Youth digital culture scholar danah boyd is one of the fifteen members of the new Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy. Today, she is at the Newseum for the Commission’s first meeting; below, she talks about her work and the information lifestyle she hopes to voice for the group: Video […]
Article · June 24, 2008 by Knight Foundation
Today, the fifteen members of the Knight Commission on Information Needs of a Community in a Democracy meet for the first time at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. to discuss democracy, economics, human behavior, and technology. A joint project of Knight Foundation and the Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program, the meeting will be webcast […]
Article · June 24, 2008 by Knight Foundation
Today, Knight Foundation announced at $24 million initiative for community foundations to use media and technology to better inform their communities. To apply for the grant-making challenge, submit a project idea in no more than 200 words between June 30th and September 15th on the initiative site, InformationNeeds.org (you can sign up to be reminded […]
Article · June 23, 2008 by Knight Foundation
SAN JOSE, Calif. – June 24, 2008 – A $1.85 million grant by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation will help Opportunity Fund launch Saving for Citizenship—a new program that will help 500 low-income legal immigrants in Silicon Valley save money to apply for naturalization and become US citizens. Saving for Citizenship is […]
Article · June 23, 2008 by Knight Foundation
$24 Million, Five-Year Project Spurs Innovation through Challenge Grants
Article · June 23, 2008 by Knight Foundation
Facts, Questions & Answers What is the Knight Community Information Challenge? Knight Foundation has launched a five-year, $24 million initiative aimed at encouraging community foundations to embrace information as a core community need. It challenges community foundations to grasp the depth and pace of the change the media world is undergoing, and to take account […]
Article · June 23, 2008 by Knight Foundation
One of the really exciting Knight Foundation projects is the News Challenge, a yearly contest to fund ideas about the future of local news delivery. On May 14th, we announced the 2008 winners; for the 2009 round, we’re seeking a social media marketing ninja to increase visibility, manage deliverables with media partners, track metrics and […]
Article · June 20, 2008 by Knight Foundation
Below, links to projects and news around some of the Knight News Challenge winners, their local news delivery projects, and other journalism posts from this week: News Challenge winner Dan Pacheco asks for feedback on the Printcasting (a project to “make it possible for anyone to create a local print newspaper, magazine or newsletter with […]
Article · June 20, 2008 by Knight Foundation
Knight Foundation is working with the Drupal community to fund new projects in Drupal, an open source framework and content management system. Called the Knight Drupal Initiative, new proposals are reviewed by the Drupal community and then recommended to Knight for possible funding. The initiative’s goals: * To enable more people to enter the digital […]
Article · June 18, 2008 by Knight Foundation
On the heels of the recent stir over the Associated Press filing DMCA notices on the community site Drudge Retort, a timely article in the Washington Post quotes Knight News Challenge winner Geoff Dougherty of Chi-TownDailyNews.org on his vision for the site and professional training models for online journalists. The article details how bloggers can […]
Article · June 17, 2008 by Knight Foundation
As acronyms go, ALF is pretty good, and it denotes (an alien life form that landed on an NBC sitcom a few decades ago and) the American Leadership Forum, a national organization with local chapters, including an active one in Silicon Valley. On Wednesday, Knight Foundation announced a partnership with the Silicon Valley ALF chapter […]
Article · June 13, 2008 by Knight Foundation