Knight foundation grantees writing background papers for a conference at Sanford on non-profit media included Penelope Muse Abernathy and Brant Houston, both Knight Chairs in Journalism.

 

James T. Hamilton, the Director of Duke's DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy, and Joel Kramer of MinnPost also wrote on emerging non-profit forms.

 

Stephen Engelberg, managing editor of ProPublica, spoke at the conference.

 

Check out the conference's web site, where you'll find the final conference report (.pdf) including the background papers, plus reactions from attendees.