Jeff Sonderman
Sep. 20, 2012
10:30 am
The winners of the latest Knight News Challenge announced today include a collaboration between developers at The New York Times and The Washington Post to create a free, comprehensive database of past U.S. election results.
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Jeff Sonderman
Sep. 5, 2012
10:09 am
The Knight Foundation announced $3.67 million in matching funds today that will support 20 local news and information projects.
The
Knight Community Information Challenge aims to boost home-grown news efforts that already have some financial support from local foundations.
The winning projects include many efforts to increase specific types of reporting in specific communities:
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Steve Myers
May 23, 2012
12:13 pm
Knight Foundation | VoiceofSanDiego.org | CJR
The Knight Foundation is giving VoiceofSanDiego.org $186,000 to build a membership program called "
Raise Your Voice" and to publish a print and digital magazine.
VoiceofSanDiego.org will publish
Voice of San Diego Monthly using MagCloud, which offers on-demand publication of print and digital magazines (including iPad editions). The magazine is free to Voice of San Diego members
who give $501 or more a year; others can buy it in print for $7.99 or in digital form for $2.99.
CEO Scott Lewis writes that the magazine will give its stories a longer shelf life:
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Steve Myers
May 18, 2012
4:13 pm
Knight Foundation |
Common Sense Journalism
Eric Newton, senior adviser to the president at Knight, didn't hold back in his criticism of the state of journalism education in a speech last week. Although he praised a handful of schools that have revamped their programs to help chart the future of news, he spent a lot of time criticizing "the middle of the bell curve."
With all due respect, journalism and communication education plays at least second chair, and sometimes first chair, in the symphony of slowness. What I mean is the reaction time to new things. Consider this: On one side of campus, engineers are inventing the Internet, browsers and search engines. But the news industry is slow to respond. Then public radio slower still. Foundations even slower. Government slower yet again. Then comes the journalism and communication schools, on the other side of campus from the engineers. And finally, public television.
Who suffers from the symphony of slowness? Students and society.
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Jeff Sonderman
Apr. 30, 2012
9:59 am
Rapid changes in digital journalism and its audiences have inspired a lot of research. Much of that research measures
how much things have changed, or describes
the latest state of affairs.
But where’s the research that tells us
what to do about it?
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the Tow Foundation are hoping to fill that gap, by giving Columbia School of Journalism $2 million to fund what you might call “applied research in journalism” -- studies that not only describe what’s happening, but prescribe the best practices for journalists to follow.
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Jeff Sonderman
Dec. 15, 2011
7:00 am
A newspaper, public radio station and university in Macon, Ga., are moving in together and sharing content, in a unique partnership aimed at strengthening local news reporting, thanks to a grant from the Knight Foundation being announced today.
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Steve Myers
Nov. 7, 2011
3:40 pm
The New York Times
In a story detailing challenges facing "PBS NewsHour," Elizabeth Jensen writes that the program must find a replacement for Chevron's $2 million sponsorship, which the company decided not to renew for 2012. NewsHour approached the Knight Foundation, which paid to revamp the "NewsHour" website in 2009, but Knight said no. Eric Newton, senior adviser to the president at Knight, tells Jensen, "Our issue with it is that it’s what they usually do. We’re interested in new and different ways of doing things, because one thing you can say about the future of news is it’s not going to be the same. Folks who can be nimble and change are going to do better in the future than those who are slow to change.” ||
Related:
PublicSource, a Pittsburgh-area investigative news site,
launches with the help of a Knight Community Information Challenge grant
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Steve Myers
Oct. 17, 2011
10:12 am
Journalism.co.uk
The Knight News Challenge will continue beyond its initial five-year run, shifting to a shorter cycle of three contests per year rather than one. "The innovation cycle is so short that ideas can get old in the annual contest," Eric Newton, senior adviser to the president of the Knight Foundation, told Rachel McAthy of Journalism.co.uk after he addressed the World Editors Forum in Vienna. Each contest may focus on a different area, such as mobile, he said. Google,
which contributed $1 million to the 2011 winners, will continue to support the contest. ||
Related: From crowdfunding to data-driven journalism, four ways the Knight News Challenge is shaping the future (Poynter.org) ||
Earlier: Knight News Challenge gives $1.5 million to projects that filter, examine data (Poynter.org)
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Mallary Jean Tenore
Sep. 21, 2011
8:32 am
As traditional news outlets across the country cut back, investigative journalists have been confronted with a difficult question: How do we hold the powerful accountable in the midst of hard times?
Journalists in Colorado have tackled that question by launching … Read more
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Jeff Sonderman
June 22, 2011
6:58 am
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