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 […]
The Center is renamed Carnival Center for the Performing Arts
The Center is renamed Carnival Center for the Performing Arts;
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has awarded the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press a $2.5 million challenge grant, the largest grant in the organization’s 35-year history. The funds will be distributed over five years and will be split between the Reporters Committee’s endowment and its operating fund. “We’re delighted that […]
Knight Commission poll results urge NCAA to preserve academic integrity
ST PETERSBURG, FLA. – News University (www.newsu.org), The Poynter Institute’s innovative e-learning center that helps journalists through self-directed training, today released its latest beat-specific course, “On the Beat: Covering Cops and Crime.” This free course, a partnership between Criminal Justice Journalists (CJJ) and NewsU, helps reporters learn how to tackle various aspects of the police […]
BILOXI, Miss. — A $1 million lead grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation will help underwrite the strategic planning that will guide the long-term effort to rebuild the Mississippi Gulf Coast counties in the wake of Hurricane Katrina’s devastation. “Biloxi and Gulfport are Knight Foundation communities. We think of them as […]
MIAMI, Fla. — Emergency grants from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation totaling $1 million will help the residents of Biloxi and Harrison County, Miss., in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The grants – $500,000 to the American Red Cross and $500,000 to the Salvation Army – were announced today by Alberto […]
AKRON, Ohio — Regional economic development efforts in Northeast Ohio will get a boost in the form of $3.1 million in new grant commitments from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. An additional $1.1 million in new Knight grants will support youth programs, particularly focused on disadvantaged preteen and teen-age students at Simon […]
Alberto Ibargüen Elected to Succeed