The Online News Association’s annual gathering arrives in Los Angeles this week from Sept. 21-24. Come join the Knight Foundation in the many events that we will be participating in. Here’s a guide to events, panels, and workshops we think will be particularly useful, from among ONA’s rich programming. Say hello to the Knight Journalism […]

The 2024 Esserman-Knight Journalism Awards are accepting nominations from January 12 – February 12. Learn more! Congratulations to the 2022 winners of the Esserman-Knight Journalism Awards! This year’s Esserman-Knight Journalism Awards began with a public call for nominations, garnering 48 submissions from South Florida media that included newspapers, online, radio, television and podcasts. The selection committee […]

Civic Engagement and Public Policy Learn about the Beeck/CPI Report: The Opportunity Project for Cities: Lessons from Saint Paul and San José and some key findings and lessons to inform wider efforts in the field of civic innovation. MuckRock is a great tool to file, track, and share public records requests. Visit the MuckRock Smart […]

At the 2021 Knight Smart Cities Lab, community leaders and technologists came together to explore ways to leverage federal funding, data and digital technology to help make strong decisions and improve quality of life for residents in 2021 and beyond. As communities continue to rebuild and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, how can they harness […]

BUILDING RESILIENT CITY BUDGETS: A GUIDE FOR CITY PRACTITIONERS The COVID-19 pandemic turned the world — and in turn the health of cities — upside down. Communities are facing major challenges as they work to address economic downturn, structural inequity and other challenges brought on by the pandemic.  This year, Cityfi brought together a cohort […]

Download Transcriptions: English – Spanish REBUILDING TRUST IN AMERICA: THE CHALLENGE FOR JOURNALISTS On March 16, the Knight Foundation and the Carnegie-Knight Deans gather industry leaders to discuss the growing debate over the traditional journalistic value of objectivity. Moderator Nancy Gibbs, Director of the Shorenstein Center at Harvard, is joined by Meredith Artley, SVP and editor-in-chief, CNN Digital […]

Amid the aftermath of the 2020 elections, we’ve been left with questions and concerns about the health of our democracy. What are new ways in which philanthropic organizations can address these challenges? How can philanthropy continue to ensure pathways to economic opportunity?  In this second conversation from the reimagining democracy series, we spoke with leading […]

With everyone grappling over the future of democracy, Kettering and Knight Foundation commissioned 20 leading authors for their perspective on what is philanthropy’s long-term role in strengthening democracy. The result of those ideas appears in an essay compilation and a series of public conversations. The first, between Cathy J. Cohen, Yuval Levin and Daniel M. […]

SAVING THE AMERICAN FARM (IN SPECIAL PARTNERSHIP WITH MIAMI BOOK FAIR) How are government policies affecting American farms and rural communities and what can we do to support them? We talk with Sarah Frey, author of  “The Growing Season: How I Built a New Life–and Saved an American Farm” throughout this special series episode of […]