From the archive, Knight CEO and president Alberto Ibargüen interviewed Muhammad Yunus at the Poder Philanthropy Forum on March 12, 2008.

Founder of Grameen Bank Yunus and Ibargüen discussed certainty, freedom, and the dreams of flower children, among other things:

What would you ask Muhammad Yunus?

Editor’s note: Marc Fest is V.P. of Communications at Knight Foundation. Below, he frames a recent speech by CEO and president Alberto Ibargüen that outlines Knight Foundation’s current media innovation strategy.

Our media innovation strategy shapes various Knight projects that address the information needs of communities in a democracy.

Knight’s CEO and president Alberto Ibargüen recently explained the strategy, and initiatives and projects that flow from it, in a speech at the Boston Foundation. You can read it here.

Last Wednesday, the Knight News Challenge winners were announced at the Editor & Publisher/Mediaweek Interactive conference in Las Vegas.

Knight Foundation president and CEO Alberto Ibargüen chatted with one of the winners, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, after the announcement; inventor of the World Wide Web, Berners-Lee is working with Martin Moore on a transparent journalism project.

The full details on all sixteen grants are here.

Video from all the winners explaining their projects, as Bev Clark does for her Freedom Fone project below, will be posted on this blog this week.

This year’s winners will also join last year’s News Challenge winners blogging for IdeaLab.

Fans of the News Challenge and these projects can join the News Challenge Ning social network to interact with the winners.