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The Community Listening Engagement Fund awarded $241,000 to subsidize costs of platforms that help newsrooms integrate journalism into their communities.
A new grant-making initiative will subsidize costs for newsrooms to adopt the Hearken and GroundSource platforms.
A Gallup/Knight Foundation report released Tuesday finds a strong correlation between political values and distrust of the media.
The university’s journalism school is exploring how it can expand on its work with ethnic and community media.
The funds will help stations get back on the air and maintain service after Hurricane Maria.
Nearly one-third of podcast “super listeners” told researchers they had donated money to their local public radio stations in the last year, according to a new report.
The Democracy Fund, the Knight Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation are collaborating to match contributions to nonprofit news organizations through the end of the year.
The NPR project is among 11 winners of the Journalism 360 Challenge awards.
The podcast, incubated through PRX’s Podquest contest, debuts June 14.
The app has been downloaded more than 220,000 times since its March launch.
Results will be shared with the news industry as a whole.
West Virginia Public Broadcasting was one of eight news organizations that received grants.
Media startup accelerator Matter launches its fourth class on entrepreneurs.
WKAR-TV in East Lansing, Mich., will make content from a weekly state politics and public affairs show available via a mobile app funded by a grant from the Investigative News Network. The scope of WKAR’s proposed app helped it stand out among a pool of 48 applicants, said Kevin Davis, c.e.o. and executive director of INN. “What made it unique was that the app was focused more on a program rather than on general content,” Davis said. “It was quite niche.” (Disclosure: Current is contracting with INN for web development services.)
The weekly show, Off the Record, has provided coverage of Michigan affairs for 43 years, aided in part by WKAR’s location near the state capital. The half-hour broadcast is supplemented by OTR Extra, a live webcast featuring additional discussions among the show’s guests.
Plus: Grants to digital projects at PRI and WKAR.
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A rejiggered phone booth from New York Public Radio, a mobile app produced by StoryCorps and a public-records data tool from the founder of FOIA Machine are among the 16 recipients of grants from this year’s Knight Foundation Prototype Fund. The foundation’s annual contest awards six-month, $35,000 grants to help recipients develop early-stage media ideas. Winners were announced Thursday. “While six months and a $35,000 grant might not always be enough to finish version one of a project, it can go a long way towards validating an assumption, developing a minimum viable product or identifying a need to revise an approach,” Chris Barr, a media innovation associate with Knight, wrote in a release. This year’s pubmedia and nonprofit media prototype grant winners include:
Talk Box, a New York Public Radio project to turn select New York City phone booths into “a direct, two-way line to the New York Public Radio newsroom.”
DIY StoryCorps, a mobile app from StoryCorps that will allow users to record and upload stories on their own, without visiting a StoryCorps booth.
Plus: NPR explains its analytics dashboard, and the Knight Foundation’s interest in digital storytelling.
The two nonprofit newsrooms will split a $1.2 million grant from the foundation over two years.
How We Got to Now, a fall PBS series charting the history of innovation, will accompany a stand-alone news and commentary website funded by the Knight Foundation.