Media Innovation
Knight News Challenge: Data
Starting May 31 through June 20, we’ll be looking for ideas that help unlock the power of data, by collecting, processing, visualizing or otherwise making it available, understandable and actionable.
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Making Internet video global
Knight Foundation and Mozilla announce a $1 million investment in Amara, which makes video more accessible around the globe by simplifying the way to caption and subtitle it.
Detroit
Connecting creative entrepreneurs
The Detroit Creative Corridor Center will launch an online platform and festival allowing individuals and institutions to engage and partner with Detroit’s creative, entrepreneurial community.
Macon
How arts can help build community
Recently at the Georgia Arts Network's annual meeting, a Random Act of Culture™ surprised the National Endowment for the Arts’ Chairman and the 200 people gathered to hear his remarks.
Evaluation: BattleStorm and Macon Money
The impact of social games
Knight funded social impact games as pilot projects in two cities. They took place in real-time with real people in the real world and they supported ongoing efforts to tackle local issues.
Journalism
To improve print, think digital
Eric Newton: How digital tools can improve newspapers and better report the news.
Meet Our Grantees
World Wide Workshop for Children's Media Technology & Learning
To advance a new and successful way of teaching digital literacy and community engagement to students and young adults in San Jose and Silicon Valley by using the Globaloria game design system
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We fund ideas …from people with the vision, tenacity, courage, know-how, and commitment to discovery to see them through.
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‘Design in Detroit’ connects wider community with city’s creative movement
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New study to explore media diversity in Southern California
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Knight Foundation and Mozilla provide $1 million in funding to Amara, pioneer in crowd-sourced video translation
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San Jose’s Mayfair community looks to address challenges from within
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New research effort at Columbia University seeks best practices for digital reporting
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MTV to gamify the election with "Fantasy Election ‘12” with $250,000 grant from Knight Foundation
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Best ideas for the Philadelphia arts receive $2.76 million in funding
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New models for arts journalism become reality with NEA and Knight Foundation support
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Google Earth publishes community-created maps from Knight-funded Public Lab archive
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New effort will engage more young professionals in civic leadership
Knight Blog
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Announcing the next Knight News Challenge: Data
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Feet in Two Worlds reporters win ethnic media awards
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BME Challenge brings together Philadelphia’s black male leaders
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Helping Detroit's creative entrepreneurs engage local supporters
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Blake: How the arts can build community in Macon
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Student journalist in Ohio wins award for investigative reporting
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Expanded News21 program to focus on voting rights this summer
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The Civic Commons needs your help to turn talk into community action
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Amara - making Internet video truly global
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Exploring the future of social entrepreneurship
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Leveraging online activity to drive offline action http://t.co/FtOeWory via @Detroit4Detroit
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Why data for 2nd #newschallenge? We r challenged w making sense of increasing amounts of info created http://t.co/Qs6Dttgm #bigdata #dataviz
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Project which partners student journalists w/ established media organizations wins reporting award http://t.co/9YiOnTI7
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.@MTV, @knightfdn & news organizations team up to produce fantasy-football-style-election game http://t.co/L5yKc9J1 via @NiemanLab
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If system of current journalism education is blocking you, @EricNewton1 suggests ways "to blow it up" http://t.co/pf1L8sWX
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Excited to announce next #newschallenge will focus on data. Open for apps May 31. http://t.co/cWt4gSfv @jsb gives preview
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.@AmaraSubs uses tech to allow people anywhere to translate audio so that video can be understood in many languages http://t.co/BJwGAjg5
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.@PublicLab spends 2 days doing aerial #mapping in Louisiana at Big Branch & Wetlands Conservancy. Great photos! http://t.co/yZNiESyW
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See the faces & read the bios of some of @CivicData's judges on Facebook http://t.co/3y8d6ZTL #dataviz #opendata
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Using the web to engage supporters in success of community's growing movement of young, civic-minded entrepreneurs http://t.co/5SzBRkD2
Publications
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Kaboom Evaluation
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Social Impact Games: Do They Work?
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Connect Detroit: Lessons from one city's efforts to bridge the digital divide
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State of Funding in Information and Media among Community and Place-based Foundations - Feb. 2012
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Collaboration and Connection
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Knight Community Information Challenge: 2011 Evaluation Findings
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Real Time Charitable Giving
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News Improved: NPR’s Transition from Public Radio to Public Media
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Getting Local: How Nonprofit News Ventures Seek Sustainability
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Assessing Community Information Needs
In The News
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‘Hidden in plain sight’
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Mozilla & Knight Foundation invest $1M in crowdsourced translation startup Amara
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Knight Foundation and Mozilla invest $1m in crowdsourced video translation project Amara
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NEA chairman praises Macon arts scene
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Macon Money: A social game in Georgia tries to bring residents together across traditional boundaries
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Troupe another way for New World’s Peter London to nurture dancers
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The Center for Collaborative Journalism at Mercer University
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Macon community benefitting from tech upgrades at Macon library
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Knight Foundation announces winners of 2012 arts challenge
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A quirky grass-roots effort supports an array of 'Awesome’ projects