Knight has just launched a new site, News Release Workshop to help you write a strong press release. On the site, you will find example press releases (here’s another), a structural worksheet, and why the Flesch Score matters. All site content is under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works license, so we hope you will share [...] (Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:42:49 +0000)More...

Knight Commission member danah boyd posted to Twitter from the Chicago Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy meeting: You can watch the live webcast by clicking the top link on today’s Commission agenda page. Do you have thoughts to share with the Commission? Leave a comment below or Twitter @knightfdn. (Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:53:52 +0000)More...

Congratulations to Lisa Williams and her team on the relaunched Placeblogger site: Placeblogger is a 2007 Knight News Challenge winner (the $5 million yearly contest to fund innovative ideas in local news delivery). The 2008 Knight News Challenge Screening Team is in Miami today to work through all of your great applications. Here’s some of the energy [...] (Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:56:41 +0000)More...

MTV Choose or Lose Street Team ‘08 (a Knight News Challenge—the $5 million yearly contest to fund innovative ideas about local news delivery—project) member Alex Parker wrote this review of his year covering the election for Kansas: I posted my final video for MTV News’ (EMMY AWARD-WINNING!) Choose or Lose Street Team ‘08, a [...] (Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:53:07 +0000)More...

Knight News Challenge (the $5 million yearly contest to fund innovation ideas in local news delivery) winner David Cohn’s project, Spot.Us launched yesterday. An overview of the project: As David posted on his blog: The problem: Revenue. Journalism is a process not a product, but that process takes time and people who do it professionally need [...] (Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:44:07 +0000)More...

Today, Knight is launching a new community site called Knight Pulse, a place to discuss the future of information. Updated: Here’s a video introducing the site: Despite the current explosion of information, we are less informed. And in a world defined by information exchange, we need new ways to give, share, find, and receive information in [...] (Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:43:03 +0000)More...

Knight News Challenge (the yearly $5 M contest for innovative local news delivery ideas that has just closed for this year’s cycle) 2007 winner Rising Voices has been nominated for World’s Best Blog in the Deutsche Welle awards. From the Global Voices site: Global Voices’ citizen media outreach project, Rising Voices has been nominated for [...] (Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:23:43 +0000)More...