http://knightfdn.dotmarketing.net/news/press_room/knight_in_the_news/ John S. and James L. Knight Foundation News Releases http://www.knightfoundation.org/permalink/337044/225368 Eleven organizations raise $952,680 in contributions to meet funders' challenge; Fifteen journalism groups offered challenge grants to increase fund raising capacity over the next year. Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:35:00 EDT 337044 http://www.knightfoundation.org/permalink/336744/225368 The National Fund for Workforce Solutions has chosen Wichita to receive a $450,000 grant in order to connect low-income, low-skilled workers with career opportunities in the local aviation industry. The funds will benefit a collaborative of area funders that seeks to strengthen and expand workforce development. Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:00:00 EDT 336744 http://www.knightfoundation.org/permalink/336732/225368 Leon County School students this year will benefit from a newly-developed civics curriculum designed to be replicated state-wide, thanks to support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. With Florida students lagging in civics and U.S. history, the pilot project will provide students with the skills they need to make decisions about and participate fully in their communities. Leon County, the seat of state government, will provide an ideal backdrop for the project. Tue, 30 Sep 2008 07:15:00 EDT 336732 http://www.knightfoundation.org/permalink/336709/225368 City Year, a national youth service organization, celebrated its 20th anniversary today with the launch of City Year Miami. At a spirited Opening Day ceremony at The Miami Beach Colony Theater, 80 dedicated young adults pledged to serve the children and families of local children and schools as the 2008-2009 City Year Miami corps. Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:00:00 EDT 336709 http://www.knightfoundation.org/permalink/336244/225368 Washington, D.C. &mdash; Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, unveiled today the World Wide Web Foundation to fulfill a vision of the Web as humanity connected by technology. The mission of the foundation is: to advance One Web that is free and open; to expand the Web's capability and robustness; and to extend the Web's benefits to all people on the planet. Sun, 14 Sep 2008 16:00:00 EDT 336244 http://www.knightfoundation.org/permalink/336093/225368 Wired.com’s WikiScanner coverage, which helped readers investigate and expose ego-editing and corporate whitewashing of Wikipedia entries, is this year’s $10,000 Grand Prize winner in the Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism. Wired.com invited readers to use new technology to get all IP addresses assigned to a particular company, organization or government department, then track the anonymous edits made from those addresses anywhere in Wikipedia. Their reports, on the site’s “Threat Level” blog, “insert an air of accountability to those who edit Wikipedia to fit their own agendas,” the judges said. Wed, 10 Sep 2008 06:00:00 EDT 336093 http://www.knightfoundation.org/permalink/335831/225368 The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has launched the third year of the Knight News Challenge, a contest awarding as much as $5 million for innovative ideas using digital experiments to transform community news and information exchange. The deadline for applications is Nov. 1, 2008. Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:00:00 EDT 335831 http://www.knightfoundation.org/permalink/335489/225368 WASHINGTON, DC (August 25, 2008) - The National Trust Loan Fund (NTLF) today announced the creation of a $5 million loan pool to help develop affordable housing in cities across the country. The National Trust for Historic Preservation promotes community development in older and historic neighborhoods. Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:00:00 EDT 335489 http://www.knightfoundation.org/permalink/335140/225368 The Silicon Valley Education Foundation (SVEF) today officially launched its $3 million campaign to boost student achievement in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, known as the Silicon Valley STEM Initiative. The launch was announced at tech firm Flextronics in Milpitas, one of the Initiative’s key supporters. SVEF has already received a $1.7 million grant from the Knight Foundation toward the $3 million goal, and is working with Silicon Valley companies, educators, and civic leaders to improve STEM learning in Valley classrooms. Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:00:00 EDT 335140 http://www.knightfoundation.org/permalink/334761/225368 Fifty coaches are standing by online to help innovative thinkers apply for the Knight News Challenge, a $5 million-a-year contest to move journalism into the 21st Century. The coaches &mdash; made up of past jurors and winners &mdash; will give News Challenge hopefuls a better chance of winning up to $5 million in prizes annually Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:30:00 EDT 334761 http://www.knightfoundation.org/permalink/334702/225368 J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism has moved to American University’s School of Communication, where it will expand its operations with the help of a $2.4 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to American University Wed, 06 Aug 2008 07:00:00 EDT 334702 http://www.knightfoundation.org/permalink/334098/225368 igh school students who blog, who read online news sources and who chat online regularly are more likely to understand and support their First Amendment rights, according to a new book based on the largest survey conducted on the subject. Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:00:00 EDT 334098 http://www.knightfoundation.org/permalink/334072/225368 The Annual Aspen Institute Forum on Communications and Society will be held in conjunction with the second meeting of the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:00:00 EDT 334072 http://www.knightfoundation.org/permalink/333472/225368 The Central Carolina Community Foundation (CCCF), a nonprofit corporation that empowers donors to make effective charitable giving decisions by linking them to different areas of community need, announces its donation of $500,000 to the Midlands Housing Alliance to fund the Homeless Transition Center that is planned for the current Salvation Army site in downtown Columbia. Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:55:00 EDT 333472 http://www.knightfoundation.org/permalink/332223/225368 The Poynter Institute announced today that it will use a $1.4 million, five-year grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to help transform journalism education by expanding the world&rsquo;s most successful and innovative journalism e-learning site. Launched in 2005 with a prior Knight Foundation grant, NewsU provides interactive, inexpensive courses to journalists at all levels of experience and in all types of media. Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:30:00 EDT 332223 http://www.knightfoundation.org/permalink/332167/225368 Seeking to change the way journalism is taught in the United States, Carnegie Corporation of New York and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation are investing more than $11 million in the expansion of a national initiative to adapt journalism education to the challenges of a struggling news industry. Three new journalism schools are joining the effort of redefining journalism education and training a new generation of journalists capable of reshaping the news industry. Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:30:00 EDT 332167 http://www.knightfoundation.org/permalink/331468/225368 Community and business leaders gathered today for a ceremony that announced the official naming of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Nonprofit Center. Named in recognition of the organization’s generous contribution to the purchase of the facility, the building on Seaway Road is jointly owned by United Way of South Mississippi, Coast Chamber of Commerce, Gulf Coast Community Foundation and the Gulf Coast Business Council. Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:00:00 EDT 331468 http://www.knightfoundation.org/permalink/331205/225368 Columbia, S.C.'s bold step to end homelessness by launching a comprehensive housing and services program has received a major jump-start with a $5 million challenge grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:30:00 EDT 331205 http://www.knightfoundation.org/permalink/331140/225368 A $1.85 million grant by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation will help Opportunity Fund launch Saving for Citizenship—a new program that will help 500 low-income legal immigrants in Silicon Valley save money to apply for naturalization and become US citizens. Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:00:00 EDT 331140 http://www.knightfoundation.org/permalink/331122/225368 A $24 million initiative by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation will engage community foundations in a grant-making challenge to find creative uses of media and technology to help keep communities informed and their citizens engaged. Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:05:00 EDT 331122 http://www.knightfoundation.org/permalink/331124/225368 Knight Foundation has launched a five-year, $24 million initiative aimed at encouraging community foundations to embrace information as a core community need. It challenges community foundations to grasp the depth and pace of the change the media world is undergoing, and to take account of how this affects a community’s ability to manage their affairs and address opportunities. Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:00:00 EDT 331124 http://www.knightfoundation.org/permalink/330665/225368 Fifteen cross-sector leaders from diverse backgrounds have accepted invitations to serve on the newly formed <i>Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy.</i> Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:40:00 EDT 330665 http://www.knightfoundation.org/permalink/330626/225368 The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and American Leadership Forum-Silicon Valley (ALF) today announced a partnership to create a Common Good Collaborative in Silicon Valley. Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:00:00 EDT 330626 http://www.knightfoundation.org/permalink/330912/225368 The text below is an edited version of a speech by Knight Foundation president Alberto Ibargüen delivered to a group of journalism educators, business, non-profit and media leaders at the Boston Foundation on Thursday, June 10, 2008. Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT 330912 http://www.knightfoundation.org/permalink/330504/225368 Eric Newton, Knight Foundation’s Journalism Program vice president, received the 2008 Dewitt Carter Reddick Award from the University of Texas at Austin for “outstanding professional achievement in the field of communication.” This is the text of “The Future of News” -- remarks presented April 12 by Newton at the College of Communication Honors Convocation. Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:10:00 EDT 330504 http://www.knightfoundation.org/permalink/330359/225368 The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation today announced the finalists in an experimental arts contest designed to help transform the South Florida Community. Fri, 06 Jun 2008 06:00:00 EDT 330359 http://www.knightfoundation.org/permalink/330281/225368 Twelve U.S. journalists have been awarded John S. Knight Fellowships to study at Stanford during the 2008-09 academic year. During their stay at Stanford, the Knight Fellows will pursue independent courses of study and participate in special seminars. The 2008-09 program marks the 43rd year that Stanford has offered fellowships for professional journalists. Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:40:00 EDT 330281 http://www.knightfoundation.org/permalink/330343/225368 An alliance of local partners today announced a new effort to strengthen the local economy and transform downtown Bradenton and Manatee County into an exciting cultural destination. Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:05:00 EDT 330343 http://www.knightfoundation.org/permalink/330287/225368 The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) announced that Belarus editor and free-press champion Aliaksei Karol and Ugandan human rights reporter Frank Nyakairu are the winners of the 2008 Knight International Journalism Award. They will be honored along with Founders Award recipient John F. Burns of The New York Times at the annual ICFJ Awards Dinner at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center in Washington, DC, on November 12. Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:50:00 EDT 330287 http://www.knightfoundation.org/permalink/329540/225368 CNN.com today accepted the Knight News Innovation EPpy for its interactive, international, engaging and effective web site. The award, announced as part of the EPpy Awards ceremony at the Interactive Media Conference & Tradeshow, is sponsored by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation Thu, 15 May 2008 14:25:00 EDT 329540