Knight Foundation News & Articles

Google showed love for digital journalism back in October by announcing plans to invest US$ 5 million in grants to related non-profit organizations. Today US$ 2.7 million of it went towards sponsoring the International Press Institute's (IPI) News Innovation Contest. 

What comes first: creativity or technology? Some say you can't have one without the other, while others might claim they are entirely separate concepts. Yet, when it comes to web publishing, it seems that creative technologies go hand in hand. Just ask the New York Times or the Medill School of Journalism. 

Many things happened at Drupalcon DC, the annual conference for the open source web content management platform. There were sessions, BOFs, parties, shirts, keynotes, zoo tours, sandwiches and frankly we probably don't want to know what else.

But for anyone who came to Drupal (news,site) new and lost and tried to use its documentation, something truly wonderful happened too. Jose Zamora from the Knight Foundation announced that, among other things, the Drupal documentation team got the funding they had requested from the Knight Drupal Initiative (KDI).

In rough economic times such as these, it is important to recognize the more optimistic efforts being made to inspire change by way of new media and technology.

Thanks to the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, an organization dedicated to awarding grants to help transform journalism and communities, twenty-one innovative ideas that will help residents lead informed lives have received US$ 5 million. The projects are the first winners of the Knight Community Information Challenge, a five-year, US$ 24 million initiative to help community foundations support creative ways to use new media and technology to keep communities engaged.