John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

This morning, Knight announced more than $5 million in grants to spur new economic foundations for Detroit by boosting the city’s Creative Corridor, increasing job training, and providing digital access to underserved communities. ...

At the beginning of October, the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy made headlines with its report “Informing Communities: Sustaining Democracy in a Digital Age.” Today, the FCC announced it would act on that report by hiring journalist and entrepreneur Ste...

From Marly Falcon, Knight Foundation contributing blogger: The International Women’s Media Foundation, IWMF, selected Firle Davies, a journalist for the British Broadcasting Corporation, as the 2009-2010 recipient of the Knight Foundation-funded Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship. ...

In USA TODAY, Don Campbell writes that media executivesarethe ones responsible for the future of news.”Publishers and news executives face perilous challenges, but they don’t need, nor should they accept, help from government at any level,” he says. ” Th...

From Marly Falcon, Knight Foundation contributing blogger: People are easily lured in by the sweetness, beauty, smell and sometimes even intoxication of certain plants. What if plants have their own hidden agenda that we didn’t know about? ...

Jose Zamora is a Journalism Program Associate at Knight Foundation The first Knight funded Drupal project to release its open-source code, Managing News, launched last week. You can read about it here: Media Innovation with Drupal...

Jose Zamora is a Journalism Program Associate at Knight Foundation Here’sevidence that the Knight News Challenge projects, experiments we hoped will speed media innovation, are having impact: The Transparency Initiative announced this week that AOL and TownNews have adopted the Knight funded m...

Cross-posted from the Knight News Challenge Blog and the Sunlight Labs Blog The reason why we extended the Knight News Challenge deadline is because we want to invite and partner with organizations that share our mission, values and goals, and that have networks of software developers and...

Jose Zamora is a Journalism Program Associate at Knight Foundation Managing News released its open-source code. It is the first out of six Drupal projects funded through the Knight Drupal Initiative to do so...

From Eric Newton, VP/Journalism, Knight Foundation: CPJ’s Global Campaign Against Impunity — the legal impunitytoo often enjoyed bythose who would murder journalists — has produced a bright red infographic detailing the cases of 758 journalists killed since 1992. The ...

From Eric Newton, VP/Journalism, Knight Foundation: What’s cool about News 21 – the investigative reporting project now in its fourth year attop U.S. jo...

If you’ve been following this blog, you probably already know Knight Foundation is giving $3.3 million to libraries in 12 communities to transform them into digital centers for their communities. We often think of libraries as being good places to find books, and they are. ...

From Eric Newton, VP/Journalism Program, Knight Foundation: Much well-deserved buzz over the Reconstruction of American Journalism, a newreport by Leonard Downie, Jr., and Michael Schudson. To its credit, Columbia Journalism Reviewis reporting evencritical reaction...