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Knight Foundation President Alberto Ibargüen Addresses Economic Outlook

“First, let me repeat what we've discussed with many of you individually: while we have taken our losses, the foundation remains quite strong. I'm especially pleased to assure you that Knight Foundation will honor all existing pledges and grants.”

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Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Knight Foundation President Alberto Ibargüen Addresses Economic Outlook
Monday, December 29, 2008
Eulogy for Alvah H. Chapman, Jr. by David Lawrence, Jr.
Monday, December 29, 2008
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The New York Times
Dec. 27
Alvah H. Chapman Jr., Civic-Minded Leader of Knight Ridder, Dies at 87
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Dec. 25
Miami Civic Giant Alvah Chapman Leaves Legacy
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Dec. 21
Mike Pate: We must strengthen ties to our community

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Knight Blog
WNYC's The Takeaway Tells Roland Burris How to Get to the Senate Floor (Yesterday at 3:21 PM)
Knight is a funder of WNYC’s morning radio multi-platform news program The Takeaway. In between coverage about posted cheeky instructions for Roland Burris this morning: The Democrats want to deny him, but The Takeaway’s John Hockenberry takes to the telestrator to show Roland Burris how he can make it to the Senate floor and take a seat [...] (Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:21:57 +0000)More...
News Mixer: How Can We Improve Comments on News Sites? (Yesterday at 6:45 PM)
From our community site, Knight Pulse, a conversation with Brian Boyer about developing News Mixer, open source software that offers new comment options for news sites, with fellow graduate students at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism (a Knight News Challenge winner): Details on the team’s project site, Crunchberry.org and in Brian’s blog posts on the [...] (Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:45:47 +0000)More...
Knight President Alberto Ibargüen Addresses Economic Outlook (Tue., December 30, 5:33 PM)
Knight Foundation President Alberto Ibargüen addresses the economic outlook in a video (here’s the transcript): Some key points are listed below the video. First, let me repeat what we’ve discussed with many of you individually: while we have taken our losses, the foundation remains quite strong. I’m especially [...] (Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:33:57 +0000)More...
Four Online Community News Sites Expand Coverage (Wed., December 17, 5:43 PM)
From the press release: Four online community news sites will expand their local reporting staffs and bring their communities more content, with a combined $390,000 investment from Knight. The grants aim to help the non-profit sites draw a larger audience by providing more local news, a key to their long-term viability. The four recipients are: [...] (Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:43:57 +0000)More...
Happy 6th Birthday, Creative Commons (Tue., December 16, 12:09 PM)
From our new community site, Knight Pulse: How can licensing give creators control over use of their work? Eric Steuer, Creative Director of Creative Commons tell us how cc licenses empower creators and shares what’s next for the organization. Find more at the Creative Commons blog, wiki, and projects page. (Many Knight projects use CC licenses; [...] (Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:09:57 +0000)More...
Follow @knightfdn on Twitter (Fri., December 12, 12:09 AM)
Another way to find out what Knight is working on and thinking about: follow our Twitter feed for Knight Foundation and the Twitter for our new community site, Knight Pulse. Below, a screenshot of recent tweets (the parlance for Twitter updates); today, a link to Knight Stanford Fellow Andrew Haeg’s (@andrewhaeg) Twitter group, Change [...] (Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:09:55 +0000)More...
Global Forum for Media Development Begins Today in Athens (Mon., December 8, 5:54 PM)
Today, the Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD), funded in part by Knight, begins four days of meetings in Athens with 400 representatives from 100 countries to discuss the importance of media development to economic prosperity. “The GFMD aims to promote co-operation within the media development sector, to strengthen the quality of planning, evaluation and [...] (Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:54:55 +0000)More...
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