Arts
Knight Arts Partnership contest announces finalists. Winners will receive $4 million in fall.
Article · June 6, 2008 by Knight Foundation
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Journalism
EveryBlock is a Knight News Challenge project that filters local news down to the block and neighborhood levels in Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. The EveryBlock team has just released its first “special report,” a new category for information that is too unique for other site categories and deserving of special editorial insertion in […]
Article · June 5, 2008 by Knight Foundation
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otherEditor’s note: Knight Foundation V.P. of Finance Juan Martinez is attending Wharton’s Advanced Management Program at the University of Pennsylvania (where he has made Ben Franklin’s acquaintance) for the next five weeks. Below is his second post with thoughts about assessing and mitigating risk (read his first post here). Yesterday was an exciting and challenging […]
Article · June 5, 2008 by Knight Foundation
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CommunitiesEditor’s note: Meredith Hector is the Program Director for the Knight Foundation community program in Bradenton and Assistant to the V.P. of Communities. Like most Florida communities, Bradenton is struggling to weather the ‘perfect storm’ of property tax increases, rising insurance costs, housing market declines and budget cuts (the county just announced $44 million in […]
Article · June 4, 2008 by Knight Foundation
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The reporters were chosen from a field of 88 applicants and will pursue independent courses of study and take part in seminars
Article · June 4, 2008 by Knight Foundation
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Editor’s note: Knight Foundation V.P. of Finance Juan Martinez is attending Wharton’s Advanced Management Program at the University of Pennsylvania for the next five weeks. He will be sharing some of his experiences learning more about social entrepreneurship and emerging economies in future posts. Though today was my first full day at the Wharton Advanced […]
Article · June 3, 2008 by Knight Foundation
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Group Hires Cultural Consultant Bill Bulick to Guide Efforts
Article · June 3, 2008 by Knight Foundation
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They will be honored with John F. Burns of The New York Times at the International Center for Journalists Awards Dinner on Nov. 12 in Washington, DC
Article · June 3, 2008 by Knight Foundation
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Are you using new technologies on public issues? The application deadline for the Knight-Batten award (given by J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism) is next Wednesday, June 11th. There is a $10,000 grand prize, up to $5,000 in special distinction awards (including a wild card […]
Article · June 2, 2008 by Knight Foundation
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Journalism
Vice president of communications Marc Fest relates the state of journalism to the new Star Trek movie, Under Construction, at the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Knight Hall journalism building at the University of Maryland on May 21, 2008. What do you think the current state of journalism is like?
Article · May 30, 2008 by Knight Foundation
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This week, Trabian Shorters, V.P. of Communities at Knight Foundation, and I attended the NetSquared conference in San Jose, California. (Knight Foundation was a conference sponsor.) In its third year, the NetSquared conference tightly programs two days of sessions on how to use social media tools like Flickr, the popular photo-sharing service, along with the […]
Article · May 30, 2008 by Knight Foundation