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Knight Foundation's signature work is its Journalism Program. Since 1950, the foundation has invested nearly $400 million with 1,000 partners to advance quality journalism and freedom of expression worldwide. Today, the program focuses on leading journalism excellence into the digital age. We define journalism excellence as the fair, accurate, contextual pursuit of truth.
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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. See Midcareer Training Programs | Knight Chairs in Journalism


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

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.

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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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High school journalism trains the next generation

Highschooljournalism
.org, a scholastic journalism web site, increases student media in all its forms and improves First Amendment awareness among U.S. students.

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Sunshine 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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Knight Chairs in Journalism

Knight Foundation has established two dozen endowed chairs in journalism at top universities nationwide. The chairs are leading journalists who take positions as tenured professors within academia. They practice journalism, teach innovative classes, and create experimental projects and new programs that help lead journalism excellence in the digital age.
See a list of the 24 Chairs.

Knight's Media Innovation Initiatives

A strategy of experimentation is at the core of these initiatives. Read more.

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.

Grantee Progress Report An example of a good status report from a grantee, this one the Teaching Newspaper in partnership with the University of Alabama, can be found here

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Journalism News Releases

Tuesday, March 9, 2010
New Contest Aims to Create Easier Online Access to Government and Community Services
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Strategies to Increase Broadband Adoption & Use Gain Support
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Shorty Award Winners Unveiled In New York City

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Journalism Content on KnightBlog

Knight Foundation will have novelist Chengerai Hove as its guest for the next two years (Yesterday at 7:52 PM)
Zimbabwe novelist Chengerai Hove will be calling Miami home for at least the next two years. As a guest of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Hove will give guest lectures to Miami Dade students, and also interact with the general public by attending a variety of community events. His stay was coordinated [...] (Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:52:48 +0000)More...
SXSW Interactive: Picks for Journalists (Thu., March 4, 7:06 PM)
South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive, the year's most anticipated tech conference, is just around the corner - kicking off on Friday, Mar. 12 in Austin, Texas. Many of today's biggest web and mobile apps were launched during SXSW, including Twitter (2007) and Foursquare (2009). There's a lot of speculation about what this year's big hit [...] (Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:06:31 +0000)More...
Havana-Miami: Documentary project explores cultural connection between two cities (Thu., March 4, 5:21 PM)
Living just 90 miles apart, the lives of a dozen young Cuban women and men, six in Havana and six in Miami, are being chronicled in an online documentary project, Havana-Miami. In an article in the Miami Herald, Ilan Ziv, executive producer of the project, says: The idea behind Havana-Miami is to use human experiences that are [...] (Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:21:46 +0000)More...
Philanthropy New York Discusses Future of Journalism (Wed., March 3, 3:57 PM)
Vince Stehle, Knight Foundation contributing blogger Philanthropy New York recently convened a debate and discussion about the future of journalism and the vital role of news and information in healthy communities. Columbia J School professor Michael Schudson, co-author with Leonard Downie of the The Reconstruction of American Journalism, elaborated on the controversial report’s call for increased government [...] (Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:57:34 +0000)More...
Next to the live video feed: the campaign contributions (Fri., February 26, 7:56 PM)
The Sunlight Foundation demonstrated during the Health Care Reform Summit 2010 that open government data can allow journalists, bloggers and citizens to provide context to a live news event. As officials testified, Sunlight provided a live feed which displayed lifetime campaign contribution data, as well as Twitter and blog commentary all on the same page, which can be [...] (Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:56:19 +0000)More...
J-Lab's director looks at the new "media makers" (Fri., February 26, 7:49 PM)
J-Lab’s Jan Schaeffer gave a speech Wednesday night at USC Annenberg on the role of new media makers.  Here’s a piece of  her comprehensive look at start-ups: Many of these clues suggest that while news consumers certainly need watchdogs, they also need guide dogs as well. While they certainly need news, sometimes all they need is [...] (Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:49:07 +0000)More...
NPR wins big at "Eyes of History" Contest (Fri., February 26, 1:57 PM)
NPR won big at the White House News Photographers Association’s "Eyes of History" contest, which recognizes achievements in photojournalism. With 15 awards, the list of winners is long but can be found here. Congratulations NPR! The video below won first place for the best use of photography and audio (without narration). — Marly Falcon, Knight Foundation contributing blogger (Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:57:00 +0000)More...
Ashoka Fellow Offers Predictions for 2010 (Thu., February 25, 6:46 AM)
Ashoka, a Knight Foundation grantee, asked its fellows to offer predictions for 2010. The fellows were asked the following questions: what changes will 2010 bring, what will you make happen in 2010 and what changes do you hope to see by the end of the coming decade. One fellow, Sanjana Hattotuwa, stood out with his [...] (Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:46:54 +0000)More...
Honoring Local Heroes (Thu., February 25, 6:24 AM)
Sunshine Week is honoring local heroes. Mark Mahoney is one of them. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for his open government coverage and ASNE’s editorial award in 2004. Mahoney is an editorial page editor at the Post Star in Glens Falls, N.Y. His editorials focus on the dangers of government secrecy. Here are a [...] (Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:24:01 +0000)More...
News21: What are the graduates up to? (Fri., February 19, 10:27 PM)
The results are in. News21 has released the alumni report update for its 2009 fellows. Of the 94 fellows that completed the program, 52 (55.3 percent) are working full time. This includes three freelancers/independent journalists who report full-time work. Of the 52 full-time workers, 87 percent report working for media companies or in communications jobs. (Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:27:00 +0000)More...
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