in a similar way–Talking about the program, explaining the guidelines and […]
Article · September 23, 2008 by Knight Foundation