Since 2007, the Knight Foundation has leveraged grantmaking challenges to supplement our traditional funding and generate impact in journalism, arts and community engagement.
A new online tool leverages crowdsourcing on behalf of philanthropic causes, including donation-supported or crowdfunded community news and information. Impaq.me, created by the Investigative News Network, helps make this work visible, and turn social sharing about philanthropic work into contributions to support that work.
There were plenty of takeaways in Lee Rainie's recent presentation in New Jersey to community foundation leaders on new media and information ecosystems.
MIT researcher Rodgrigo Davies used a representative sample of several large crowdfunding sites, including U.S. platfofrms IOBY, Neighbor.ly and Citizenvestor, to explore the burgeoning subgenre of civic crowdfunding.
On May 12, the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas is launching a free five-week online course, Investigative Journalism for the Digital Age. This Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is aimed at journalism practitioners at any level of experience -- from students to longtime journalists, as well as citizen journalists and others not working in a traditional newsroom.
The 2014 Nonprofit Benchmarks Study, from the Nonprofit Technology Network, documents recent growth in digital charitable giving. This data would be relevant to community news, information and engagement projects which conduct online fundraising for all or part of their revenues.
It's a topic many journalism summits explore, though seldom with this level of focus. On April 3, 2014, Solving the Revenue Riddle: A Summit on Sustaining Digital News explored where money and journalism intersect when audiences have the luxury of an endless media terrain
Pew Research Internet Project's new study exploring how seniors adopt new technology didn't just factor age into the equation. Income and education, health of respondents, and attitudes on technology's benefits were carefully weighed.
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