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Knight Foundation News Release, Dec. 13
LEXINGTON — The ideas for legacy
projects that will live beyond the World Equestrian Games will be implemented
by a new Center for Community Legacy Initiatives, to be housed at the Blue
Grass Community Foundation
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RTNDF News Release, Dec. 12
If you are looking for e-learning opportunities to enhance your leadership skills, turn to Advice for the Newly Named News Director, an interactive online course designed to prepare news directors for the first few months on the job.
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Knight Foundation News Release, Nov. 14
The best defense of press freedom is journalism that improves the lives of citizens. The Knight International Journalism Fellowships program, administered by the International Center for Journalists, does just that. For more than 14 years, the program has helped 30,000 journalists and media managers make a difference around the world.
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Knight Foundation News Release, Nov. 10
Grants Makes Possible the Largest Expansion of Media Clubs in Public Schools
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Knight Foundation News Release, Nov. 7
State’s nonprofit sector smaller than national average but growing
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Knight Foundation News Release, Nov. 7
Foundation Makes Big Commitment
to Boosting Education in Miami
Knight Foundation invests $5.7 million in four education initiatives
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Knight Foundation News Release, Oct. 30
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation announced today that Mike Maidenberg, Vice President/Communities Program, has decided to retire at the end of 2007. He will consult with Knight Foundation during 2008 on an important new initiative he helped launch: looking at the information needs of communities in a democracy.
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Knight Foundation News Release, Oct. 17
Top New Media Figures Have a Place to Experiment and Look at Changes in Journalism and Community News
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Knight Foundation News Release, Oct. 14
More arrests, prosecutions and convictions of those who kill journalists
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Knight Foundation News Release, Oct. 3
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Knight Foundation News Release, Oct. 4
Knight Foundation launches three online resources from the Frontline Editors Project to better prepare journalists for the pivotal newsroom role.
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Knight Foundation News Release, Sept. 28
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Knight Foundation News Release, Sept. 17
Knight Digital Media Center partners at U.C. Berkeley and USC Join to accelerate NPR’s transformation into a public media company
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Knight Foundation News Release, Sept. 17
Three leading journalists with long experience in business journalism will join the international faculty of China's first Global Business Journalism Program at Beijing's Tsinghua University. Nailene Chou Wiest, a former Knight International Journalism Fellow in China who had worked for Reuters there will serve as co-director..
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Knight Foundation News Release, Sept. 17
Three years after a new federal law took effect requiring schools to
educate all students about the Constitution and the First Amendment, a new
survey shows that a majority of America's students aren’t even aware that
Constitution Day exists.
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Knight Foundation News Release, Sept. 17
Three
years after a groundbreaking survey of high school students showed that nearly
three-fourths of them don’t know how they feel about the First Amendment or
take it for granted, not much has changed.
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Knight Foundation News Release, Sept. 17
1st ACT Silicon Valley, a broad-based leadership collaborative focused on sharpening the region's essential creative edge, will ratchet up efforts to transform San Jose into a dynamic city center with the support of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
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Knight Foundation News Release, Sept. 6
$500,000 "Young Creators Award" to Fund Digital Journalism Projects That Strengthen Community Ties; Boys & Girls Clubs of America to Help Promote Opportunity in 4,000 U.S. Communities
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Knight Foundation News Release, Aug. 27
MinnPost.com — an Internet-based daily providing news and insight
for Twin Cities and Minnesota readers — will launch later this year.
Joel
Kramer, CEO and editor, announced that he has raised $1.1 million in startup
funds for the nonprofit enterprise. Four local families have contributed a
combined $850,000, and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, based in Miami, announced a donation of $250,000.
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Knight Foundation News Release, August 24
The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) has named Egyptian blogger Wael Abbas and Burmese investigative reporter May Thingyan Hein as the 2007 Knight International Journalism Award winners.
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Knight Foundation News Release, August 22, 2007
Bright Smiles Initiative works to improve oral health of low-income and immigrant children
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Knight Foundation News Release, August 8, 2007
Ten creative ways of generating news and information - from tracking how the 2008 presidential candidates are using the Web and how the Web is using them, to in-depth guides to world crisis areas, and virtual guides to news in virtual places - are named the finalists of this year's
Knight-Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism.
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Knight Foundation News Release, August 8, 2007
A partnership of four foundations — The Ford Foundation, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, McCormick Tribune Foundation, and Ethics & Excellence in Journalism Foundation — today announced the results of the Challenge Fund for Journalism (CFJ) III as well as the new CFJ IV grant awards.
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Knight Foundation News Release, August 2
Partnership will enable PBS' NewsHour to reach younger audiences with interactive web features, online forums and expanded educational resources
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Knight Foundation News Release, July 27
David Mills, an experienced Silicon Valley executive
and entrepreneur, has joined the John S. and James L.
Knight Foundation as program director for San Jose and Boulder, where he will be responsible for all area grant
making.
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Knight Foundation News Release, July 24
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has appointed local community leaders to its Tallahassee Community Advisory Committee.
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Knight Foundation News Release, July 23
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has appointed local community leaders to its Bradenton Community Advisory Committee.
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Knight Foundation News Release, July 23
The Knight Chair at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, a professorship created in 1991 by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, is being expanded to embrace the digital age with a new title and an endowment boost of $200,000.
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Knight Foundation News Release, July 20
In an era when local television news programs
are remarkably similar to each other, stations have an opportunity to expand
their audiences by enhancing their viewers’ civic experience and making them
feel smarter, a major new study released today at Northwestern University
concludes.
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Knight Foundation News Release, July 20
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has appointed local community leaders to its Lexington Community Advisory Committee.
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Knight Foundation News Release, July 13
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has appointed eight local community leaders to its Philadelphia Community Advisory Committee.
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Knight Foundation News Release, July 12
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has appointed seven local community leaders to its State College Community Advisory Committee.
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Knight Foundation News Release, July 12
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has appointed six local community leaders to its Myrtle Beach Community Advisory Committee.
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Knight Foundation News Release, July 11, 2007
One Economy Founder to Head Community Development Collaborative
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Knight Foundation News Release, July 11, 2007
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has launched year two of the Knight News Challenge, a contest awarding as much as $5 million for innovative ideas using digital experiments to transform community news.
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Knight Foundation News Release, July 10
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has appointed six local community leaders to its Grand Forks Community Advisory Committee.
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Knight Foundation News Release, July 10
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has appointed six local community leaders to its Wichita Community Advisory Committee.
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Knight Foundation News Release, July 6
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has appointed seven local community leaders to its Gary Community Advisory Committee.
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Knight Foundation News Release, July 5
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has appointed seven local community leaders to its Fort Wayne Community Advisory Committee.
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Knight Foundation News Release, June 26, 2007
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has appointed four local community leaders to its Detroit Community Advisory Committee.
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Knight Foundation News Release, June 26, 2007
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has appointed seven local community leaders to its Charlotte Community Advisory Committee.
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Knight Foundation News Release, June 26, 2007
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has appointed six local community leaders to its Columbia Community Advisory Committee.
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Knight Foundation News Release, June 22
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has appointed seven local community leaders to its Biloxi Community Advisory Committee.
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Knight Foundation News Release, June 22
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has appointed five local community leaders to its Akron Community Advisory Committee.
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Knight Foundation News Release, June 22
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has appointed six local community leaders to its Aberdeen Community Advisory Committee.
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Knight Foundation News Release, June 15
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has appointed six local community leaders to its Macon Community Advisory Committee.
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Knight Foundation News Release, June 15
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has appointed six local community leaders to its Milledgeville Community Advisory Committee.
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Knight Foundation News Release, June 15
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has appointed five local community leaders to its Columbus Community Advisory Committee.
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Knight Foundation News Release, June 5
Meredith Hector has been named program director for the Knight Foundation community of Bradenton, Fla. She will assume the role this month while keeping her current duties as assistant to Mike Maidenberg, the foundation’s vice president/communities program.
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Knight Foundation News Release, May 29
Dade Community Foundation will use $2.8 million from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and $1 million from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to create a fund, making the Miami Fellows Initiative self-sustainable.
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Knight News Release, May 24
American Public Media's Center for Innovation in Journalism today won the first Knight News Innovation EPpy for its Public Insight Journalism model, an innovative system for engaging tens of thousands of people in the news gathering process. The award was announced as part of the EPpy award ceremony at the Interactive Media Conference & Tradeshow and is sponsored by Knight Foundation.
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Knight News Release, May 23
Knight News Challenge first-year winners
were announced at the E&P/Mediaweek
Interactive Media Conference on May 23 — $5 million for MIT Media Lab.
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Knight News Release, May 14
William E. "Brit" Kirwan, Chancellor of the University System of Maryland, presides
over first meeting as co-chairman; Northwestern President Henry Bienen
and NFL Hall of Famer Nick Buoniconti join Commission.
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Knight News Release, May 14
Yale Law School has won a $2.5 million challenge grant from Knight Foundation to create the Knight Law and Media Scholars Program.
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Knight Foundation News Release, May 7
Knight Foundation announced it will invest $2 million into the second phase of the Fund for Our Economic Future, a collaboration of philanthropy in Northeast Ohio working to transform the economy.
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Knight Foundation News Release, April 30
Lorenzo Lebrija, a marketing and business entrepreneur and seasoned executive, has joined Knight Foundation as Miami program director.
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Knight Foundation News Release, April 3
Thirty-one community leaders from the Charlotte region chosen as “creative catalysts” will begin a year-long process of designing an approach for the Charlotte region’s future prosperity.
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Knight Foundation News Release, April 2
The Knight Foundation will announce the first-year winners of the Knight News Challenge on May 23 at the Interactive Media Conference & Tradeshow in Miami, hosted by Editor & Publisher and Mediaweek.
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Knight Foundation News Release, March 29
Damian Thorman, an entrepreneurial professional in law, grant making and public policy, has joined Knight Foundation as national program officer.
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Knight Foundation News Release, March 11
Report released at the start of Sunshine Week includes
requestors'
experiences and details on National, Regional and State responses.
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Knight Foundation News Release, March 5
Dignitaries joined Knight Foundation officials Monday at Rutgers University's Camden campus to break ground for the new John S. and James L. Knight Early Learning Research Academy — an institute designed to transform early childhood education in the nation's poorest city and elsewhere.
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Knight Foundation News Release, March 1
Marc Fest, an Internet entrepreneur and public relations veteran, has joined the staff of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation as director of communications.
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Knight Foundation News Release, Feb. 15
Online survey finds general public, media conference
attendees agree that traditional news outlets could do a better job.
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Knight Foundation News Release, Feb. 13
With support from Merrill Lynch, Knight Foundation and Bloomberg News, the International Center for Journalists and Tsinghua University will establish a unique master's degree and professional training program.
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Knight Foundation News Release, Feb. 9
Knight Center will Help News Cross Borders Worldwide; Two Endowed Chairs Established.
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Knight Foundation News Release, Jan. 25
‘1Voice’ Makes On-Air Debut with Exploration of Personal Freedoms in Fidel Castro’s Cuba.
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Knight Foundation News Release, Jan. 23
National Best-Selling Author Richard Florida Inspires New Approach to Building a Creative Economy.
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Knight Foundation News Release, Jan. 19
Four new grant investments totaling more than $5.4 million from Knight Foundation are helping to build the next Detroit.
The grants address community development and neighborhood revitalization, education and job readiness for the city's workforce, and the city's development of a community wireless strategy.
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Knight Foundation News Release, Jan. 17
Leading
journalists join nationwide effort against unwarranted secrecy;
Will participate
in Sunshine Week programs March 11-17, 2007.
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Knight Foundation News Release, Jan. 10
$3.2 Million to be
Invested in 15 Dynamic Individuals Working on Creative Solutions to Community
Problems.
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Channel One News Release, Jan. 9
‘1Voice’ Campaign helps educators teach and engage the topic of personal freedoms in America’s classrooms.
