With politics dominating the news, the Sunlight Foundation wanted to find a new way to add more context to articles and blog posts about members of Congress. So Sunlight launched “Politiwidgets,” which allows writers to easily embed information, from who funds their campaigns, to who gets their earmarks. So far, 106 websites have included the […]
Article · October 29, 2010 by marika.lynch
Entries continue to pour in for the LeBron James Poetry Contest, which closes tonight. So far, 1,000 entries have been received and ESPN, the New Yorker and NPR are covering the contest’organized”by the Miami Herald and O, Miami: A Contemporary Poetry Festival, a Knight Foundation grantee. What do you have to say? Are you so happy (or depressed) […]
Article · October 22, 2010 by marika.lynch
In September, the Hawaii Community Foundation won a Knight Community Information Challenge grant to launch Hiki No, a student news network in conjunction with PBS Hawaii that will broadcast throughout the islands. AJR.com recently reported on the project: Honolulu lost one of its two newspapers in May, and the city’s three commercial television news operations […]
Article · October 20, 2010 by marika.lynch
Jan Schaffer Today, J-Lab, the Institute for Interactive Journalism announced four new partners are joining its Networked Journalism project, which’pairs traditional media organizations with community news sites. The experiment, funded by Knight Foundation, explores ways for new and traditional media to amplify and share content – and develop advertising networks. The new members are: the […]
Article · October 20, 2010 by marika.lynch
Macon Film buffs, theater lovers, fans of African American art and others will benefit from projects put on by six cultural groups with $77,000 in Knight funding, the foundation announced today. The grants are among the first in Knight Foundation’s new national arts program, which focuses on Macon and seven other communities where the Knight […]
Article · October 20, 2010 by marika.lynch
Knight Foundation is helping the Huffington Post Investigative Fund and the Center for Public Integrity join forces – creating one of the largest investigative newsrooms in the country. The foundation announced today it will support the new operation with a $250,000 grant. ‘In general investigative journalism has been suffering in the commercial sector, more than […]
Article · October 19, 2010 by marika.lynch
Coming soon: A new set of apps from the Sunlight Foundation that will put government information on a range of topics – from the environment to health care and personal finance – at the click of a website or smart phone. Knight Foundation is funding them with a $1.2 million grant announced today. The new […]
Article · October 18, 2010 by marika.lynch
The following is a report from Morgan Rogers of The Community Foundation Serving Boulder County. The foundation won a challenge grant to launch an information campaign about the need for early childhood education. The effort was recently featured as part of a story on America Public Media’s Marketplace. David Brancaccio of Marketplace and on public […]
Article · October 18, 2010 by marika.lynch
The Poynter Institute’s NewsU is offering a webinar on Thursday Oct. 21 to train reporters, producers, editors and others to use the tools available through Patchwork Nation to deepen their political reporting. Knight Foundation provided Pathwork Nation with $450,000 in funding to extend its unique nationwide community mapping project beyond counties, drilling down into congressional […]
Article · October 18, 2010 by marika.lynch
Damian Thorman Helping legal immigrants become naturalized citizens will help strengthen U.S. communities by allowing more voices into the local and national debate, Damian Thorman, Knight Foundation’s national program director, said in a speech to the National Immigration Integration Conference in Boston. ‘Today, in America, there are more than 12.6 million green card holders who […]
Article · October 13, 2010 by marika.lynch
The Center for Public Integrity, a 20-year leader in nonprofit investigative journalism, will speed its transformation into a 21st century news organization with a new $1.7 million grant from Knight Foundation. ‘America needs investigative journalism, and investigative journalism needs new funding sources,’ Eric Newton, Knight Foundation’s vice president for journalism, said. ‘The Center for Public […]
Article · October 7, 2010 by marika.lynch