Diversify, diversify, diversify is the motto as local news publishers come up with creative business ideas to reach sustainability There was a time not that long ago when local news was supported by a few simple revenue streams: advertising, subscriptions and memberships. As legacy local media organizations struggle to maintain those revenue lines, the upstart […]
As the local news marketplace transforms, these new ways of doing business could take hold next year and beyond Predictions are a tricky business, but there is one sure thing for 2020: local news publishers cannot depend on the old ways of doing business. The time for chain newspapers wielding a monopoly in communities is […]
Knight Foundation asked four leading scholars and community leaders to consider this question: “What is the most important trend that will transform how Americans think about community over the next decade?” Ali Noorani, Executive Director, the National Immigration Forum, shares insights below. Click here to download and view all essays. Unprecedented global migration, how it […]
Nikole Hannah-Jones is an investigative journalist and a co-founder of the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting. Today, Knight Foundation is announcing $150,000 in new support for the society to increase diversity in the ranks of investigative reporters. A few years ago, I was sitting in the lobby at a computer-assisted reporting conference with three other […]
The penultimate chapter of the Mainly Mozart Festival 2016–leading up to the multimedia grand finale, “Timeless Rose,” scheduled for Friday, July 1, at Knight Concert Hall–was a noble, delightful example of how things should be done. Subtly innovative in concept and focus, without any pretentions except making good music (which is enough), and definitely refreshing on […]
Above: An overflow audience listens to venture capital discussion at eMerge Americas. Photo by R. Adams. The opening day of eMerge Americas 2016, the tech conference and expo taking place at the Miami Beach Convention Center Monday and Tuesday, offered impressive numbers, inspiring talk and serious business. Not bad for an event only in its […]
Photos courtesy Reading Terminal Market. Ann Mintz is the manager of development and special projects for Philadelphia’s Reading Terminal Market, a winner of Knight Arts Challenge Philadelphia to curate a performing arts series at the popular shopping venue. A white-haired woman watches a group of salsa dancers, moving to the music. One of the dancers […]
Photo: Soprano Christine Goerke, right, with Megan Barrera, taught a master class in July for the Miami Summer Music Festival. Photo by Synthia Steinman/Courtesy Miami Summer Music Festival A hurricane swept through Miami, but instead of leaving destruction and desolation in its wake, it left an unprecedented number of happy, hopeful faces. The hurricane had a […]
eMerge 2015 (above). Photo by Michael Bolden. eMerge Americas 2015 presented technology and business with a Miami flair last week. There was serious business transacted from Downtown Miami to the Miami Beach Convention Center May 1-5. There were discussions about eGovernment, including data security and governance in a new technological environment; the Women, Innovation and […]
David Blaszkiewicz, president and CEO, Invest Detroit; Katy Locker, program director/Detroit, Knight Foundation; and Rodrick T. Miller president and CEO, Detroit Economic Growth Corp., present awards to winning contestants. Photos courtesy Detroit Economic Growth Corp. Ruth Bell was so nervous about pitching Chugga’s, her wholesale bread-baking company, she had to be shoved into the room […]
I entered curious and vaguely intrigued, but reserved about going in. On an uncharacteristically chilly Miami night, I invited my husband to watch “Now Now Oh Now,” an interactive theater experience from Rude Mechs, an Austin-based theater ensemble made up by Robert S. Fisher, Thomas Graves, Hannah Kenah, Lana Lesley, E. Jason Liebrecht and Shawn […]
By Elizabeth Shannon, Bass Museum of Art According to Marcel Duchamp, “all artists are not chess players — all chess players are artists.” Visitors to Collins Park can now put this assertion to the test by playing chess on Miami-based artist Jim Drain’s newest work, Chess Tables (2014), located just off 22nd Street, opposite the […]
Spending a ton of time in the studio? Ever wish your artwork could just make itself? Whether or not any of this applies, Little Berlin has a surprise for you this month with its show “Heavily Scripted: Generative Art And Bots” curated by Lee Tusman. Although the artworks here are not exactly self-made, they represent […]
Photo: A DJ provides tunes for the opening night of Akron Film+Pixel at Nightlight Cinema. Photos by Rob Vaughn. By Roger Durbin For years, Akron Film+Pixel showed cutting-edge films in pop-up events around the city – 20 a year on average – filling a void in the one of the largest communities in the country […]
Photo: A DJ provides tunes for the opening night of Akron Film+Pixel at Nightlight Cinema. Photos by Rob Vaughn. For years, Akron Film+Pixel showed cutting-edge films in pop-up events around the city – 20 a year on average – filling a void in the one of the largest communities in the country without an indie […]