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Philadelphia Inquirer

Engaging Black men and boys

The Black Male Engagement project is promoting the stories of men such as Shawn White, who reaches out to Philadelphia's black community by organizing barbers to help raise awareness of HIV and AIDS.

Power2Give.org

Matching funds for local projects

The Arts & Science Council (ASC) launches www.power2give.org, a new fundraising platform to support arts, science, history and heritage projects in Charlotte-Mecklenburg.

Alberto Ibargüen

Investing in innovation & journalism

Knight Foundation's President and CEO: "There was a unity of business and mission under Jack Knight’s ownership, and informing community was at the core of his business model"

Eric Newton:

Comfort News bad for the diet

Just as we consume comfort food, our high-calorie midnight ice creams, we are, more and more, consuming “comfort news.”

Social Networks 2015

Connected Citizens Report

New networks are emerging everywhere. It’s exciting—and frightening. What is this new network-centric world? What does it mean for community change?

Our Founders

Legacy of Jack & Jim Knight

John S. and James L. Knight were entrepreneurs who transformed a small newspaper company in Akron, Ohio, into the nation’s largest newspaper chain.

Meet Our Grantees

Localocracy

To support an "Online Town Common" platform to enhance community dialogue in partnership with established media organizations

Explore Our Work

We fund ideas …from people with the vision, tenacity, courage, know-how, and commitment to discovery to see them through.

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Journalism & Media Innovation

Knight Foundation aims to help sustain democracy by leading journalism to its best possible future in the 21st century.

Browse Innovation Projects What We Fund
Engaged Communities

To help sustain healthy communities in a democracy, we aim to increase the ability of individuals to engage in change.

Browse Communities Projects What We Fund
Fostering the Arts

We seek to weave the arts into the fabric of communities to engage and inspire the people living in them.

Browse Arts Projects What We Fund

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News Releases

Knight Blog

- 8/26/2011
- Blog Entry
NewsU celebrates nearly 200,000 users by sharing their stories
- 8/25/2011
- Blog Entry
The Oakland Tribune: Losing more than a newspaper
- 8/25/2011
- Blog Entry
Ushahidi blogs live from the .ke Evaluation Launch
- 8/25/2011
- Blog Entry
Soul of the Community helps Akron put down roots, build careers and lives
- 8/25/2011
- Blog Entry
Strengthening our communities will take reform from the government, the media and citizens
- 8/24/2011
- Blog Entry
People want more government transparency, traditional media less likely to sue to get it
- 8/19/2011
- Blog Entry
Northeastern Students Produce Impactful Investigations with Local News Organizations
- 8/17/2011
- Blog Entry
Jumo, Good Magazine join forces
- 8/16/2011
- Blog Entry
Creed C. Black, 1925-2011
- 8/15/2011
- Blog Entry
Video stories and symposium explore local information needs

Twitter

- 8/26/2011
- Twitter
RT @COF_: Reporting Brooklyn: Beyond the Style Section http://ow.ly/6bLM6 #philanthropy
- 8/25/2011
- Twitter
RT @EricNewton1: #Localjournalism suffers another blow as the @OaklandTribune shuts down http://t.co/a1fx4CE #infoneeds
- 8/25/2011
- Twitter
@EricNewton1: #Localjournalism suffers another blow as the @OaklandTribune shuts down http://t.co/a1fx4CE
- 8/25/2011
- Twitter
RT @knightakron: Community engagement workshop helps #Akron love the city, create soul in the community http://t.co/9Isw9Ir
- 8/25/2011
- Twitter
@ushahidi blogs live from the .ke Evaluation Launch http://t.co/bULaEma #ushmeet
- 8/25/2011
- Twitter
MT @dcharliebrown: @phillyinquirer article on our @BMEChallenge work with @knightfdn. Engaging comment thread http://t.co/c95cMCK
- 8/25/2011
- Twitter
RT @jczamora: More Legal Resources for Online Journalists http://t.co/wqTG4lX c. @citmedialaw
- 8/25/2011
- Twitter
RT @jczamora: Just in case you missed it - Legal Resources for Social Entrepreneurs - http://t.co/DjDIkVe c. @LexMundi http://t.co/muR1RZy
- 8/25/2011
- Twitter
Strengthening #communities is going to take reform, including stronger #publicmedia and universal broadband http://t.co/GVaTyXz
- 8/24/2011
- Twitter
People want more government #transparency, traditional media less likely to sue to get it, say @NFOIC & @MediaLawMLRC http://t.co/IsyrBdk

Publications

- 8/25/2011
- Publication
Oakland Tribune Letter
- 7/1/2011
- Publication
Re-Imagining Journalism: Local News for a Networked World
- 6/22/2011
- Publication
Center for Future Civic Media Assessment Report
- 6/17/2011
- Publication
An Interim Review of the Knight News Challenge
- 6/15/2011
- Publication
Reinvigorating Journalism Education
- 6/8/2011
- Publication
From Ruins of War, A Nation's History Preserved
- 5/31/2011
- Publication
Measuring the Online Impact of Your Information Projects
- 5/31/2011
- Publication
- - Evaluation
University Park Alliance Revitalization
- 5/31/2011
- Publication
Libraries Initiative
- 5/31/2011
- Publication
- - Evaluation
KaBOOM!

In The News

- 8/26/2011
- In The News
Reporting Brooklyn: Beyond the Style Section
- 8/26/2011
- In The News
3 Water Solutions Vying for $15K in MN Idea Open
- 8/20/2011
- In The News
Eulogy by David Lawrence for Creed Black
- 8/18/2011
- In The News
Two Groups That Help Nonprofits in a Merger
- 8/18/2011
- In The News
Creed C. Black, Newspaper Executive, Dies at 86
- 8/17/2011
- In The News
Creed Black, newsman who ran Knight Foundation for a decade, dies at 86
- 8/15/2011
- In The News
Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics scores with NCAA rule
- 8/11/2011
- In The News
Sports Illustrated: Check the sky for pigs
- 8/11/2011
- In The News
New "Be Me" project champions black men in Detroit, Philadelphia
- 8/11/2011
- In The News
The 'mobs' we haven't heard much about

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