Knight staff and trustees participated in the 2008 Gulf Coast Habitat for Humanity build. Tonight, the Newseum marks the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina by showcasing a new exhibit focusing on the reporters who covered the storm. The exhibit highlights the challenges that two newspapers – The Times-Picayune in New Orleans and the Sun Herald […]
Article · September 16, 2010 by marika.lynch
The Miami Herald dedicated its Sunday arts section to profiling “20 under 40,” a group of up-and-coming South Florida artists who have helped transform the local arts scene. Three are winners of the Knight Arts Challenge Miami. They are: Patrick Dupre Quigley, whose choral group Seraphic Fire’s chamber version of Monteverdi’s Vespers of the Blessed Virgin topped the […]
Article · September 15, 2010 by marika.lynch
Lauren “Lolo” Reskin The Miami Herald dedicated its Sunday arts section to profiling ’20 under 40,’ a group of up-and-coming South Florida artists who have helped transform the local arts scene. Three are winners of the Knight Arts Challenge Miami. They are: Patrick Dupre Quigley, whose choral group Seraphic Fire’s chamber version of Monteverdi’s Vespers […]
Article · September 15, 2010 by marika.lynch
Today’s Philadelphia Inquirer includes a story on the Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia, a newly launched contest that will bring $9 million in new funding to the city over three years. The Challenge will look for the most innovative ideas in the arts that both inspire and enrich Philadelphia’s communities. Applications will be accepted beginning Oct. […]
Article · September 15, 2010 by marika.lynch
Knight Foundation is bringing new support for the Philadelphia arts through a community-wide contest that funds the best ideas for the arts in the city. Applications for the Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia will be accepted beginning Oct. 5 at KnightArts.org. Anyone can enter the Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia ‘ established arts institutions, independent artists of […]
Article · September 14, 2010 by marika.lynch
Knight Foundation President and CEO Alberto Ibargüen Monday made the case for why community foundations should fund news and information projects, in a speech at the Council on Foundations’ fall conference in Charlotte. “The need for information is critical to each and every one of your communities.’ It is important to our democracy; it is […]
Article · September 14, 2010 by marika.lynch
Stumble Safely helps D.C. residents find a safe walk home. Wired.com’s Gadget Lab blog recently featured Knight News Challenge winner Development Seed, after the company developed customized maps showing areas that might be dangerous for drunken pedestrians in Washington, D.C. The Stumble Safely site lets users plot a safe way to stumble home after an […]
Article · September 8, 2010 by marika.lynch
When Jim West visited the National Inventors Hall of Fame School in Akron last year, the inventor was handed a very practical task: to work with fifth graders to lessen the amount of sound traveling into the school’s new library. “Believe it or not, these students understood the acoustics and behavior of sound to the […]
Article · September 7, 2010 by marika.lynch
Sarah Cohen, the Knight Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Public Policy at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy, figured there had to be an easier way for journalists to organize their notes on chronological events. ‘Time and place are two of the most important aspects in stories,’ Cohen said. ‘Most reporters I […]
Article · September 1, 2010 by marika.lynch
This post by Micah Sifrey was originally published on TechPresident.com, the Personal Democracy Forum’s blog. Three years ago, we had a modest idea here at Personal Democracy Forum: that the internet could be a vehicle for transforming the presidential debates then underway. Instead of relying solely on journalists to determine the questions being asked of […]
Article · August 23, 2010 by marika.lynch
This post was originally published by the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas blog. During the wave of violence in Kenya in 2008, that stemmed from conflicts among rival political factions, a group of friends created a system in which persons in various locations could send and share, via the Internet, news about attacks […]
Article · August 23, 2010 by marika.lynch