DETROIT, November 30, 2011 – Hatch Detroit will engage more residents in supporting small retail businesses in local neighborhoods, with a $50,000 grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Related “Hatching leadership and retail across Detroit” on KnightBlog Hatch Detroit recently concluded its inaugural contest where tens of thousands of public voters […]
A note from Knight: In 2008, Knight Foundation helped launch Spot.us with $340,000 in seed funding through the Knight News Challenge, an international contest to find innovative, digital ideas for delivering news and information. Today, Founder David Cohn reports exciting news: American Public Media’s Knight-funded Public Insight Network has acquired Spot.us. Related “Spot.Us merges with […]
Mentorship program for African-American playwrights, coral as a living art form, new dance company among the winners of Knight Foundation’s Knight Arts Challenge
Malcolm Moran, Penn State’s Knight Chair for Sports Journalism and Society, is resource for outlets covering 2011’s most reported sports story
Note: Knight Foundation has funded Change By Us to help put people at the center of citizen change. The project is funded through Knight Foundation’s Technology for Engagement Initiative. (New York – November 21, 2011) – Change by Us, a new digital platform that enables citizens to connect with their local governments and collaborate on […]
Philadelphia (November 21, 2011) – Mayor Michael A. Nutter and the Mayor’s Office of Communications announced the launch of the ‘Change By Us Philly’ website. This website serves as an interactive, social media platform that enables citizens to connect with City officials, community-based organizations and each other to share ideas and create projects to benefit […]
EVANSTON, Ill. – A pioneering program to bring software developers into journalism will be expanded under a new grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to Northwestern University. The three-year, $250,000 grant will enable Medill to provide scholarships to at least six people with computer science backgrounds to earn a master’s degree in journalism. […]