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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
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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Highschooljournalism
.org, a scholastic journalism web site, increases student media in all its forms and improves First Amendment awareness among U.S. students.
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.
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.
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A Hot Journalism Trend: The Growth of Ethnic Media
Across America, 25 percent of adults get their news from ethnic media. Are they getting quality journalism?<
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.
- Tuesday, December 30, 2008
- Knight Foundation President Alberto Ibargüen Addresses Economic Outlook
- Monday, December 29, 2008
- Eulogy for Alvah H. Chapman, Jr. by David Lawrence, Jr.
- Monday, December 29, 2008
- Eulogy for Alvah H. Chapman, Jr. by Alberto Ibargüen
- Monday, October 6, 2008
- Knight News Challenge Among 'Cool Projects That Can Change the World'
- Thursday, October 2, 2008
- The Transformation of National Public Radio
- Thursday, October 2, 2008
- The New New Media: Carnegie-Knight's News21 Project
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