Brother John S. and James L. Knight built and ran one of America’s largest and most successful 20th century newspaper companies. The Knights formed Knight Foundation to support transformational ideas that promote quality journalism, advance media innovation, engage communities and foster the arts. We believe that democracy thrives when people and communities are informed and engaged.
Seven innovators from across the United States were named Knight Public Spaces Fellows this week – leaders who created or influenced great public spaces.
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More than 80 percent of accounts that repeatedly spread misinformation during the 2016 election campaign are still active.
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A $27 million fund aimed at ensuring that artificial intelligence is developed in the public interest has announced its round of funding: $7.6 million.
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Knight News Challenge on Libraries last week announced funding of $1.6 million for a range of innovative digital and data projects.
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With the nation gearing up for the 2016 elections, the Knight News Challenge on Elections in Austin awarded $3.2 million to a range of innovative projects.
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Goodbye Dewey Decimal and welcome to the library of the 21st Century. The Knight Foundation this week awarded more than $3 million.
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Amid debate over free speech, surveillance, and privacy, a new survey by The Knight Foundation shows students are more supportive of First Amendment.
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Winners of the 2014 Knight News Challenge were announced at the 2014 MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference in Boston last week.
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At the Clinton Health Matters conference in Palm Springs, the Knight Foundation announced $2.2 million in funding for seven startups.
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Ashton Kutcher, Google, and Omidyar Network are among the top investors leading a $430 million funding surge in startups.
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PKPR was in Cambridge, MA this week for the announcement of the Knight News Challenge on Open Gov at the MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference.
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Eight media innovation ventures this week received a total of $2.4 million as winners of the Knight News Challenge: Mobile.
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PKPR proudly worked with The Knight Foundation on promoting the amazing service that Knight News Challenge winner Recovers.org provided in NY.
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Six media innovation ventures received a total of $2.22 million this week as winners of the Knight News Challenge: Data.
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On June 18th at MIT in Boston, Knight Foundation announced that six media innovation ventures would be awarded more than $1.37 million.
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Aiming to strengthen the role of the Internet as a platform for global learning, tThe Knight Foundation and Mozilla provided $1 million in funding.
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