Professor Rich Gordon blogged yesterday on IdeaLab (the group blog of Knight News Challenge winners), about six open full scholarships for programmers to study journalism at Medill School at Northwestern University. The entire post is here, and Gordon asks for thoughts about the scholarship pitch and the concept in general. Commenters are weighing in about […]
Article · May 27, 2008 by Knight Foundation
At Knight HQ, we think of the Knight News Challenge winners as part of a special community, so we were delighted to see 2008 winner David Cohn‘s recent video interviews of fellow News Challenge winners Martin Moore and Ryan Sholin from the Editor and Publisher conference in Las Vegas last week. David Cohn’s project, Spot.us, […]
Article · May 23, 2008 by Knight Foundation
Last week in Las Vegas, sixteen 2008 Knight News Challenge winners were announced and a total of $5.5 million was awarded for ideas to innovate digital information delivery. President and CEO of Knight Foundation Alberto Ibarügen noted in a Wall Street Journal interview (linked to from Mashable, Reportr.net, and Poynter’s Romenesko) that he wants to […]
Article · May 22, 2008 by Knight Foundation
This week, the Knight Digital Media Center at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism presents a week of intensive workshop training for journalists in multimedia. Mark Glaser of MediaShift (a blog the Knight Foundation supports), is live-blogging some of the workshops. From MediaShift posts, find out about the Christmas Tree approach to incorporating multimedia, why […]
Article · May 21, 2008 by Knight Foundation
For the Knight News Challenge (our $25 million, five-year contest that rewards ideas and projects that use digital news or information to inform and inspire geographic communities), we’ve made a News Challenge bingo widget for you to grab and put on your Web site. Correctly match the name of the winner with their grant sideways, […]
Article · May 20, 2008 by Knight Foundation
Last Wednesday, the Knight News Challenge winners were announced at the Editor & Publisher/Mediaweek Interactive conference in Las Vegas. Knight Foundation president and CEO Alberto Ibarügen chatted with one of the winners, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, after the announcement; inventor of the World Wide Web, Berners-Lee is working with Martin Moore on a transparent journalism project. […]
Article · May 19, 2008 by Knight Foundation
Image by Knight Workforce Performance and Development Manager Tom Pitmon. Knight Foundation employees are in the final days of the Biloxi build, and the Habitat for Humanity Web site quotes a few of us in yesterday’s daily diaries section. Biloxi ‘ Roofing isn’t the only hot job. Crews of twos and threes worked at each […]
Article · May 16, 2008 by Knight Foundation
LAS VEGAS — CNN.com today accepted the Knight News Innovation EPpy for its interactive, international, engaging and effective web site. The award, announced as part of the EPpy Awards ceremony at the Interactive Media Conference & Tradeshow, is sponsored by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. CNN received the award for finding new […]
Article · May 15, 2008 by Knight Foundation
The building continues in Biloxi at the Habitat for Humanity‘s 25th Annual Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Work Project, and Knight Foundation colleagues are sending back pictures and video of the first few days. For most of the houses, Journalism Associate Jessica Goldfin writes, the homeowner is working as part of the build crew, “which is […]
Article · May 14, 2008 by Knight Foundation
Award recipients include World Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Article · May 14, 2008 by Knight Foundation
This week, thirty Knight Foundation employees are working alongside thousands of other volunteers constructing and rehabilitating houses in Biloxi, Mississippi. Knight Foundation is directly sponsoring eight houses, and we’ll be posting video and updates from those eight houses all this week. One Knight Foundation program director, Anne Corriston, is blogging her experience here; in the […]
Article · May 12, 2008 by Knight Foundation