knight foundation

The challenge grant is designed to help JumpStart America raise an additional $14 million to expand its efforts to twenty additional cities over the next three years....

To be launched in March and operated by the Public Media Exchange, the Public Media Accelerator will provide funding and expertise to entrepreneurs with innovative ideas for strengthening the impact of public media....

The winning ideas include efforts to help newsrooms organize and visualize large data sets finding ways that reveal relationships and stories otherwise not imagined....

Knight Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York Award $3.9 Million to Expand Innovative Journalism Program
The grant will be used to open the News21 digital investigative reporting project to all journalism schools nationwide, promote curriculum changes, and launch News21 spin-off projects at five universities....

The grant renews the foundation's participation in the 55-member funding coalition, which has raised more than $70 million since 2004 for economic development efforts in Northeast Ohio....

Scheduled to open in 2012, the Frank Gehry-designed John S. and James L. Knight Gallery will consist of four stainless steel-clad "pods" connected by a central glass-enclosed gallery....

The grant will be used by the Sunlight Foundation to develop Web and mobile applications that the public can use to access federal government data in areas such as the environment, public health, and consumer spending....

The grant will support the development of programs to teach digital and media literacy to the school's students as well as outreach programs to help spread digital and media literacy in the community at large....

The grants will support local news and information projects in Alabama, Alaska, California, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, and Washington....

The two-year, $400,000 grant will support NECIR in its efforts to test the long-term sustainability of a journalism model that would generate funds through innovative multimedia projects, including student workshops and paid content delivery....