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TechnologyMTV inspired youth vote through a “Street Team” of young reporters
This piece is one of a series that looks at the Knight News Challenge winners, and their thoughts on future trends, on the occasion of the challenge’s 10th anniversary. Long before Barack Obama exploded onto the national scene to capture the Democratic presidential nomination, Ian Rowe was trying to figure out how to ignite the youth vote […]
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“Is there any justification for continuing to ask taxpayers to fund NPR and PBS?”
PART OF A KNIGHT FOUNDATION SERIES ON PUBLIC MEDIA 50 YEARS AFTER THE PASSAGE OF THE PUBLIC BROADCASTING ACT In mid-1971, less than a year after the Public Broadcasting Service was created, a 35-year-old lawyer in the Nixon White House warned that conservatives were being “confronted with a long-range problem of significant social consequences – […]
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Speakers
Floyd Abrams Floyd Abrams is senior counsel at Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP and adjunct professor at New York University Law School. He has written three books about the First Amendment including 2017’s “The Soul of the First Amendment.” Abrams has been counsel or co-counsel in numerous cases before the Supreme Court ranging from the […]
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JournalismNew study offers insights into funding and ethical practices in nonprofit journalism
Findings show rising funding, high levels of transparency but few written guidelines on editorial independence
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Speakers Rebecca Arno Rebecca Arno is the Vice President for Communications for The Denver Foundation, a community foundation serving the seven-county Metro Denver region. Rebecca serves as chair of the board of the Colorado Nonprofit Association and on the board of Hunger Free Colorado. She also serves as chair of the board of The Communications […]
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JournalismU.S. newsrooms to benefit from global innovations in journalism with $3.4 million in new Knight Foundation support to International Center for Journalists
Knight International Journalism Fellows to share expertise, promote cross-border collaboration
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ArtsHamtramck’s spring fling: Jessica Frelinghuysen, Tim Hailey and more
Tim Hailey snags a photo-op at the opening of his show for Public Pool’s 5th anniversary! Culture mavens, revelers, music lovers and intellectuals needed look no further than Hamtramck this weekend, where an astounding confluence of culture left the city awash in action, even as the first stirring of spring started to break down the […]
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2017 Speakers Bill Adair Bill Adair is the Knight Chair at Duke University. He is the creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning website PolitiFact and a leader in the global fact-checking movement. At Duke, he heads the journalism program as director of the DeWitt Wallace Center and conducts research on fact-checking in the Reporters’ Lab. He […]
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JournalismConversation US bridges gap between universities and local communities with compelling content
Maria Balinska is editor of The Conversation US, which is receiving $120,000 in support from Knight Foundation to expand the reach of its content to local communities. Above: A news meeting at The Conversation US in Boston. Photo courtesy The Conversation US. We’ve been eating cake in The Conversation US office, despite the heat outside, because we […]
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