Knight foundation grantees writing background papers for a conference at Sanford on non-profit media included Penelope Muse Abernathy and Brant Houston, both Knight Chairs in Journalism.

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James T. Hamilton, the Director of Duke's DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy, and Joel Kramer of MinnPost also wrote on emerging non-profit forms.

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Stephen Engelberg, managing editor of ProPublica, spoke at the conference.

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Check out the conference's web site, where you'll find the final conference report (.pdf) including the background papers, plus'reactions from attendees.