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What We Fund
Training and Education
We aim to speed the news community’s digital transformation by working with both current and future journalists.
News and Newsroom Diversity
We help newsrooms and citizens use emerging technologies to better cover and engage their entire community.
Digital Media and News in the Public Interest
We intend to advance the best values of journalism through rapidly developing digital media.
Press Freedom and Freedom of Information
We work to advance journalism excellence, free expression and freedom of information worldwide through high-impact projects.
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.
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.
read more on $content.programNameSunshine Week: Know what your government is doing
Sunshine Week is a national campaign to raise public awareness and support for open government issues.
read more on $content.programNameNews 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.
read more on $content.programNameStories of Transformation
Bruno Giussani.
Citizen Media Observer Says: Don’t Speak. Point!
What does the future of news look like? Citizen media expert Bruno Giussani examines the changing, crowded, chaotic new media world and offers some advice on how to thrive.
More Stories of Transformation
- Campaign Heightens Awareness of the Danger Latin Journalists Face
- News Challenge Winners Innovate with Digital Media
- Citizen Journalists Find Their Voices
- A Hot Journalism Trend: The Growth of Ethnic Media
- Educating the 21st Century's Leaders and Readers
- Citizen Media Observer Says: Don’t Speak. Point!
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.
- Wednesday, May 7, 2008
- Foundation Support Grows to Build Workforce Skills and Prosperity for Low-wage Earners
- Tuesday, April 29, 2008
- Kristen Taylor Joins Knight Foundation
As Online Community Manager - Friday, April 18, 2008
- Knight Foundation backs WNYC and PRI's The Takeaway with John Hockenberry and Adaora Udoji
- Monday, April 14, 2008
- Knight Journalism Advisor Geneva Overholser to Chair USC J-School
- Friday, February 15, 2008
- 'Mr Media' Interviews Alberto Ibargüen: Trends in Philanthropy, Media
- Tuesday, February 5, 2008
- At United Nations, CNN's Amanpour Talks On Impunity Campaign
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