Radio and Television News Directors Foundation

To increase student broadcast media and improve First Amendment awareness among high school students

Rising voices

To extend the successful Global Voices project to people from additional communities worldwide

The Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association

To move the Online NewsHour onto a more widely accessible, interactive, multi-platform web site that appeals to younger audiences

The MIami Foundation

To strengthen the leadership ranks of the Miami region by responding to a challenge that will build an endowment for the acclaimed Miami Fellows Initiative

VillageSoup

To create an open-source version of VillageSoup’s successful community news software, combining professional journalism, blogs, citizen journalism, online advertising and “reverse publishing” from online to print. Goals: “Turning independent weekly newspaper companies and entrepreneurs into an imposing, lively, worldwide creative energy that is competitive with media company chains.”

Yale University: Knight Law and Media Scholars

To train the next generation's leading legal journalists and media lawyers by creating the Knight Law and Media Scholars

City University of New York

To enable low-income journalism students to get work experience comparable to others through this internship. This internship is an integral part of the curriculum of the new journalism program

Knight Concert Hall: Miami Performing Arts Center

To tell the story of the Knight brothers, their connection to Miami, and why their name is borne by the Knight Concert Hall, through commissioning a bronze bas relief plaque that will be placed at the hall

University of Miami MFA Program

To create a blueprint for a possible Masters in Fine Arts program

Human Services Coalition of Dade County

To encourage civic engagement in Miami by publishing a bilingual book of Daniel Shoer Roth's columns for use in the Human Services Coalition's Stories of Truth and Hope project

IC Foundation, Inc.

To help 21st Century News Challenge Commercial Product winners present their products to venture capitalists and entrepreneurs

International Center for Journalists

To start a global business journalism program at Tsinghua University in China