Knight Foundation

Informed & Engaged Communities

@KnightFdn news for 10/05/2011

Hello, welcome to @KnightFdn, Knight Foundation's new way of bringing you brief updates about our efforts to foster informed & engaged communities.
  - More than 2,000 stories of black male leadership submitted as part of the @BMEchallenge campaign in  #Detroit and #Philadelphia
 - News21 #journalism students launch major food safety investigation in @washingtonpost and @msnbc, uncovering dangers of seafood and prominence of foodborne illness
- Philadelphia commuters surprised by singers belting Carmen, during a Random Act of Culture on board local trains #arts #video
  - Following @FCC report, new projects will focus on ways public policy can improve local #news and #information flows
-Students teach digital and media literacy to the greater #Charlotte community, part of James L. Knight School of Communication #journalism
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