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What We Fund

Knight Foundation's signature work is its Journalism Program. Since its creation in 1950, the foundation has invested more than $300 million to advance journalism excellence and freedom of expression worldwide.

We seek to partner with those who choose to lead great journalism into this new century. Our priority grant-making areas: Digital Media and News in the Public Interest, Press Freedom and Freedom of Information, News and Newsroom Diversity, and Journalism Training and Education.

We hope to help speed the news community's digital transformation ; raise citizen awareness of the value of free expression; help people in all communities get the news they need; and teach and train the journalists of both today and tomorrow.

We've established 22 Knight Chairs in Journalism for professional journalists who inspire excellence, collaborators who reach out and innovate, catalysts for expanded programs, and visionaries who want to change American journalism.

We work toward a day when all students in free nations understand their freedoms; where every school has student media, everyone is news literate, all governments are open and all voters well informed.

What We Fund:

Press Freedom and Freedom of Information: We work to advance journalism excellence, free expression and freedom of information worldwide through high-impact projects.
Digital Media and News in the Public Interest: We intend to advance the best values of journalism through rapidly developing digital media.
News and Newsroom Diversity: We help newsrooms and citizens use emerging technologies to better cover and engage their entire community.
Training and Education: We aim to speed the news communitys digital transformation by working with both current and future journalists. See Midcareer Training Programs | Knight Chairs in Journalism

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News Releases

Monday, December 7, 2009: Knight Supports Newsroom Diversity with 100 Scholarships to Poynter
Monday, December 7, 2009: Knight Center Closing Dec. 31
Monday, August 17, 2009: The Chicago Community Trust Launches Community News Matters
Thursday, August 13, 2009: Cafebabel.com Develops New Business Strategy, Multilingual Web Tools

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Knight in the News

The TIAA-CREF Institute Mar. 11: Knight Commission on InterCollegiate Athletics Co-Chair William E. Kirwan Honored
FSG Social Impact Advisers Mar. 3: Just Published: Place-Based Foundations and the Knight Community Information Challenge
The Miami Herald Feb. 26: Struggling schools will get more teachers
The Miami Herald Feb. 26: UM Video Project Links Miami, Havana

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