“We’ve sort of developed this rhythm: we come up with an idea, we do a prototype of it really quickly, and we decide do we move it forward or try it for something else.”
Nick Denton says Gizmodo's new design focus is aimed at taking advantage of Gawker's discussion platform, Kinja. nie.mn/18QzLAz 
Articles tagged Knight Foundation (153)
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The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is a national foundation that funds a variety of causes, including journalism projects and organizations. The foundation was founded in 1950 by the Knight brothers, who owned the Ohio-based Knight Newspapers, which later became Knight Ridder. Since 1950, the foundation has invested nearly $400 million in journalism…
March 18, 2013
March 11, 2013
The latest project from the Knight-Mozilla collaboration is a set of online case studies written by developers and designers working in journalism.
March 7, 2013
A grant from Knight’s Prototype Fund will pay for a council of North Texas governments to render crime data from dozens of sources into a format journalists and the public can use.
March 7, 2013
Those grants, and five others, come from Knight’s Prototype Fund, its quick-turn tool for funding the testing of new ideas.
March 6, 2013
Matter, formerly known as the Public Media Accelerator, aims to join “the values of public media” to “the mindsets of Silicon Valley entrepreneurship.”
March 5, 2013
Project Argo, meet Project Largo: Open source code finds new use in the sites of nonprofit news orgs
An NPR beatblogging project gets recycled into a website framework for the Investigative News Network’s members.
March 4, 2013
The new report from the Council on Foundations and the Knight Foundation says the IRS process for granting 501(c)(3) status to news organizations is “archaic” and “obsolete” and suggests fixes.
February 27, 2013
What does an ideal front page look like, can social media usage predict political involvement, and how is user-generated content coming into newsrooms: all that and more in this month’s roundup of the academic literature.
February 20, 2013
The head of Knight’s journalism initiatives talks about who it funds and how it tries to give its projects life beyond a grant’s expiration date.
February 15, 2013
At Knight’s Media Learning Seminar, community foundations talked about rebuilding the information ecosystems hurt by traditional media’s decline.
February 15, 2013
Plus: Self-censorship in the media’s coverage of drones, Time Warner’s possible magazine sales plans, and the rest of the week’s news about the future of news.
January 28, 2013
Design studio TKOH will use its Knight News Challenge award to complete a prototype and run pilot testing.
January 28, 2013
The Knight News Challenge winner creates mobile surveys to help communities increase input from residents on important issues.
January 24, 2013
Activists, journalists, and others could use the mobile tool kit to share information on SIM cards the way files are shared on thumb drives.
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