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.
Public Laboratory
Now on Google Earth: D.I.Y Maps
Community-generated open source maps, captured from Public Laboratory's D.I.Y balloon and kite kits, have been added to Google Earth and Google Maps
Meet Our Grantees
Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art Inc
To complete construction of the final of the five new buildings and two historic buildings that make up the new Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art campus in Biloxi and to produce a related documentary
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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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Get UpdatesNews Releases
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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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Seeking innovation at home by learning from abroad
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Central Corridor Light Rail makes progress to strengthen community opportunities
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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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What universities teaching journalism can do to remain relevant: create, innovate, collaborate & connect http://t.co/pf1L8sWX
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Seeking #innovation at home by learning abroad http://t.co/frEwlsR8 by @susanamat v @geeksonaplane#entrepreneurship
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RT @ibarguen: Dinner at the Barnes Philadelphia. http://t.co/tsWJIyOx
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The Three E's of Social Entrepreneurship & Why it Pays to be "Bilingual" http://t.co/bbQzhUMu #socent #AS2012 via @Ashoka
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MT @Poynter: Journalism schools should create "teaching hospitals," says @knightfdn's @ericnewton1: http://t.co/C8k9nM4s Worth weekend read
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#connect2compete gets started with inexpensive #broadband & digital tools in San Diego http://t.co/iywVzpQv via @andysherry
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.@NEAarts chairman blogs about his trip to #Macon & its Opera House: "it'd be the pride of any city" http://t.co/XgEAJsUQ v @knightmacon
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.@IrvineFdn discusses its approach to foundation-wide assessment http://t.co/Zappy8jp via @jonsotsky #philanthropy
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Challenging #journalism schools to adopt 'teaching hospital' model to create greater community engagement http://t.co/IP3I9W1Q v @NiemanLab
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Via @CitizenEffect: Results are in for @wdet @Detroit4Detroit $50k Airtime giveaway! http://t.co/3s1untE2 #Detroit cc @ModelD @MichiganCorps
Publications
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Playgrounds That Build Communities: An Evaluation of KaBOOM! in Eight Cities
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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