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Printcasting Expands to More U.S. Cities Through Partnerships

06/25/2009

New International Media Institute to Launch in India

06/24/2009
Supported by Knight and MacArthur Foundations, the Delhi-based multimedia journalism center will be run by ICFJ and Indian journalists

$5 Million to Help Revitalize Macon's College Hill Corridor

06/22/2009
Knight Foundation Grant to Support Community’s Ideas Through the Knight Neighborhood Challenge, College Hill Alliance

News Experiments to Help Transform Community Life

06/17/2009
With $5.1 million from Knight Foundation

AP to Distribute Content from Nonprofit Journalism Organizations

06/13/2009

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First North Gulfport Land Trust Home Sold

07/01/2009
The national trust last year started a $5 million revolving loan fund to help develop affordable housing. A $1.3 million grant from the Knight Foundation has helped lower interest rates on fund loans. Five-year loans from the fund are available to qualifying private and nonprofit groups rehabilitating buildings for low- to moderate-income families. The Knight grant also funds the Catalyst Grant program for projects such as the North Gulfport house. Paul E. Thorbjornsen, loan fund coordinator for the national trust, said an additional $100,000 or more in grant funds will be provided to support projects in Gulfport and Biloxi, including support for downtown Gulfport revitalization and preservation in Turkey Creek, a neighboring community to North Gulfport.

Group Explores National Investigative Reporting Network

06/30/2009
Alberto Ibarguen, who directs journalism's most important funder, the Knight Foundation, says he's been talking quietly for the last two years with some of ...

How Knight's Stanford Fellows Are Revamping Innovation

06/26/2009
There’s a friendly rivalry among the various university-based fellowship programs for journalists. It goes without saying, obviously, that the finest is the granddaddy of them all: the Nieman Fellowships here at Harvard, founded in 1938. (Along with being the finest and oldest, it is also my alma mater and my employer, so color me biased.) But there are plenty of other worthy programs out there. Most notable are the two other general-interest fellowships, the Knight Fellowships at Stanford (founded 1966) and the Knight-Wallace Fellowships at the University of Michigan (1972). And for journalists interested in a particular beat, there are the Knight-Bagehot Fellowships at Columbia for business journalists (1975), Knight Science Journalism Fellowships at MIT for science writers (1983), and Spencer Fellowships at Columbia for education reporters (2008). While each has its own traditions, areas of focus, and level of prestige, they’re largely similar: a chance to spend a year away from one’s newsroom, taking advantage of the intellectual resources of a great university.

Wichita Study's Focus is Attracting Youth

06/26/2009
Today, Young Professionals of Wichita will kick off its study of local young professionals and how the community should change to attract more of them. The group, an operation of the Wichita Metro of Chamber of Commerce, has hired a consultant to study the issue and bring back recommendations. The $100,000 cost of the study is being funded by local foundations and companies. Next Generation Consulting of Madison, Wis., will start with online surveys of the general public and the business community. In a few months, Next Generation will hold Visioneering-style "dream" sessions, where people are asked to articulate problems and solutions.

Macon Residents Excited About Funding for College Hill Corridor

06/25/2009
Mary Leonard has lived in the InTown Macon neighborhood, near the railroad tracks, for five years. She said she had come to accept that the area near the tracks would always look unattractive and that nothing could be done. But at a meeting Wednesday of the College Hill Corridor Commission, Leonard said she now believes that the means are available to beautify the area as well as other parts of the corridor, thanks to a $5 million grant that the Knight Foundation awarded the commission Monday.

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