Davis Guggenheim, Oscar winning director of global warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth has set his sights on his next topic – the sad state of K-12 education in America. Waiting for Superman opens Sept 24, but Dennis Scholl, Knight’s vice president of the arts and Miami program director, recently had an opportunity to preview the […]
Photo: Knight International Journalism Fellow Shu Choudhary leads the session Washington, D.C. – Six new Knight International Journalism Fellows will manage high-impact journalism projects designed to make officials more accountable and governments more transparent. They will help journalists track massive aid flows in Haiti, establish investigative teams in the Middle East and increase coverage of poverty […]
Photo: Knight International Journalism Fellow Shu Choudhary leads a session. Washington, D.C. – Six new Knight International Journalism Fellows will help spread media innovation in developing countries. They’ll use new digital tools to increase access to public information in India, establish investigative teams in the Middle East, track corruption in Panama, launch the first broadcast […]
$6 million Knight Foundation award also creates Chinese-language service on IJNet.org
Knight Foundation Spearheads South Florida Campaign with $1 Million Donation
Knight Foundation Leads City-Wide Campaign
Washington, DC— The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) has selected five Knight International Journalism Fellows to lead year-long projects in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America designed to help media provide better access to quality information in the communities they serve. In keeping with the program’s commitment to selecting the best journalists from around the world […]
The New York Times writes about Knight News Challenge (the ~$5 million yearly contest to fund innovative news delivery ideas) winner David Cohn’s Spot.Us project today: ‘Spot Us would give a new sense of editorial power to the public,’ said David Cohn, a 26-year-old Web journalist who received a $340,000, two-year grant from the Knight […]
Gates to Sponsor Health Journalism Fellows in Africa
By Carol Guensburg Copyright (c) 2008 American Journalism Review http://www.ajr.org/Article.asp?id=4458 Since 1993, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation has funded journalism training on health issues, including funneling up to $50,000 to a handful of fellows each year to support reporting projects. But, dismayed by cuts in newsroom staffing, newsholes and airtime – and the sketchy reporting that […]
AP Online Video Network & Top Mobile Carriers to Distribute Weekly Street Team 08 Reports