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MEDIA INNOVATION INITIATIVES
Knight News Challenge: Contest in which media innovators compete with digital ideas.
National Media Policy: A high-level commis-
sion explores society’s information needs.
Digital Access for All: Pro-bono consultants help communities create universal access.
Local Information Experiments: Community foundations join Knight in a matching challenge.
Carnegie-Knight Initiative: Seeks to transform journalism education in the U.S.
World Wide Web Foundation: Envisions the Web as humanity connected by technology.
A strategy of experimentation is at the core of these initiatives. Read more.

Now at Knight


Wichita teens work together at the local Boys & Girls Club.

Knight Helps Wichita Train
Its Aviation Workforce
For the 21st Century

A major hub for the aviation industry, Wichita faces a shortage of skilled workers. To help, Knight Foundation is investing nearly $4 million to better prepare the region's workforce. The effort includes expanding pre-engineering courses in schools and providing enrichment programs at the Boys and Girls Club of South Central Kansas. Now the National Fund for Workforce Solutions is stepping in, with a grant to a Knight-led initiative. Read more.  
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Monday, October 6, 2008
Four Foundations Collaborate to Provide Resources for Journalism Organizations to Innovate
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Initiative Offers Low-Skilled workers New Chances For Careers in Wichita's Aviation Industry
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Leon County Students To Get Expanded Civics Lessons

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Knight in the News
Fast Company
Oct. 6
Knight News Challenge Among 'Cool Projects That Can Change the World'
The Miami Herald
Oct. 5
Quigley Builds New Chamber Orchestra in Miami
The Miami Herald
Oct. 5
City Year in Miami: Role Models Help Young Students

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Progress Report 2007-08



Managing Change Through Experimentation, Innovation

With an essay and four video stories, our new progress report describes our continuing transformation into a 21st-century organization. Three years ago we introduced the concept of transformation. We continue to refine the concept, welcoming experimentation and innovation as a way to manage change. Read it online now.

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Knight Blog
Who will fund Investigative Journalism? (Yesterday at 9:02 PM)
Investigative journalism helps democratic societies work transparently. When investigations work, they unveil corruption and other obstacles that may hinder the development of a community. But investigative journalism is expensive, and as organizations face difficulties in their business models, it’s becoming more difficult to fund. Investigative Journalism was the topic of [...] (Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:02:50 +0000)More...
ReportingOn Public Beta Launches (Yesterday at 1:31 PM)
One of the Knight News Challenge projects (the $5 million yearly contest to fund innovative digital news delivery ideas), ReportingOn, has launched in public beta. ReportingOn’s Ryan Sholin describes the service: ReportingOn.com will be a simple way for journalists to update their peers on the stories they're working on right now. Tag your 140-character-or-less [...] (Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:31:53 +0000)More...
News Challenge Meetup in D.C.; Next, Vancouver and Seattle (Thursday at 1:18 PM)
On Tuesday night, Netsquared DC chairs Matt Stempeck (pictured below, far right) and Gabriela Schneider rallied over forty people to a News Challenge (the $5 million yearly contest on innovative digital news delivery ideas) meetup at Google’s D.C. headquarters. Local developers and interested community organizers asked thoughtful questions about the News Challenge contest and [...] (Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:18:36 +0000)More...
Video From the Knight Journalism Advisory Committee Meeting 9.29.08 (Tue., September 30, 11:00 AM)
Yesterday, the Knight Foundation Journalism Advisory Committee (JAC) and guests met at the Newseum. Video from the meeting is below; the full Flickr (a photo-sharing service) set of images and video is here. Follow the conversational threads about broccoli, business models, and content markets with JAC members Marty Baron, Dianne Lynch, Rosental Alves, Michael Maness, [...] (Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:00:15 +0000)More...
Knight News Challenge: Chicago meetup (Sat., September 27, 9:11 PM)
Last night was the fourth of the Knight News Challenge North American meetups, this one in Chicago, hosted by Columbia College’s Barbara Iverson. (If you didn’t know, the Knight News Challenge is in the third year of a program that gives away $5MM a year to digital innovations.) With about 30 curious innovators attending last night, [...] (Sat, 27 Sep 2008 21:11:32 +0000)More...
Communications Network Conference 2008 Begins in Chicago (Thu., September 25, 1:19 PM)
The 2008 Communications Network Conference, a group of philanthropy professionals who work in communications, began last night in Chicago. Chair of the Network, Larry Meyer (pictured below at left) and Senior Communication Officer and Secretary at Knight Foundation, introduced Ira Glass, who explained how his wildly successful NPR (and Showtime) show This American Life uses [...] (Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:19:24 +0000)More...
Former Knight Journalism Advisory Committee Member Nancy Hicks Maynard Dies (Tue., September 23, 1:40 PM)
Editor’s note: Senior Communications Officer and Secretary Larry Meyer details how Nancy Hicks Maynard was related to Knight Foundation’s Journalism program and the Maynard Institute. Nancy Hicks Maynard - a significant pioneer in journalism - was a long-time member of Knight Foundation's Journalism Advisory Committee. Along with John Dotson Jr. - quoted in the San Francisco [...] (Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:40:18 +0000)More...
NEW: Progress Report 2007-08: "Experimentation Leads to Transformation" — Click here.
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