Knight-funded public media accelerator announces director

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Knight-funded public media accelerator announces director

Published March 8, 2012 by Knight Foundation

Cambridge, MA (March 7, 2012) – Corey Ford, director of Innovation Endeavors’ Runway program, the start-up incubator at Eric Schmidt’s early stage venture capital firm, and former producer for the Emmy Award-winning PBS series FRONTLINE, has been tapped as the director of the new Public Media Accelerator, a $2.5 million incubator launched by Public Radio […]

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New TV and online video content to rate digital tools

Published March 7, 2012 by Knight Foundation

Maryland Public Television and Ashburn Media Company to launch “Daily Download” starting February 2012, with support from Knight Foundation

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iWitness Aims to Aggregate News By Time and Place

Published March 6, 2012 by Knight Foundation

The following, written by 2011 News Challenge Winner iWitness, is crossposted from PBS Media Shift. By Jesse James Garrett: Let's face it: The great promise of citizen media has not really been fulfilled. News organizations have struggled to find ways to supplement their coverage of news events with contributions from citizens -- and finding citizen media related to a news event is currently difficult at best. Keyword searches and hashtags provide partial solutions, but still do not differentiate between first-person accounts and other kinds of content. And although more and more services allow their content to be geotagged, few tools take advantage of this data in meaningful ways. That's where we come in. My company, Adaptive Path, is a user experience design firm based in San Francisco, and with funding from the Knight News Challenge, we're building a tool that we call iWitness.

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White paper: Nonprofit/commercial media partnerships fill news gap

Published March 6, 2012 by Knight Foundation

New research reveals media hybrids can enhance investigative reporting

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New effort to help more Detroiters learn and lead as social innovators

Published March 6, 2012 by Knight Foundation

Issue Media Group spearheading Knight Foundation-supported effort to advance Detroit “Urban Innovation Exchange”

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Medill at Northwestern launches investigative project focused on local government accountability, with Knight Foundation funding

Published February 29, 2012 by Knight Foundation

Evanston, Illinois (Feb. 29, 2012) – Medill at Northwestern University has launched an investigative project that focuses on government accountability in suburban counties around Chicago. The Medill News21 Watchdog Project brings undergraduate and graduate fellows and interns together to work with accomplished investigative faculty to use public records to identify systemic issues and hold public […]

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Knight Foundation and its partners in Technology for Engagement attend TED2012

Published February 28, 2012 by Knight Foundation

By Brett Hudson My colleagues and I who are part of Knight’s Technology for Engagement Initiative are at the TED conference this week in Long Beach, Calif. TED convenes some of the greatest minds around the globe to explore ways to foster a more informed, collaborative and innovative society. These goals are at the core of Knight’s Tech for Engagement Initiative, which funds digital technologies that inspire civic dialogue and collective community action. Leaders of several of our funded projects are participating in TED. On Monday, Eric Gordon, who leads Community PlanIt, an online engagement platform for local planning efforts, led Knight’s TED Master Class called “3 Tools for Democracy in the Digital Age.” The class included a lively discussion with the TED Community on tools that place citizens at the center of decision-making in their communities. Paula Ellis, vice president/strategic initiatives at Knight Foundation, who led the master class, reports:

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China’s business journalism education program to expand at Tsinghua University

Published February 28, 2012 by Knight Foundation

Knight Foundation support helps increase student body, deepen curriculum

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Knight News Challenge opens, seeking to accelerate media innovation

Published February 27, 2012 by Knight Foundation

Theme is ‘Networks,’ application process on Tumblr is simplest ever; $5 million offered over three rounds in 2012

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Detroit Institute of Arts’ popular Inside|Out Program receives Knight support

Published February 23, 2012 by Knight Foundation

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation provides funding for next two years

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Art leaders in Miami and San Jose join Knight Foundation’s National Arts Advisory Committee

Published February 23, 2012 by Knight Foundation

Related “Two art leaders join Knight’s national arts advisory committee” by Elizabeth Miller on Knight Blog Download high-res images here: • Silvia Cubiñá • Anjee Helstrup-Alvarez Miami (Feb. 23, 2012) – Miami’s Silvia Karman Cubiñá and San Jose’s Anjee Helstrup-Alvarez have been named to the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s National Arts Advisory Committee. The […]