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Knight News Challenge Winners 2009 Announced at MIT #knc09

June 17, 2009, 5:30 p.m., Posted by Knight Foundation – 0 Comments

Congratulations to all the winners of this year's Knight News Challenge that were announced this afternoon.

You can read the press release, great coverage from Nieman Lab, and follow the tweets on hashtags #knc09, #fncm09, #kncmit (all of them are aggregated in this CoverItLive that Greg Linch posted on his personal site.

Knight News Challenge 2009 Winners

KF President and CEO Alberto Ibarügen relates music to journalism

June 17, 2009, 9:17 a.m., Posted by Knight Foundation – 0 Comments

On Wednesday June 10, Knight Foundation President and CEO Alberto Ibarügen gave a keynote speech at the League of American Orchestras National Conference held in Orchestra Hall, Chicago.'

The audience was encouraged to adapt music performance so that indeed the art form does not die, but instead persists in a digital medium enhanced by greater communal accessibility. Find his speech here.

 

Keyword Searches Find Local News Coverage in Decline

June 12, 2009, 4:44 p.m., Posted by Knight Foundation – 0 Comments

New News: Journalism We Want and Need (.pdf), a study of local news coverage by Chicago's Community Media Workshop, reports that local news coverage is declining in the city's major news outlets.
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The CMW used local news keywords to search the print editions of the Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Tribune from 1986 to the present. They found that local news keywords decreased after a peak in 1994, except for corruption and bribery.
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The study was commissioned and funded by the Chicago Community Trust, a Knight Foundation grantee. It ranked'Chi-Town Daily News'first among Chicago's news sites, excluding the web sites of large media outlets like the Tribune and the Sun-Times.
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Check out the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy and the Knight Community Information Challenge to learn more about local news sites in your community.