MIAMI — The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation will continue to work as a local funder in Tallahassee and Detroit, despite a change in ownership of the newspapers in those communities. Knight Foundation remains committed to serving all of the 26 communities where its founders owned newspapers at the time of the death […]

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — A national panel of judges has selected five finalists to win the 2005 Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism, honoring them for setting new standards for interactive journalism, advancing creativity in digital storytelling and recalibrating the role that news organizations play in their communities. The judges chose a $10,000 winner, a […]

ST. PAUL, Minn. — For families trying to achieve home ownership, the barriers to owning a home can be more than just money.  Cultural and language differences or the lack of trusted real estate and financial advisors can be just as daunting.  An innovative program launched today that will evolve over the next five years […]

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Somerset, Pa. — The international design competition for the Flight 93 National Memorial opened its doors to the public today. The public has the opportunity to view and comment on the five final designs on display at The Shops at Georgian Place in Somerset, Pa., as well as online at www.flight93memorialproject.org.  The design competition’s public […]

Only three of the teams in the upcoming NCAA Super Regionals would be eligible Under Knight Commission’s recommended standard

Schools of Journalism at Columbia, Northwestern, Berkeley and USC, and the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard are part of The Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education. The initiative respond

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics met today with NCAA President Myles Brand and conference commissioners and addressed a broad range of challenges facing college sports.  Commissioners discussed and applauded the work of the newly formed NCAA Presidential Task Force on the Future of Intercollegiate Athletics, citing the alignment of its […]