Tag: Knight Foundation
Knight Foundation announces $1.5 million grant to news nonprofit Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune, an online news nonprofit that produces in-depth stories about Texas government and policy, received $1.5 million from the John ...Joe Donnelly will head Knight-funded journalism nonprofit in Santa Barbara
Joe Donnelly, former senior editor at L.A. Weekly and co-founder of the quarterly reader Slake: Los Angeles, will become the executive editor ...For-profit start-up accelerator aims to make public media ‘Matter’ to Silicon Valley
The start-up accelerator unveiled a year ago as an experiment in bringing Silicon Valley’s culture of innovation to public media has rebranded ...Pubcaster, college, for-profit news all meld in Macon
A partnership between a public radio station, a private university and a for-profit newspaper is beefing up local news coverage in Georgia’s ...WWNO, NPR plan expanded newsroom to serve New Orleans
A group of public radio partners is preparing to launch a new local journalism nonprofit that will employ upwards of 20 people ...Knight retools grant programs, adds new fund for ‘tinkerers of all kinds’
In another set of changes intended to adjust its journalism philanthropy to the rapidly evolving digital-media marketplace, the John S. and James ...Knight seeds investigative news channel on YouTube
The nonprofit Center for Investigative Reporting is launching an investigative news channel on YouTube to serve as a hub for investigative journalism. ...Eleven of 12 stations to continue niche blogs
All but one of the dozen pubradio stations in NPR’s Project Argo plan to keep their specialized beat-bloggers working, even though the ...NewsHour picks up Bellantoni, WBEZ personnel changes, and more…
Bellantoni to oversee all <em>NewsHour</em> political coverage PBS NewsHour has a new political editor as of Jan. 2. Christina Bellantoni of CQ Roll Call oversees the ...PRX gets some fuel to incubate public-media journalism tools
With $2.5 million from the Knight Foundation, Public Radio Exchange will rev up a new Public Media Accelerator next year to assist ...Radio indie’s project lands Knight News Challenge grant
The Knight Foundation awarded $420,000 last week to support the development of Zeega, an open-source HTML5 platform co-created by independent public radio ...‘More local, more inclusive, more interactive’
Citing public broadcasting’s “mixed history” in providing local news and information, a blue-ribbon panel has called on the field to “move quickly ...PBS to develop proposal for public affairs channel
Backed by a $200,000 Knight Foundation grant, PBS will develop a proposal for a public affairs channel — working title, Public Square ...
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