Publications

April 2007

Journalism 2.0: How to Survive and Thrive

This 128-page book is a guide to jumpstart digital media skills for newsrooms and classrooms. Learn how to use RSS feeds, transfer files with FTP, store data on spreadsheets, create and maintain a blog, report news for the Web, shoot and edit photos and video and record audio.

March 2007

News, Improved

A new national Knight survey finds that while demand for training is overwhelming as midcareer journalists and news executives face the digital revolution, the news industry response is fractured. A follow-up to our seminal study five years ago, the survey shows training is failing to keep pace with the urgent and significant demands of industry transformation. Read the survey news release PDF here.

January 2006

News in a New America

Good journalists should be able to tackle any assignment, whether it is covering their own community or covering a community with which they have had little or no personal contact. In short, they should be able to give us news that is as American as America. That’s the ideal. The truth is, we all have blind spots.

April 2005

Keeping Secrets

When Sen. Patrick Leahy, the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and a longtime friend of open government, took the stage at the ASNE convention two months ago, his message was anything but encouraging.

January 2005

The Future of the First Amendment

This publication reports on a two-year, $1 million survey of high school students and their knowledge of the First Amendment.

September 2004

Challenging the Myth: A Review of the Links Among College Athletic Success, Student Quality, and Donations

Frank examines the assumption, offered by some college officials, that winning teams will attract more applicants and, in turn, better students.

April 2004

The Media Missionaries

This scoping paper maps the myriad American efforts to develop and support journalism capacity around the globe, with fellowships, exchanges, training, grants, loans, equipment, infrastructure, staff, conferences and other means. This study, commissioned by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, tries to identify where much of the money has been going and what some of the "lessons learned" are after a decade of such work.

April 2003

The American Journalist in the 21st Century Key Findings

The reporters, editors and producers who put out the news every day on TV, radio and print are a more professional group than a decade ago, according to the initial findings of The American Journalist in the 21st Century. Traditional, general news journalists make higher salaries. More have college degrees. They are older, but there are still more men than women. And more who stay in journalism are happy with that choice.

January 2003

Diversity Best Practices

Diversity: Best Practices is divided into four main sections, covering best practices in curriculum development, faculty recruitment and retention, student recruitment and retention, and campus environment. It also covers the history of ACEJMC's standard on diversity. A "Sources and Resources" section contains syllabus excerpts and lists of texts, videotapes and websites that contributors recommended.

October 2002

Newsroom Training: Where's the Investment?

One working journalists in three is dissatisfied with the opportunities for training and professional development now available at work.

November 2001

ASNE High School Journalism Online Hosting

Web pages for publishing your high school newspaper are available from ASNE with support from Knight Foundation. About 150 newspapers are taking advantage of this set of tools.

Students also find tips and resources from media professionals for reporting, graphics and more.

Visit www.highschooljournalism.org to order the CD-ROM kit.

June 2001

A Call to Action: Reconnecting College Sports and Higher Education

In 1989, as a decade of highly visible scandals in college sports drew to a close, the trustees of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation were concerned that athletics abuses threatened the very integrity of higher education. In October of that year, they created a Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics and directed it to propose a reform agenda for college sports.

In announcing this action, James L. Knight, then chairman of the Foundation, emphasized that it did not reflect any hostility toward college athletics. "We have a lot of sports fans on our board, and we recognize that intercollegiate athletics have a legitimate and proper role to play in college and university life," he said. "Our interest is not to abolish that role but to preserve it by putting it back in perspective. We hope this Commission can strengthen the hands of those who want to curb the abuses which are shaking public confidence in the integrity of not just big-time collegiate athletics but the whole institution of higher education."

October 1993

A New Beginning for a New Century

In light of recent events in intercollegiate athletics, it seems particularly timely to offer this Internet version of the combined reports of the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics. Together with an Introduction, the combined reports detail the work and recommendations of a blue-ribbon panel convened in 1989 to recommend reforms in the governance of intercollegiate athletics.

March 1992

A Solid Start

In light of recent events in intercollegiate athletics, it seems particularly timely to offer this Internet version of the combined reports of the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics. Together with an Introduction, the combined reports detail the work and recommendations of a blue-ribbon panel convened in 1989 to recommend reforms in the governance of intercollegiate athletics.

October 1991

Keeping the Faith with the Student Athlete

In light of recent events in intercollegiate athletics, it seems particularly timely to offer this Internet version of the combined reports of the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics. Together with an Introduction, the combined reports detail the work and recommendations of a blue-ribbon panel convened in 1989 to recommend reforms in the governance of intercollegiate athletics.