Tag: Knight Foundation
Foundations commit $36.5M for public media
Public Media Co. will manage the Public Media Bridge Fund, a new effort that is expected to receive $26.5 million of the ...Public broadcasters, nonprofit media receive grants to use Hearken and GroundSource
The Community Listening Engagement Fund awarded $241,000 to subsidize costs of platforms that help newsrooms integrate journalism into their communities.Media funders launch initiative to restore audience trust through engagement
A new grant-making initiative will subsidize costs for newsrooms to adopt the Hearken and GroundSource platforms.Report: Most Americans don’t cite NPR, PBS as objective
A Gallup/Knight Foundation report released Tuesday finds a strong correlation between political values and distrust of the media.CUNY seeks to fill gap left by closure of New America Media
The university's journalism school is exploring how it can expand on its work with ethnic and community media.Knight Foundation aids hurricane relief in Puerto Rico with LPRC grant
The funds will help stations get back on the air and maintain service after Hurricane Maria.Podcast ‘super listeners’ are big public media consumers — but are they loyal?
Nearly one-third of podcast “super listeners” told researchers they had donated money to their local public radio stations in the last year, ...News Match kicks off with $3 million for nonprofit newsrooms
The Democracy Fund, the Knight Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation are collaborating to match contributions to nonprofit news organizations through the end ...NPR wins award to experiment with virtual-reality audio
The NPR project is among 11 winners of the Journalism 360 Challenge awards.Latest Radiotopia podcast takes listeners inside San Quentin
The podcast, incubated through PRX's Podquest contest, debuts June 14.Knight grant to StoryCorps will fuel app upgrades, community engagement
The app has been downloaded more than 220,000 times since its March launch.Guardian News & Media launching mobile innovation lab with $2.6M Knight grant
Results will be shared with the news industry as a whole.INN supports West Virginia Public Broadcasting app for capturing veterans’ stories
West Virginia Public Broadcasting was one of eight news organizations that received grants.Matter launches new class of media startups
Media startup accelerator Matter launches its fourth class on entrepreneurs.Political news from Michigan’s WKAR goes mobile with new app
WKAR-TV in East Lansing, Mich., will make content from a weekly state politics and public affairs show available via a mobile app ...
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