STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Penn State, a school with an innovative Center for Sports Journalism and one of the nation’s most respected intercollegiate athletics programs, will enhance its leadership role by becoming the home to the new Knight Chair in Sports Journalism and Society.  Alberto Ibargüen, president and CEO of the John S. and James […]

DETROIT — An investment of $2.7 million in seven Detroit area education and community service organizations underscores the commitment of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to remain actively involved in Detroit and southeast Michigan despite recent changes in newspaper ownership.   The board of trustees of the independent Knight Foundation recently approved […]

AKRON, Ohio — Regional economic development efforts in Northeast Ohio will get a boost in the form of $3.1 million in new grant commitments from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. An additional $1.1 million in new Knight grants will support youth programs, particularly focused on disadvantaged preteen and teen-age students at Simon […]

Veterans of sports, industry, and academe join commission

DURHAM, N.C. — Supported by a $100,000 grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Western Kentucky University and the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) have joined together to create an online educational program based on NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism annual contest that will help the university’s photojournalism and visual communication students learn […]

NEW YORK — Channel One, the preeminent news and public affairs content provider reaching almost eight million students in nearly 12,000 middle schools and high schools, is partnering with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, one of the nation’s largest private foundations and a promoter of journalism excellence, to increase students’ awareness of […]

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — J-Learning.org, a how-to digital handbook for designing, launching and sustaining an online community news site was launched today by J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism at the University of Maryland. The Web site offers 20 chapters and more than 60 subsections of basic skills training on how to plan a site, […]

Miami—Susan Patterson, Knight’s community liaison program officer for the Carolinas, has been named director of the foundation’s Community Partners Program. Patterson, who has extensive experience working in Knight communities both as a grant maker and as a newspaper editor and publisher, had served as the program’s interim director since April of this year. Patterson will […]

New York, N.Y.—Vartan Gregorian, president of Carnegie Corporation of New York announced today that five additional journalism schools at major research universities have been asked to submit proposals for curriculum enrichment and to join an initiative begun this year to revitalize journalism education.  The five schools, which will present proposals for the approval of the […]