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JournalismKnight Foundation Announces Winners of 2010 News ChallengePress Release ·
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JournalismCongratulations to the 2010 Knight News Challenge Winners
The Knight News Challenge is designed to help speed media innovation by field-testing the most promising news technologies and techniques in specific geographic communities. We received 2,364 applications in the latest round of the contest and we are extremely excited to announce and congratulate the 2010 Knight News Challenge winners. And the winners are: CityTracking […]
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JournalismKnight Foundation is honored to host new media innovators
Yesterday, Knight Foundation was honored to host innovators in new media who helped us review final entries in the 2010 Knight News Challenge. It was a terrific experience to work with these inspiring and passionate people. Here’s a look at who was in the room: Click image to launch slideshow from the meeting Adriano Farano, […]
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JournalismCenter for Investigative Reporting hires 11 journalists for California watchdog site
Funded in part by a grant from the Knight Foundation, the Center for Investigative Reporting recently announced the hiring of 11 reporters, multimedia producers and editors for the creation of a new watchdog initiative called California Watch: ‘This dynamic and accomplished group of journalists will drive our latest entrepreneurial venture and focus on solutions to […]
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CommunitiesKnight Commission report spurs $7 million in Foundation investments
This morning, the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy presents its report – “Informing Communities: Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age.” (You can watch a livestream of the proceedings at KnightComm.org, and follow tweets about the event with the hashtag #knightcomm.) The findings of the Knight Commission have already prompted […]
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JournalismNew study: Al-Jazeera English encourages negotiation and reconciliation
Study by Queens University of Charlotte and USC Annenberg scholars finds the television network reduces dogmatic thinking in its audiences around the world
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Breakout 1, Day 2: The Information Needs of ‘Your’ Community
Day 2: Calo & Langer The Information Needs of YOUR Community Thursday, Feb. 21, 2008 Segovia Room Leader: Bob Calo, University of California at Berkeley Scribe: Christelle Langer, The Minneapolis Foundation The discussion opened with an analogy. This is a wave…some of us are riding it, others are watching it come toward us, some of us will […]
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Survey Finds Young Americans News Use Is Half That of Older Adults: Teens Daily News Use Is Even Lower Than That of Young Adults
Cambridge, MA, July 10, 2007 – Most of America’s teens and young adults do not follow the daily news closely, according to a new report released today by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. The report, titled “Young People and News,” […]
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Citizen Media Observer Says: Don’t Speak. Point!
An Article from Knight Forum By Bruno Giussani LUGANO, Switzerland (Jan. 25, 2007) — At a recent conference in California, Ethan Zuckerman, the Harvard-based co-founder of GlobalVoices and an insightful blogger, was asked whether newspaper and television editors were still relevant in these days of participatory, “citizen” journalism. He offered the best answer I’ve heard so far […]
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Sid Bedingfield to Lead Innovative PBS Content Project Produced by KCET Los Angeles and KQED San Francisco
Los Angeles/San Francisco, CA — May 17, 2006 — PBS member stations KCET Los Angeles and KQED San Francisco announced today the appointment of Sid Bedingfield, former CNN executive and producer, to the position of president of the newly created California Fault Line Productions — a non-profit production company created by KCET and KQED. Bedingfield […]
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JournalismEric Newton: Maynard Suite opening remarks at Harvard
Knight Foundation’s senior adviser to the president, Eric Newton, gave this talk on June 10, 2006 during the dedication of the Robert C. Maynard Suite at Harvard’s Nieman Foundation headquarters, Lippmann House. In 2006, Newton ran Knight Foundation’s journalism program: I had the great good fortune to work for Bob and Nancy Maynard from 1984 […]
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