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
More than 200 artists and supporters – along with Philadelphia Mayor Michael A. Nutter and Chief Cultural Officer Gary Steuer– celebrated the launch of the Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia last night at TRUST in Old City. The contest, which will offer $9 million over three years to ideas for the arts that will enrich and […]
Article · October 6, 2010 by marika.lynch
More than 200 artists and supporters – along with Philadelphia Mayor Michael A. Nutter and Chief Cultural Officer Gary Steuer – celebrated the launch of the Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia last night at TRUST in Old City. The contest, which will seeks ideas for the arts that will enrich and engage Philadelphia, ‘is accepting applications […]
Article · October 6, 2010 by marika.lynch
What if you knew not just how people were finding your hyperlocal website, but what they were looking for — and whether they found it? And how that information affected their life and your organization’s goals? Knight Foundation has just posted a new report to help its Knight Community Information Challenge winners measure their success […]
Article · October 1, 2010 by marika.lynch
What if you knew not just how people were finding your hyperlocal website, but what they were looking for ‘ and whether they found it? And how that information affected their life and your organization’s goals? Knight Foundation has just posted a new report to help its Knight Community Information Challenge winners measure their success […]
Article · October 1, 2010 by marika.lynch
Jan Shaffer This entry, written by J-Lab’s Jan Schaffer, was originally posted at www.j-lab.org. J-Lab has funded community news startups since 2005, when the movement to launch independent hyperlocal news websites began in earnest. To date, we’ve seeded the launch of 55 ‘New Voices’ experiments – with encouraging support from Knight Foundation. Now, it’s time […]
Article · September 30, 2010 by marika.lynch
Check out today’s Washington Post and msnbc.com: student reporters and investigative journalists have teamed up for two new stories on transportation safety in an unprecedented national reporting project. Federal recommendations on avoiding plane crashes often go ignored, according to one article. Another reports that America’s highways are more dangerous due to lax medical certification for […]
Article · September 29, 2010 by marika.lynch
U.C. Berkeley student journalist Ryan Phillips interviews a trucker at a stop in Arizona while on assignment for News21. School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University and executive editor of News21. She was the lead editor on this summer’s investigative project on transportation safety, and wrote this post for KnightBlog. Five years […]
Article · September 27, 2010 by marika.lynch
Dr. Frank Douglas, president and CEO of the Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron The Austen BioInnovation Institute together with the University of Akron Research Foundation has won a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration. The funds will support a project that ‘speeds the time required to take new technologies […]
Article · September 24, 2010 by marika.lynch
The City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism announced today it will establish the nation’s most intensive program in entrepreneurial journalism with the creation of the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism and the nation’s first Master of Arts degree in Entrepreneurial Journalism. The $10 million Tow-Knight Center will receive $3 million from Knight […]
Article · September 20, 2010 by marika.lynch
Oxfam has won the 1ForAll campaign’s first video contest for a piece that touts the freedoms of the First Amendment. Only 1 in 25 Americans can name the First Amendment’s five freedoms and the majority can only come up with one.’That’s why the’1 For All campaign was founded ‘ to remind Americans about how they use these […]
Article · September 17, 2010 by marika.lynch