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  • Communities
    Gates and Knight fund new project to improve measuring media impact

    The following blog post is written by Daniel Green, head of strategic partnerships, communications at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Mayur Patel, VP/strategy and assessment at Knight Founation. Photo credit: Flickr user atmtx. We’re excited to tell you about the launch of an initiative we’ve been discussing for some time. It’s called the Media Impact Project and it will be housed […]

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  • Journalism
    New Knight International Fellowships will advance media innovation worldwide

    WASHINGTON—From digitally mapping Amazon deforestation to launching a news innovation challenge in Africa, innovative work by the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) will be supported by a new $3.15 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The support for ICFJ’s Knight International Journalism Fellowships seeks to spur a global culture of […]

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  • Journalism
    Eight mobile ventures win $2.4 million in funding via Knight News Challenge

    Wikipedia to be more mobile and global with Knight Foundation funding Winners present projects via Web stream Friday, Jan. 18 at knightfoundation.org/live Releated LinkS “#newschallenge mobile winners exemplify the rate of innovation globally” by Chris Sopher on Knight Blog   Watch live video stream of winners ‘lightning-style’ presentations on Friday Jan. 18, 12:30 pm ET […]

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  • Journalism
    First Amendment education surveys keep challenging us to try new things

    We’ve done the largest string of studies about First Amendment education in America’s high schools, so what are we learning? This essay sketches out what our “Future of the First Amendment” surveys have been saying in 2004, 2006, 2007 and 2011. My bottom line: I had seen First Amendment education as a school issue; now, I think young people may be able […]

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  • Communities
    Millennial-led engagement helps students address educational challenges

    Starting Friday June 1, Mobilize.org is bringing together close to 100 community college students from across South Florida to discuss the challenges they face in completing their degrees. During the three-day summit, the organization’s first in Florida, college students will work collaboratively to propose ways to increase the number of people finishing school. On the […]

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  • Beyond books: why you should check out your public library

    The following op-ed, written for National Library Week, is co-authored by Paula Ellis, vice president/strategic initiatives at Knight Foundation, Deborah Jacobs, director, Global Libraries Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Julie Stasch, vice president of U.S. Programs at the MacArthur Foundation. Above: The Seattle Public Library, photo credit: Flickr user Joel Down. For many of us, the public […]

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  • Arts
    Artist In Residence In the Everglades (AIRIE) diary selection #1

    By Christopher Reiger, AIRIE Fellow  Friday, October 14, 2011: Tomorrow night, I’ll fly from San Francisco to Miami, Florida. Early on Sunday morning, I’ll drive a rental car southwest into the Everglades National Park, the site of my 2-week-long Artists In Residence In the Everglades (AIRIE) writing and art residency. In my application to the National […]

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  • Journalism
    Leading African Media Organization Announces $1 Million Fund for News Innovation

    A note from Knight: Below is a release by the International Center for Journalists about a new media innovation initiative in Africa that Knight Foundation is supporting. The African Media Initiative (AMI), the continent’s largest association of media owners and operators, has announced a $1 million fund to spur innovation in the news industry. The […]

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