Connecting Individuals Moderator: Charles Firestone, Aspen Institute Scribe: Susan Knudten, Rose Community Foundation Information is as important to a community’s health as safe streets, clean air, etc. How do you evaluate it? How do you improve it? Information serves many purposes: Coordination Solving problems (Example: a Louisiana newspaper ran a story pre-Katrina about the possibility […]
Knight Foundation has six summer interns who bring with them experience doing volunteer work for the homeless and arts groups, and academic backgrounds in international politics, philosophy and economics, among other areas. Below is a little about each of them, and what they are contributing to Knight Foundation. Claire Austin, a rising junior at Georgetown […]
You’ve just witnessed a Random Act of Culture®. On Friday, May 14, The Miami Music Project, the Arsht Center & the Knight Foundation joined forces to bring orchestral music to the masses. In fact, we brought it smack dab to the middle of Government Center at the height of lunchtime. 4 musicians, 2 violins, 1 […]
Finalists in the 2010 KAC will be announced shortly and they’re in luck. The Knight Arts Challenge has partnered with the University of Miami’s LaunchPad to help guide finalists in creating their detailed budgets, projections and complete applications. One of last year’s finalists reached out to LaunchPad on her own last year and became a […]
The 2010 Knight Arts Challenge is officially in phase 2, as our application period closed March 15. Thanks to all our applicants! Up next: the seven-person reader panel is currently reviewing all the applications and narrowing them down to a list of finalists (exact number tbd). Finalists will be announced in early May and invited […]
Two Knight Foundation grantees have made MIT Technology Review’s list of 10 technologies to watch. Printcasting, a project of Participata, which is currently testing a service that allows amateur publishers to create newsletters and magazines, is supported by an $837,000 grant from the Knight News Challenge. The second Knight Foundation project on the list is […]
Mapping Your Community’s News Ecosystem – Day 1 BREAKOUT REPORT Session One: March 1, 2010 Facilitator: Esther Thorson, Missouri School of Journalism Scribe: Megan Brownell, Arizona Foundation Indexing communication needs in your local community means defining the variables you need to look at in order to understand needs and begin the mapping process. Many scholarly assessments exist […]
BREAKOUT REPORT Session 1: March 1, 2010 Facilitator: Jerry Wareham, President and CEO WVIZ/PBS and 90.3 WCPN Ideastream Scribe: Carolyn Torgersen, VP for Communications, Community Foundation for the Lowcountry The group was asked the question – what institutions in your community are already information providers? A sampling of responses: Local media, newspaper, public radio Colleges and universities […]
BREAKOUT REPORT Session Two: March 2, 2010 Facilitator: Diana Mitsu Klos, American Society of News Editors Scribe: Susan Knudten, Rose Community Foundation Introductory Remarks: News literacy is being able to assess what’s true. Media literacy and digital literacy: What are the tools and means of conveyance? How do we give everyone equal access to tools and knowledge […]
20 winners emerged from 1,562 applicants today to win $3.7 million in the 2009 Knight Arts Challenge. Winning projects include: * Reinstalling a live orchestra at the Miami City Ballet * Creating an arts incubator Wynwood * Launching an online site for selling & promoting locally-produced music For a complete list of winners click here. […]
Caption: J-NewVoices.org grantee GrandAveNews.org is chronicling life in Coconut Grove, Fla. WASHINGTON, D.C. – American University’s J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism is calling for a new round of grant proposals to fund community news start-ups around the country. Nine projects will each receive up to $25,000 in grants over two years. The call for […]