Knight Foundation Grant to ASNE Funds Year Two of Successful Nationwide Initiative
Article · October 11, 2005 by Knight Foundation
Knight Foundation Grant to ASNE Funds Year Two of Successful Nationwide Initiative
Article · October 11, 2005 by Knight Foundation
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 […]
Article · September 29, 2005 by Knight Foundation
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 […]
Article · September 29, 2005 by Knight Foundation
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 […]
Article · September 28, 2005 by Knight Foundation
BILOXI, Miss. — A $1 million lead grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation will help underwrite the strategic planning that will guide the long-term effort to rebuild the Mississippi Gulf Coast counties in the wake of Hurricane Katrina’s devastation. “Biloxi and Gulfport are Knight Foundation communities. We think of them as […]
Article · September 19, 2005 by Knight Foundation
Veterans of sports, industry, and academe join commission
Article · September 13, 2005 by Knight Foundation
MIAMI, Fla. — Emergency grants from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation totaling $1 million will help the residents of Biloxi and Harrison County, Miss., in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The grants – $500,000 to the American Red Cross and $500,000 to the Salvation Army – were announced today by Alberto […]
Article · August 31, 2005 by Knight Foundation
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 […]
Article · August 25, 2005 by Knight Foundation
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 […]
Article · August 25, 2005 by Knight Foundation
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, […]
Article · August 24, 2005 by Knight Foundation
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 […]
Article · August 17, 2005 by Knight Foundation