Journalism
Collective Impact: Communities are moving the needle on big challenges
Article · July 2, 2012 by Knight Foundation
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Communities
Photo Credit: Flickr user callumscott2 By Paula Ellis, VP/Strategic Initiatives While engagement is widely seen as a core feature of the best solutions to community challenges, there isn’t yet an agreed upon way to describe it, copy it, measure it – or even know if it’s spreading. A yearlong study of collaboratives found that […]
Article · July 2, 2012 by Knight Foundation
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Communities
Knight Foundation pushes project L.I.F.T. past goal with $4 million gift to engage residents in effort, provide laptops for students
Article · June 28, 2012 by Knight Foundation
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CommunitiesPhoto Credit: Flickr user hackNY Earlier this month as part of its Technology for Engagement Initiative, Knight Foundation gathered thought leaders to talk about the best ways to use new tools and platforms to bring communities together around important issues. During the summit, a group considered the future of hackathons. Three of the group’s participants, Eric Gordon, diector of […]
Article · June 26, 2012 by Knight Foundation
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Journalism
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – (June 25) — The Poynter Institute, The American Press Institute (API) and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation are teaming up to provide a major public service at a critical time by launching a new program featuring ongoing training in the state-of-the-art digital tools that newspapers need to multiply […]
Article · June 25, 2012 by Knight Foundation
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CommunitiesPhoto Credit Flickr user: Brad Flickinger On Saturday, June 23, Knight Foundation’s Program Director in San Jose/Silicon Valley, Judith Kleinberg, is participating in a discussion around what digital literacy means at the American Library Association’s Annual Conference in Anaheim, C.A. The following, written by Renee Hobbs, a professor in the Harrington School of Comunicaton and Media at the University of Rhode […]
Article · June 21, 2012 by Knight Foundation
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JournalismThis week, Knight Foundation announced it will support a new data project to visualize the amount of time Iraq and Afghanistan veterans wait for VA services, including healthcare and education benefits. The effort is an example of the kind of projects Knight is seeking to fund through the Knight News Challenge: Data, which accelerates breakthrough ideas […]
Article · June 20, 2012 by Knight Foundation
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Journalism
The following interview with Adriano Farano, whose app Watchup won a 2012 Knight News Challenge grant, is crossposted from knight.standford.edu. Adriano Farano, a former Knight Fellow, has won a Knight News Challenge grant for Watchup, an iPad app that aggregates high-quality news videos. The award was announced today (Monday, June 18th) at the MIT Knight Civic […]
Article · June 19, 2012 by Knight Foundation
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Journalism
Funding will accelerate breakthrough projects that leverage existing networks to create new ways for informing and engaging communities
Article · June 18, 2012 by Knight Foundation
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JournalismA day before the 2012 MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference, the MIT Media Lab (pictured above) is hosting a 24 hour hack day. Dan Sinker, who heads the Knight-Mozilla OpenNews project, writes about what to expect. The following is crossposted from Sinker’s blog. Today, 60 developers, journalists, and data experts are converging on the MIT Media Lab to spend 24 hours collaborating, […]
Article · June 16, 2012 by Knight Foundation
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Journalism
Funded by Knight Foundation, the event will be hosted at the Knight Digital Media Center at USC Annenberg, October 18 – 20, 2012.
Article · June 15, 2012 by Knight Foundation