Miami, Fla. The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has extended its grant to the YWCA of Northwest Indiana and added a grant to the Broadway Area Community Development Corporation with the goal of spurring Garys economic and community revitalization. This Indiana community is rebounding and it needs new industries and young working […]
Article · November 30, 2007 by Knight Foundation
Gates to Sponsor Health Journalism Fellows in Africa
Article · November 14, 2007 by Knight Foundation
Grants Makes Possible the Largest Expansion of Media Clubs in Public Schools
Article · November 10, 2007 by Knight Foundation
States nonprofit sector smaller than national average but growing
Article · November 7, 2007 by Knight Foundation
Knight Foundation invests $5.7 million in four education initiatives
Article · November 7, 2007 by Knight Foundation
Dan Gillmor, an internationally recognized author and leader in new media and citizen-based journalism, will be the founding director of the new Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Arizona State University announced today. Gillmor, director of the Center for Citizen Media, will start Jan. 1 […]
Article · November 6, 2007 by Knight Foundation
Trabian Shorters, a social entrepreneur who has led in the start-up of half a dozen capacity-building networks, will become Vice President/Communities Program at the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, pending approval by the foundation’s trustees. As vice president of the foundation’s communities program, Shorters will oversee a staff of 18 and direct grant […]
Article · November 1, 2007 by Knight Foundation
Miami, Fla. — The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation announced today that Mike Maidenberg, Vice President/Communities Program, has decided to retire at the end of 2007. He will consult with Knight Foundation during 2008 on an important new initiative he helped launch: looking at the information needs of communities in a democracy. As […]
Article · October 31, 2007 by Knight Foundation
Top New Media Figures Have a Place to Experiment
Article · October 18, 2007 by Knight Foundation
Any society where criminals can murder a journalist with impunity is a society in danger of tipping into chaos
Article · October 14, 2007 by Knight Foundation
Any society where criminals can murder a journalist with impunity is a society in danger of tipping into chaos. Democracy requires order and information. If you can stop the source of reliable information, it is only a short step to the elimination of the communal respect for law that free and open societies require for […]
Article · October 14, 2007 by Knight Foundation