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The Knight Foundation announced its nine winners for the 2009 Knight News Challenge. The total award for this year was about $2 million, which is substantially less than awards in years 2007 and 2008. Those two years had a combined total of about 40 awards as compared to this year’s nine.
The top money winner for [...]

There is a nice little story unfolding from Kennesaw State University. Twenty-year-old Matt Nagy, a rising junior, was a second alternative for the regional U.S. Open qualifier here in Georgia. Being an alternative meant that for him to get a shot at the qualifier, someone had to be a no show and that, fortunately for [...]

This from a Knight Foundation press release:
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation today announced a $15 million initiative to help develop new economic models for investigative reporting on digital platforms.
Alas all but $3 million has already been granted.
The three newest grants were awarded to:

Center for Investigative Reporting ($1.32 million): to launch a new [...]

The Reinventing Journalism and Yourself: One Tweet, One Friend at a Time conference is now open for registration. This 4 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. networking thinkfest will be held Tuesday, August 4, 2009 at the Sheraton Boston Hotel.
The cost is just $40 for AEJMC members who are attending the AEJMC annual convention that week in [...]

As an editor, Michael Kinsley has worked for news chains, families and nonprofits. He doesn’t think of much of the chains or nonprofit models. For me I worked for family owned papers most of my career including the Carroll County New Hampshire) Independent, the Portland (Maine) Press Herald, Fosters Daily Democrat in New Hampshire, the [...]