The newsonomics of the death and life of California news
The massive changes we're seeing in California journalism portend even faster journalistic change across the country. We Californians like to believe we're always at the birth of the new new, from Hollywood to Silicon Valley. Certainly, that's been true of news change — and now that change has greatly accelerated, doing spins, free falls, reversals...
OpenNews aims to satiate demand for news-savvy coders… or is it code-savvy journalists?
One hundred Internet years ago, in 2010, Dan Sinker got together with Mozilla and the Knight Foundation to push more news organizations to embrace the open web. Five technologists were selected as News Technology fellows, charged with bringing the "show your work" ethos to traditional newsrooms across the country. The fellowships are just getting underway,...
10 Types of Foundation-Led Projects Changing the Local Media Landscape
Local foundations are becoming key players in the emerging local news ecosystem by funding news and information projects or creating their own.Knowing that, the Knight Foundation has distributed more than $16 million to 85 challenge win...
The Philadelphia Experiment: Why a media company wants to be a tech incubator
One side effect of downsizing at most newspapers: a surplus of office space. That may be a cold blooded way of seeing the empty desks that haunt newsrooms and advertising departments, but in an era where newspapers get bought largely for the value of their underlying real estate, the fact is that's square footage that...
Media Decoder Blog: Tweeting Your Way to a Scholarship
To celebrate the 220th anniversary of the First Amendment, the campaign 1 for All is offering scholarships to students who sent Twitter messages about the First Amendment.
Knight funds collaborative reporting center in Georgia
The Knight Foundation is launching a new program at Mercer University designed to prepare journalists, both aspiring and employed, how to perform their craft in an increasingly interdependent industry. The Center for Collaborative Journalism at Mercer will partner students from the school's journalism and media studies program with journalists from The (Macon) Telegraph and Georgia...
A Y Combinator for public media: PRX, Knight launch a $2.5 million accelerator
A new Public Media Accelerator, funded by $2.5 million from the Knight Foundation, will rapidly fund disruptive ideas in public media, PRX announced today. The final details are still being worked out, but the accelerator is modeled on successful startup-focused initiatives like TechStars and Y Combinator. Technologists and digital storytellers will compete for cash to...
Tom Stites: Taking stock of the state of web journalism
Tom Stites had a long career in newspapers, editing Pulitzer-winning projects and working at top newspapers like The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Philadelphia Inquirer. In recent years, he's shifted his emphasis to trying to figure out a new business model to support journalism through the Banyan Project. This week, Tom outlines...
Lessons from #Mozfest: How the Knight and Mozilla Foundations are thinking about open source
While at the Mozilla Festival in London earlier this month, we were struck by how much the Knight and Mozilla Foundations have in common. Mark Surman, executive director of the Mozilla Foundation, began the event’s first “opening circle” by noting that people should be “media makers, not media consumers.” Michael Maness, Knight’s vice president for...
RE: FW: NewsWorks: Back-to-the-future community news
It's hard building an online community from scratch. Will anyone show up? Will they come back? Will they be nice to each other? A year ago, Philadelphia's WHYY launched NewsWorks, a hyperlocal, pro-am news site for northwest Philly. It was the station's first serious foray into online news, and a year later, here's a taste of what's...
This Week in Review: Things get testier at News Corp., Google+ makes an identity compromise
Every Friday, Mark Coddington sums up the week's top stories about the future of news. Also this week: a new Knight Foundation study on nonprofit news sites, data that suggest an auspicious start for Apple's Newsstand, and other recommended reading.
