Facilitator: Lucy Bernholz, Visiting Scholar, Stanford University Scribe: Cynthia Ragland, Vice President, Marketing & Communications, Orange County Community Foundation Questions that interests Lucy: · What’s public · What’s private · Who decides? Civil societies are legal creatures built on two assumptions: 1. Money is the asset that matters. 2. The places that we gather are […]
Editor’s note: We’re reposting today’s Sunshine Week update from Steven Aftergood of Secrecy News, published by the Federation of American Scientists Project on Government Secrecy. Remember: The Knight News Challenge on Open Gov runs through March 18. Add #sunshineweek to your tweets. This week is Sunshine Week, an annual effort sponsored by journalism advocacy and civil […]
Facilitator: Stephen Goldsmith, Director, Innovation in American Government Program, Harvard University Scribe: Angelle Fouther, Senior Communications Officer, The Denver Foundation Stephen shared that he was the former Mayor of Indianapolis and Deputy Mayor of New York. Started dialogue with three observations on data collection and sharing: 1. We are going through an inventorying and evolution […]
Knight supports the OpenNews project to accelerate media innovation by embedding technologists in news organizations. Below, Dan Sinker introduces us to the newest group of fellows. The following is crossposted from mozillaopennews.org. This week, I’ve been blogging about what we’ve accomplished with the Knight-Mozilla OpenNews project, and where we’re going in 2013. But that 2013 plan left a big chunk […]
One idea in America we really get right is the near universal respect for the entrepreneur, Chris Hughes, one of Facebook’s co-founders told the abc* Continuity Forum in Miami this week. “It gets to the core of not only our economy, but who we are as a country.” He cited his involvement with the birth and explosion of […]
As part of its efforts to engage more Americans in the democratic process, Knight helped support the launch of a SuperPAC App, which lets people use their phone to identify political advertisements and receive objective, third-party information. It also allows the user to rate the ad, while understanding who and how much money is behind it, […]
Photo Credit: Flickr user girl_onthe_les The Knight News Challenge on mobile is now open for your applications. We’re asking eight questions. We’re asking you to make the case for your idea on using mobile to improve news, information, democracy and communities, and your ability to execute on it. We also encourage you to link to […]
Photo Credit Flickr user: Brad Flickinger On Saturday, June 23, Knight Foundation’s Program Director in San Jose/Silicon Valley, Judith Kleinberg, is participating in a discussion around what digital literacy means at the American Library Association’s Annual Conference in Anaheim, C.A. The following, written by Renee Hobbs, a professor in the Harrington School of Comunicaton and Media at the University of Rhode […]
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To say the drive-in is a dying institution gives too much credit to the handful still in operation (including the nation’s largest remaining — the Ford Drive-In, in Dearborn). Ours is the last generation that knows what a drive-in is, or even remembers watching a movie with feet kicked up on the dashboard, hearing the […]