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,” […]
Article from the 2006 Knight Foundation Annual Report The digital revolution is not for the faint of heart. At Columbia University’s prestigious Graduate School of Journalism, Dean Nicholas Lemann bridges the practice and teaching of journalism, on campus and in the field. The New Yorker writer is leading a high-profile effort to develop a series […]
An Article from Knight Foundation’s 2006 Annual Report January The Immigration Funders Network, a group of national funders interested in the impact of immigration on children and families, gathers in Miami. Above, Ismael Ahmed, executive director of the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS), a Knight grantee in Dearborn, Mich., speaks at […]
JOURNALISM PROGRAM When the Knight brothers owned newspapers, in the words of Jack Knight, they worked to “bestir the people into an awareness of their own condition, provide inspiration for their thoughts and rouse them to pursue their true interests.” Today, a stunning array of handheld devices is turning life into a guided tour. But […]
Television stations across California will air proof this Friday that graduate student journalists can report and produce quality, top-flight journalism on the controversial issues of our time. The July 21 segment — a piece on immigration created this summer by University of Southern California graduate students – is but the first of a collection of […]
New York, N.Y.—Vartan Gregorian, president of Carnegie Corporation of New York announced today that five additional journalism schools at major research universities have been asked to submit proposals for curriculum enrichment and to join an initiative begun this year to revitalize journalism education. The five schools, which will present proposals for the approval of the […]
Schools of Journalism at Columbia, Northwestern, Berkeley and USC, and the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard are part of The Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education. The initiative respond