http://www.knightblog.org News about transformational ideas in journalism, communities and philanthropy. Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:40:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last night, thirty-one South Florida art projects were awarded grants in the first year of the Knight Arts Partnership, a $40 million effort to bring South Floridians together through the arts. Winning projects include a two-year residency program for up-and-coming artists, a Little League-like network of children’s choirs, and giant, ... http://www.knightblog.org/knight-arts-partnership-2008/ From our new community site Knight Pulse, a conversation with Stanford Knight Fellows Director Jim Bettinger on the program changes ahead: Do you have a particular journalistic challenge, problem, or issue that you would like to spend a year working through to benefit everyone? For more information and how to apply, ... http://www.knightblog.org/how-the-stanford-knight-fellowships-will-change-in-the-coming-year/ David Sasaki of Rising Voices, a Knight News Challenge 2007 winner, has posted a new video with bloggers Thandanani, Sinempilo, and Zwelithini from the Rising Voices project in Kwa Mashu, the largest of Durban, South Africa's three townships. David writes: Much of the conversation [is] Thandanani explaining why he ... http://www.knightblog.org/world-aids-day-2008/ Soul of the Community (SOTC) is a three-year study conducted by Gallup of the 26 Knight Foundation communities across the United States focusing on the emotional side of the connection between residents and their communities. In its first year, the study compared residents’ engagement level to the GDP growth in the ... http://www.knightblog.org/top-ten-measures-of-community-citizen-engagement/ From today's press release: Leaders of the Washington, DC Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation, Inc., announced today that former President Bill Clinton will receive the Foundation’s “Humanitarian Award” and serve as the keynote speaker at a January 8, 2009 Miami Dream Dinner to raise funds for Memorial ... http://www.knightblog.org/president-bill-clinton-to-headline-miami-dream-dinner-for-martin-luther-king-jr-national-memorial/ Knight has just launched a new site, News Release Workshop to help you write a strong press release. On the site, you will find example press releases (here's another), a structural worksheet, and why the Flesch Score matters. All site content is under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works license, so ... http://www.knightblog.org/need-help-writing-news-releases/ Knight Commission member danah boyd posted to Twitter from the Chicago Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy meeting: You can watch the live webcast by clicking the top link on today's Commission agenda page. Do you have thoughts to share with the Commission? Leave a comment ... http://www.knightblog.org/live-webcast-of-knight-commission-chicago-meeting-today/ Congratulations to Lisa Williams and her team on the relaunched Placeblogger site: Placeblogger is a 2007 Knight News Challenge winner (the $5 million yearly contest to fund innovative ideas in local news delivery). The 2008 Knight News Challenge Screening Team is in Miami today to work through all of your great applications. ... http://www.knightblog.org/placeblogger-relaunches-news-challenge-screeners-in-town/ MTV Choose or Lose Street Team '08 (a Knight News Challenge---the $5 million yearly contest to fund innovative ideas about local news delivery---project) member Alex Parker wrote this review of his year covering the election for Kansas: I posted my final video for MTV News' (EMMY AWARD-WINNING!) Choose or ... http://www.knightblog.org/reflections-from-mtv-choose-or-lose-street-team-member/ Knight News Challenge (the $5 million yearly contest to fund innovation ideas in local news delivery) winner David Cohn's project, Spot.Us launched yesterday. An overview of the project: As David posted on his blog: The problem: Revenue. Journalism is a process not a product, but that process takes time and people ... http://www.knightblog.org/spotus-launches/ Today, Knight is launching a new community site called Knight Pulse, a place to discuss the future of information. Updated: Here's a video introducing the site: Despite the current explosion of information, we are less informed. And in a world defined by information exchange, we need new ways to give, share, ... http://www.knightblog.org/announcing-knight-pulse/ Knight News Challenge (the yearly $5 M contest for innovative local news delivery ideas that has just closed for this year's cycle) 2007 winner Rising Voices has been nominated for World's Best Blog in the Deutsche Welle awards. From the Global Voices site: Global Voices' citizen media outreach project, Rising ... http://www.knightblog.org/rising-voices-nominated-for-worlds-best-blog/ Editor's note: This is the first blog post where we are specifically highlighting an innovative project from another funding organization; let us know what you think in the comments. This post is from Gary Kebbel, Director of the Knight Journalism program. More and more individuals and non-profit organizations are experimenting ... http://www.knightblog.org/a-new-health-news-delivery-method-in-2009/ Don't forget to get your application into the Knight News Challenge site by November 1st at midnight, Pacific Time if you're planning to be part of this year's contest. (Of course, if you're like Lisa Williams, a 2007 winner, you can apply at the last minute--who knows, you might win!) For ... http://www.knightblog.org/knight-news-challenge-08-application-deadline-is-tomorrow-nov-1st/ Miro Local TV is a new project from the Participatory Culture Foundation, creators of the popular Internet TV application Miro, to help people find and discuss local online video. The project is funded by a $589,000 grant from Knight. PCF Founder Holmes Wilson talks about the project: ... http://www.knightblog.org/announcing-miro-local-tv/ Congratulations to the MIT Center for Future Civic Media team, a 2007 Knight News Challenge winner (remember, only two days left to apply for this year's contest), on their relaunched Web site. From the site's about page: The Center for Future Civic Media is working to create technical and ... http://www.knightblog.org/mit-center-for-future-civic-media-site-relaunches/ Director of the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism at the University of Maryland Carol Horner died last week in the District of Columbia. The Washington Post quotes Knight Foundation Journalism Vice President Eric Newton: "Under Carol Horner's leadership, the Knight Center in Specialized Journalism became the gold standard for training journalists ... http://www.knightblog.org/in-memory-of-carol-horner/ Editor's note: Susan Mernit is directing the Knight News Challenge this year; her thoughts below on Tuesday night's San Francisco gathering. We had over 70 people at TechSoup for the last (we think) Knight News Challenge meet up of this funding cycle. Being in my home base of San Francisco/Bay ... http://www.knightblog.org/knight-news-challenge-oct-21-sf-meetup-packs-the-house/ Thanks to Rosental Alves, Director of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas and Adam Weinroth of Pluck for two Austin News Challenge meetups last Thursday. News Challenge is the $5M yearly contest to find innovative ideas about delivering information to specific geographic communities, and the application deadline is ... http://www.knightblog.org/news-challenge-countdown-twelve-days-left/ The five founding medical and educational institutions (Akron Children’s Hospital, Akron General Health System, Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy (NEOUCOM), Summa Health System, and The University of Akron) announced the BioInnovation Institute in Akron earlier this week along with a $20 million grant from Knight Foundation. Knight CFO ... http://www.knightblog.org/knight-bioinnovation-institute-in-akron/