COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Global Voices Online, a web site about how news affects daily life and conversations in more than 130 countries, is this year’s $10,000 Grand Prize winner in the Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism. The site uses skilled multilingual editors to find and publish thoughtful or entertaining bloggers who discuss what […]

Tom Warhover Named Executive Editor for Innovation

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MIAMI – Katherine Torres Loflin has been named the new program director for Palm Beach and Bradenton, Fla. Loflin has served as Knight Foundation’s community foundations and technical assistance program officer. As program director for Palm Beach and Bradenton, Loflin will work with local leaders and a community advisory committee to identify funding opportunities and […]

Offering the best measure yet of U.S. journalism, a new book, The American Journalist in the 21st Century, examines in detail exactly who is writing, editing and producing the news these days – and what motivates them. Indiana University journalism professors David Weaver, Randal Beam, Bonnie Brownlee, Paul Voakes and G. Cleveland Wilhoit based the […]

COLLEGE PARK, Md. – Seven new ways to connect people with news – from showing every Congressional vote, to warning where hurricanes will strike, to blogging the world – are the winners of this year’s Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism. “The hallmark of this year’s entries was the use of basic technology to add […]

KENT, Ohio — Building on its nationally recognized scholastic journalism program, Kent State will in 2007 become home to a new Knight Chair in Scholastic Journalism. A total of $2 million in past and current funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is endowing the new tenured faculty position. Kent State will […]

Television stations across California will air proof this Friday that graduate student journalists can report and produce quality, top-flight journalism on the controversial issues of our time. The July 21 segment — a piece on immigration created this summer by University of Southern California graduate students – is but the first of a collection of […]

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