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Knight Foundation's signature work is its Journalism Program. Since 1950, the foundation has invested nearly $400 million with 1,000 partners to advance quality journalism and freedom of expression worldwide. Today, the program focuses on leading journalism excellence into the digital age. We define journalism excellence as the fair, accurate, contextual pursuit of truth.
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What We Fund

News and Newsroom Diversity
We help newsrooms and citizens use emerging technologies to better cover and engage their entire community.


Press Freedom and Freedom of Information
We work to advance journalism excellence, free expression and freedom of information worldwide through high-impact projects.


Digital Media and News in the Public Interest
We intend to advance the best values of journalism through rapidly developing digital media.


Training and Education
We aim to speed the news community’s digital transformation by working with both current and future journalists. See Midcareer Training Programs | Knight Chairs in Journalism


Journalism Initiatives

High school journalism trains the next generation

Highschooljournalism
.org, a scholastic journalism web site, increases student media in all its forms and improves First Amendment awareness among U.S. students.

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Sunshine Week: Know what your government is doing

Sunshine Week is a national campaign to raise public awareness and support for open government issues.

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Knight News Challenge: You invent it. We fund it!

Got big ideas? This contest offers $25 million in awards for new ideas that use digital innovation to transform community news.

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News 21 prepares students for a changing news industry

Top students at leading journalism schools work in teams to report large, complex stories using the latest digital techniques.

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Knight Chairs in Journalism

Knight Foundation has established two dozen endowed chairs in journalism at top universities nationwide. The chairs are leading journalists who take positions as tenured professors within academia. They practice journalism, teach innovative classes, and create experimental projects and new programs that help lead journalism excellence in the digital age.
See a list of the 24 Chairs.

Knight's Media Innovation Initiatives

A strategy of experimentation is at the core of these initiatives. Read more.

Research and Publications

Journalism 2.0: How to Survive and Thrive: J-Lab's guide to jump-starting digital media skills for newsrooms and classrooms.

News, Improved: Tomorrow's Workforce shows how training can move newsrooms into the 21st centurty. A follow-up to Knight Foundation's study Newsroom Training: Where's the Investment?.

News in a New America: Good journalists should be able to give us news that is as American as America. This book explains how you can find and deal with your blind spots.

The Future of the First Amendment: Learn why high school students think it's wrong to censor lyrics but ok to censor the press.

The Media Missionaries: How American efforts to develop and support journalism around the globe have met with mixed results.

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Journalism News Releases

Thursday, June 25, 2009
Printcasting Expands to More U.S. Cities Through Partnerships
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
New International Media Institute to Launch in India
Monday, June 22, 2009
$5 Million to Help Revitalize Macon's College Hill Corridor

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Journalism Content on KnightBlog

Journalism on track for 2020? (Yesterday at 4:06 PM)
The World Association of Newspapers continues to have a fairly clear crystal ball that doesn’t get enough attention when it comes to the future of news. Look at how well its experts are faring on their predictions of what the newspaper would look like in 2020 (.pdf), specifically Gerd Finkbeiner’s prediction of a newspaper looking like a [...] (Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:06:47 +0000)More...
How to Lead an Online Newsroom (Yesterday at 8:57 PM)
NewsU has launched a new course called Leading an Online Newsroom: What You Need to Know. The course is taught by Susan Karol, executive director of the Suburban Newspapers of America Foundation, and funded by Knight Foundation. The course consists of five “classes”, each with tips and commentary from editors on best practices for online newsrooms. [...] (Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:57:12 +0000)More...
Nonprofit Journalism Organizations Form Investigative News Network (Yesterday at 7:20 PM)
Brant Houston holds the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Chair in Investigative and Enterprise Reporting at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Journalists from 25 nonprofit journalism organizations formed the first-ever investigative news network at a three-day gathering at the Pocantico Conference Center this week. Pledging collaboration on both editorial efforts and business operations, [...] (Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:20:14 +0000)More...
News Business Models (Yesterday at 6:29 PM)
Jose Zamora is a journalism program associate at Knight Foundation Report from the National Association of Hispanic Journalists Convention, where my panel discussed business models… The most popular new models were niche advertisements, paid content, public contributions and foundation support. The panel was moderated by Frances Robles, foreign correspondent for The Miami Herald. Among the panelists were [...] (Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:29:36 +0000)More...
Journalism Fellowships in Non-Tradtional Media (Wednesday at 12:07 PM)
Reflecting what’s going on in the news community, journalism fellowship winners this year show increasing levels of entrepreneurship and innovation.   James Bettinger, director of the John S. Knight Fellowship program at Stanford, told The New York Times the number of fellowship applicants from daily newspapers last year was lower than ever before.   Check out MIT’s twelve Knight [...] (Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:07:48 +0000)More...
Evolve. Embrace. Reinvent. (Tuesday at 7:06 PM)
Jose Zamora is a Journalism Program Associate at Knight Foundation Ford and Knight Foundation partnered to support the participation of 76 journalists and students at The National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) convention. Recognizing that the media landscape is in flux, the theme of the 27th annual NAHJ conference was: “Evolve.  Embrace. Reinvent.” And the focus [...] (Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:06:04 +0000)More...
Notes from Knight’s Boot Camp for News Entrepreneurs (Monday at 1:06 PM)
Julia Scott, who left her job at the Los Angeles Daily News to start BargainBabe.com, recommends being obsessed with your new business as a key to being a good news entrepreneur. That, and paying attention to social media as well as your advertisers. Scott was a Fellow for the News Entrepreneur Boot Camp, the Knight Digital [...] (Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:06:51 +0000)More...
Printcasting goes National (Friday at 6:39 PM)
Dan Pacheco explains how the new Printcasting model will be tested in dozens of newspapers across the country. Printcasting lets people become their own publishers by creating a way to package stories and generate advertising revenue. Anyone can create a “printcast” about their interests or community. Printcasting will be beta tested with the MediaNews Group, which owns [...] (Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:39:40 +0000)More...
Will everyone use the new digital tools? (Thu., June 25, 11:50 PM)
At several of the BarCamp sessions at the Future of Civic Media conference Knight held with M.I.T., attendees spoke about using mobile technology and video and audio communication to bridge the digital divide. The Web was thought to be the great leveler, but how about for people who don’t have a computer, or can’t read web [...] (Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:50:57 +0000)More...
Knight News Challenge Winners Discuss Future of News and Civic Media at M.I.T. (Thu., June 25, 3:33 PM)
On Wednesday morning, former Knight News Challenge winners like David Ardia and Lisa Williams gave their advice for web sites and non-profits at “Knight 101″ Wednesday evening brought a plenary called “Nerds, News, and Nabes” with Knight Foundation President and CEO Alberto Ibarguen, Henry Jenkins, principal investigator for M.I.T.’s Center for Future Civic Media (C4FCM), and [...] (Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:33:20 +0000)More...
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