Sharon Pian Chan is director of journalism initiatives at The Seattle Times. Photo above: Members of the audience interact with one another during a small-group discussion at an Education Lab community conversation, “Discipline that works for all,” at South Seattle College on May 20, 2015. (Leah Todd / The Seattle Times) This is how a big story usually happens at a news organization: A journalist spends weeks researching and developing the story, days writing it. As soon as the story is published – at the exact moment the community starts getting excited […]
Caroline Southey is editor of The Conversation Africa, an independent source of news and views from the academic and research community, delivered direct to the public. The Conversation Africa is supported by Knight Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the South African National Research Foundation. Here Southey writes about the launch of the […]
The Knight News Challenge on Elections is now closed. We received more than 1,000 submissions. Thanks to everyone who entered and joined the conversation at newschallenge.org. Here’s what happens next. RELATED LINKS “When emotion trumps information: The importance of storytelling in promoting civic participation” by Martin Kaplan, 03/18/15 “Will knowing how the public square works […]
Photo by Flickr user Dean Terry. David W. Nickerson is an associate professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame. Below he writes on inspirations for Knight News Challenge: Elections, which asks the question, How might we better inform voters and increase civic participation before, during and after elections? The best nonpartisan ideas […]
Photo from “Carry On!” 2013 by Farrington Starnes. Courtesy of BareBones Productions This weekend, BareBones Productions will open the first of five showings of “Metamorphosoup,” the 21st iteration of the performing arts nonprofit’s “Annual Halloween Outdoor Puppet Extravaganza.” Billed as a “community-created spectacle” the all-ages production is as much a ritual pageant marking the waning […]
Opening night for “Imagined Landscapes,” solo show from Duval-Carrié at PAMM. Edouard Duval-Carrié needs no introduction to the local art world, or to the socially active community. Fresh off his highly acclaimed solo exhibition at PAMM last spring, Duval-Carrié has cemented a permanent place in Miami’s art pantheon. But he now joins nationally significant art […]
By Carrie Chapter, PTC dramaturg Philadelphia Theatre Company welcomed back a revitalized version of the musical, NERDS, this season. The show comically re-imagines the early days of tech titans Bill Gates and Steve Jobs in Silicon Valley. Here is an excerpt of an interview we conducted with the creators. A Very NERD-y Homecoming: Downloading with […]
By Alberto Ibargüen, President and CEO, Knight Foundation In the decades we’ve supported CPJ at this dinner, I never imagined I would be up here saying this: There is a New War on Journalists. ALBERTO IBARGÜEN Not just new battles, but an entirely new war … a 21st century war, with blurred geographic lines and […]
Knight News Challenge: Libraries offers applicants a chance to share in $2.5 million by focusing on the question “How might we leverage libraries as a platform to build more knowledgeable communities?” Below, Chris Jowaisas, senior program officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, writes about libraries playing an active role in helping solve community challenges. […]
Reimagining libraries in the digital age is collaborative work that requires input from across the community–but it’s also essential in building, competitive world-class cities. That was the framing from Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos A. Giménez as he introduced a discussion on the “Future of Libraries” at the InterContinental Miami hotel Monday. “The library forms an […]
Lilly Weinberg is Special Assistant to the President at Knight Foundation. Photo: Maker space event on Chattanooga Library’s 4th floor. Archived Video With budget cuts threatening systems across the country, city leaders are asking tough questions about the value of public libraries in the digital age. As guardians of our tax dollars, they should be! […]
