Tag: Funding

In the wake of major layoffs, The Economic Hardship Reporting Project (EHRP) announced a fund to support reporters and photographers.

Knight News Challenge on Libraries last week announced funding of $1.6 million for a range of innovative digital and data projects.

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.

Goodbye Dewey Decimal and welcome to the library of the 21st Century. The Knight Foundation this week awarded more than $3 million.

Winners of the 2014 Knight News Challenge were announced at the 2014 MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference in Boston last week.

At the Clinton Health Matters conference in Palm Springs, the Knight Foundation announced $2.2 million in funding for seven startups.

Ashton Kutcher, Google, and Omidyar Network are among the top investors leading a $430 million funding surge in startups.

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.

Eight media innovation ventures this week received a total of $2.4 million as winners of the Knight News Challenge: Mobile.

Six media innovation ventures received a total of $2.22 million this week as winners of the Knight News Challenge: Data.

On June 18th at MIT in Boston, Knight Foundation announced that six media innovation ventures would be awarded more than $1.37 million.

Aiming to strengthen the role of the Internet as a platform for global learning, tThe Knight Foundation and Mozilla provided $1 million in funding.