If you’re debating applying for the Knight News Challenge this year, but haven’t done anything yet AND you live in the Chicago area, you might want to come to the meet up on Thursday of this week. We’ll have two KNC team members and a local winner there to share info about the program, the […]
Article · September 23, 2008 by Knight Foundation
Editor’s note: Scott Piepho is an Akron blogger; below, he walks us through the new Akron headquarters of the Knight Center of Digital Excellence. The video was shot by Knight V.P. of Communications Marc Fest and edited by webmaster Robertson Adams. High tech gear and a fruit salad of furniture colors meet turn-of-last-century architecture as […]
Article · September 22, 2008 by Knight Foundation
Editor’s note: Susan Patterson is the Knight Program Director for Charlotte, North Carolina. Below, she details Knight winners at the inaugural Charlotte Chamber Innovation Awards. The Charlotte Chamber launched its first ever Innovation Awards Tuesday night, and Knight grantees were winners. The McColl Center for Visual Arts received the Innovative New Product or Service Award […]
Article · September 18, 2008 by Knight Foundation
Tuesday, Macon.com posted this story about future planning for Macon roads, mentioning Knight Program Director for Macon, Beverly Blake, and an e-mail she wrote to community leaders. From the Macon.com article: With funding from the Knight Foundation, a disinterested third party, Georgia Tech’s College of Architecture IMAGINE Lab (www.coa.gatech.edu/imagine) is being employed to look at […]
Article · September 18, 2008 by Knight Foundation
Today, celebrate Constitution Day by learning more about the First Amendment. Take the quiz, find ways to protect student journalists, and nominate a school for the First Amendment Press Freedom Award (deadline December 1st). How else might we celebrate Constitution Day?
Article · September 17, 2008 by Knight Foundation
A “Reporter Analysis” Evaluation Feature
Article · September 15, 2008 by Knight Foundation
Tonight at the Newseum, Sir Tim Berners-Lee announced the creation of the World Wide Web Foundation. The new foundation’s mission as articulated by Berners-Lee: -to advance One Web that is free and open,-to expand the Web’s capability and robustness,-to extend the Web’s benefits to all people on the planet. The Knight Foundation is funding a […]
Article · September 15, 2008 by Knight Foundation
Sir Tim Berners-Lee announces World Wide Web Foundation; John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Supports Mission With $5 Million Seed Grant
Article · September 14, 2008 by Knight Foundation
On Wednesday, J-Lab (the Institute for Interactive Journalism) announced the winner of this year’s Knight-Batten Innovation Award: Wired.com‘s Wikiscanner coverage “which helped readers investigate and expose ego-editing and corporate whitewashing of Wikipedia entries.” PolitiFact.com, with its “Truth-o-Meter” for 2008 presidential campaign statements, and Ushahidi: Crowdsourcing Crisis Information, a site to report incidents of political violence […]
Article · September 12, 2008 by Knight Foundation
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Wired.com’s WikiScanner coverage, which helped readers investigate and expose ego-editing and corporate whitewashing of Wikipedia entries, is this years $10,000 Grand Prize winner in the Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism. Wired.com invited readers to use new technology to get all IP addresses assigned to a particular company, organization or government department, […]
Article · September 10, 2008 by Knight Foundation
Until 5 PST today, you can watch the live webcast of the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy from Google HQ in Mountain View, CA. Videos from yesterday’s Knight Commission Community Forum are on Flickr here. If you’re in the NYC area this evening, there is an informational event tonight […]
Article · September 9, 2008 by Knight Foundation