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Creative Destruction
This report examines trends in Internet-based news traffic for the purpose of peering into the future of news in America. In light of the continuing migration of Americans to online news, the evolving nature of Web technology, and the limits of our survey of websites, our assessments are necessarily speculative.
Young People and News
Based on a national survey of 1800 randomly sampled teens, young adults, and older adults, this report examines the amount of daily news consumed by young people. The evidence shows that young Americans are estranged from the daily newspaper and rely more heavily on television than on the Internet for their news. A few decades ago, there were not large differences in the news habits and daily information levels of younger and older Americans.
Today, unlike most older Americans, many young people find a bit of news here and there and do not make it a routine part of their day.
An Imperative to Innovate
Serious efforts at media development have been underway since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and in some cases even earlier. USAID, for example, opened its first radio station in Liberia in 1985. Despite these long-running efforts, today there is still a great need for media development assistance. Efforts at democratization will fail unless bolstered by strong, independent media. Although conditions are difficult, there are many opportunities for moving forward.
The Knight Open Government Survey
Ten years after Congress enacted the Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments (E-FOIA), only one in five federal agencies actually complies with the law, according to a new survey released today during Sunshine Week by the National Security Archive.The Internet and the Threat it Poses to Local Media
This survey by the Carnegie-Knight Task Force at Harvard University shows a strong movement in America’s classrooms toward the use of Internet-based news and away from the use of newspapers and television news, a trend that is virtually certain to continue.Mandatory Testing and News in the Schools
The intensive time required to “teach to the test” -- to prepare students for mandatory testing in the nation’s public schools -- is stealing time away from students to discuss and study the news, and ultimately become educated about and engaged in their country and their world, according to a report by the Carnegie-Knight Task Force based at Harvard University.Impunity Project Works To Solve Crimes Against Journalists
The Impunity Project was created to end impunity for attacks against journalists in the Americas.Journalism's Crisis of Confidence
Journalism's Crisis of Confidence is based on a recent day-long dialogue involving the five founding deans of the initiative, along with several new journalism schools that have been invited to join in the curriculum enrichment aspect of the project.
This is the second report in the Carnegie-Knight series.
The Business of News
American journalists have a major responsibility: working on democracy’s free press to inform citizens and officials about local, national and world events as well as to provide a measure of public accountability for all institutions and their members.Minority Students in Journalism
This report describes the implementation and results of six university programs, funded by the Knight Foundation, to recruit and retain students from underrepresented minority groups in the field of journalism. It reviews the objectives, background, implementation, and results of continuing programs at Florida A&M University, the University of Florida, the University of Missouri, the University o...- Wednesday, June 24, 2009
- New International Media Institute to Launch in India
- Wednesday, June 17, 2009
- News Experiments to Help Transform Community Life
- Saturday, June 13, 2009
- Knight Foundation Initiative Seeks New Models for Investigative Reporting
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WIRED Blogs
Jun. 18 - NY Times/ProPublica Team Wins $719,000 Knight News Challenge Grant
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Boston.com
Jun. 17 - Knight Foundation honors digital media projects
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MediaShift IdeaLab
Jun. 17 - Winner Alexander Zolotarev: Going to MIT (part I)
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