MIAMI – Two new tenured teaching posts in the Knight Chair in Journalism program, one awarded to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the other to the University of California-Berkeley, head the list of new journalism grants by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. In all, Knight foundation’s trustees approved 25 journalism grants […]
Article · September 26, 2000 by Knight Foundation
MIAMI – Two new tenured teaching posts in the Knight Chair in Journalism program, one awarded to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the other to the University of California-Berkeley, head the list of new journalism grants by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. In all, Knight foundation’s trustees approved 25 journalism grants […]
Article · September 26, 2000 by Knight Foundation
AKRON – At a 50th anniversary dinner celebrating historic ties to the Akron community, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation announced 17 grants totaling more than $10 million to an array of local nonprofit organizations Monday night (June 12). A crowd of more than 250 at the John S. Knight Center watched as […]
Article · June 13, 2000 by Knight Foundation
A decade after publishing a seminal series of reports that led to the restructuring of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics will reassemble to take stock of the state of college athletics. The original members of the commission have agreed to reconvene beginning later this summer, conduct hearings and […]
Article · June 1, 2000 by Knight Foundation
A decade after publishing a seminal series of reports that led to the restructuring of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics will reassemble to take stock of the state of college athletics. The original members of the commission have agreed to reconvene beginning later this summer, conduct hearings and […]
Article · June 1, 2000 by Knight Foundation
MIAMI — Columbia Journalism Review, one of the nation’s most respected journals of news media self-scrutiny, has received $1 million in support for the next four years from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The $1 million challenge grant to Columbia University, publisher of CJR, is one of 13 journalism grants awarded by […]
Article · March 23, 2000 by Knight Foundation
MIAMI — Columbia Journalism Review, one of the nation’s most respected journals of news media self-scrutiny, has received $1 million in support for the next four years from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The $1 million challenge grant to Columbia University, publisher of CJR, is one of 13 journalism grants awarded by […]
Article · March 23, 2000 by Knight Foundation
MIAMI – Reach Out and Read, a national early childhood literacy initiative, will expand its collaborative programs in the Charlotte area, supported by a $647,000 grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The grant program, which also includes community literacy efforts in Philadelphia and Palm Beach County, Fla., will provide training for […]
Article · March 22, 2000 by Knight Foundation
MIAMI – Reach Out and Read, a national early childhood literacy initiative, will expand its collaborative programs in the Charlotte area, supported by a $647,000 grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The grant program, which also includes community literacy efforts in Philadelphia and Palm Beach County, Fla., will provide training for […]
Article · March 22, 2000 by Knight Foundation
Survey of 17,000 U.S. Adults Reveals Common Threads and Different Perspectives in Big Cities and Small Towns
Article · March 20, 2000 by Knight Foundation