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NewBizNews Conference Schedule: 11/11/09
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Take a look at the latest lineup for tomorrow’s New Business Models for (Local) News Conference and HyperCamp.12 hours ago -
Texas Tribune: Looking for its own brand of news
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From Marly Falcon, Knight Foundation contributing blogger: When the Fort Hood shootings were reported last week, The Texas Tribune stood back while other publications rushed to the scene. The New York Times explained that it wasn’t that the incident lacked interest to the journalists at the new web ...1 day ago -
It’s called Computational Journalism
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Never mind the big words. “Computational journalism” is all about using modern tools to do news in the public interest. The “computation” part refers to the use of computers to create, understand and display the news. Sarah Cohen is a Knight journalism chair focused on this new form of watchdog reporting. ...1 day ago -
Letter of Inquiry * John & James Knight Foundation
BDPA Foundation —
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BDPA Education and Technology Foundation ( BETF ) partnered with BDPA Charlotte chapter to submit a letter of inquiry to the Knight Foundation . We asked them to fund $5,000 for the chapters annual Student IT Education & Scholar ship ( SITES ) program. As a national foundation with local roots, ...1 day ago -
Tough love for news media
News Innovation —
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Here’s video version of the talk I keynote talk I linked below for the Munich Media Days conference a week ago. I gave them tough love, saying I was concerned about the protectionist talk I’ve heard from Germany media, not unlike one what can here in the U.S. and elsewhere. I also talked about the New Business ...4 days ago -
Fridays are for Friends & Family 11.06.09
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Authority: 114
Welcome to another week-ending edition of FFF! This week has been a flurry of activity as we finalize plans for our organization’s Annual Meeting, which begins here in Towson, Maryland, on Sunday. You can read about it here ; in addition, you can register for several events by going to this page . I hope to see ...4 days ago -
Kicking Off the Grant Process With Monitoring and Evaluation
MediaShift Idea Lab —
Authority: 125
We at the Jefferson Institute began our experience as a 2009 Knight News Challenge winner with one of the more exciting and misunderstood elements of the grant cycle: monitoring and evaluation (M&E). When done properly, M&E begins with the grantee setting out clearly the objectives of the grant, the ...5 days ago -
Getting Better at Design and Crisis Mapping
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I’m really ( REALLY ) excited today. Today I get to announce that two amazing individuals who have been long-time Ushahidi community members are joining the team to help with areas that we have a great need for their expertise in. First though, a big thank you to the Cisco Foundation . Through their generous ...1 week ago -
The future of news is entrepreneurial
News Innovation —
Authority: 113
The future of news is entrepreneurial. There’s a lot in that statement. It says: The future of news is not institutional… The news of tomorrow has yet to be built…. The structure – the ecosystem – of news will not be dominated by a few corporations but likely will be made up of networks of many startups ...1 week ago -
Guess who monetised editorial space first?
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“Paid News”—editorial space being sold for a fee, without revealing to news consumers that it is an advertisement—is suddenly all the rage, with the Magsaysay Award-winning journalist P. Sainath weighing in on the issue. The Foundation for Media Professionals (FMP) conducted a seminar on the topic; ...1 week ago -
DocumentCloud Going Open Source Every Step of the Way
MediaShift Idea Lab —
Authority: 125
What does it mean to work on a project where open-source principles are written into the founding contract? A little over a month after receiving a 2009 Knight News Challenge grant, DocumentCloud released its first open-source component. The system, called CloudCrowd , performs the distributed computing that helps ...1 week ago -
The G-Word … government … and the future of news
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In USA TODAY , Don Campbell writes that media executives are the ones responsible for the future of news. ”Publishers and news executives face perilous challenges, but they don’t need, nor should they accept, help from government at any level,” he says. ” They have to save themselves.” Campbell ...1 week ago -
IWMF Selects Elizabeth Neuffer Fellow
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From Marly Falcon, Knight Foundation contributing blogger: The International Women’s Media Foundation, IWMF , selected Firle Davies, a journalist for the British Broadcasting Corporation, as the 2009-2010 recipient of the Knight Foundation-funded Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship . During her fellowship, Davies ...1 week ago -
NewBizNews HyperCamp Schedule
News Innovation —
Authority: 113
We’re looking forward to the New Business Models for (Local) News HyperCamp, scheduled for Wednesday, November 11th. The conference schedule is now available here and as a google doc. The day-long event will be held at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism — 219 West 40th Street, 3rd Floor, NYC. Coffee and ...1 week ago -
Knight Chair on the Air: Michael Pollan’s ‘Botany of Desire’
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From Marly Falcon, Knight Foundation contributing blogger: People are easily lured in by the sweetness, beauty, smell and sometimes even intoxication of certain plants. What if plants have their own hidden agenda that we didn’t know about? Michael Pollan, Knight Chair in Science and ...2 weeks ago -
Annual Top Grantmaker Rankings Released
Minnesota Council on Foundations Blog - Philanthropy Potluck —
Authority: 119
Target, McKnight and General Mills Rank Highest in 2008 Grants Paid The Minnesota Council on Foundations (MCF) today released its annual rankings of the top grantmakers in Minnesota based on cash grants paid in 2008. The annual rankings lists include: Top 50 Minnesota Grantmakers overall; Top 50 Minnesota ...2 weeks ago -
Speeding Media Innovation with Drupal
Knight Foundation Blog —
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Jose Zamora is a Journalism Program Associate at Knight Foundation The first Knight funded Drupal project to release its open-source code, Managing News, launched last week. You can read about it here: Media Innovation with Drupal . This week, on the fifth day of being publicly available, the project has been ...2 weeks ago -
Developers wanted: Tell us your great idea for a local news app.
Knight Foundation Blog —
Authority: 121
Cross-posted from the Knight News Challenge Blog and the Sunlight Labs Blog The reason why we extended the Knight News Challenge deadline is because we want to invite and partner with organizations that share our mission, values and goals, and that have networks of software developers and entrepreneurs. Our ...2 weeks ago -
hNews Adopted by AOL and TownNews
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Jose Zamora is a Journalism Program Associate at Knight Foundation Here’s evidence that the Knight News Challenge projects, experiments we hoped will speed media innovation, are having impact: The Transparency Initiative announced this week that AOL and TownNews have adopted the Knight funded microformat – ...2 weeks ago -
Speeding Media Innovation with Drupal
Knight Foundation Blog —
Authority: 121
Jose Zamora is a Journalism Program Associate at Knight Foundation Managing News released its open-source code. It is the first out of six Drupal projects funded through the Knight Drupal Initiative to do so. Managing News is a news and data aggregator that also maps and charts the information it collects ...2 weeks ago
