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Knight Foundation Announces Major Grants to Improve Journalism
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House Passes Bill Containing Charitable Choice Provision
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Saint Paul Foundation Seeks New Donors for Diversity Funds
MacArthur Foundation Awards Grants to Media Centers for Community-Based Projects
Benton Foundation Report Finds Commercial Broadcasters Failing to Meet Community Needs
Freedom Forum Study Finds Newsrooms Lacking In Diversity
Knight Foundation Announces New Round of Journalism Grants
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National Endowment for the Humanities Announces $30.5 Million in New Grants
Pacific Life Insurance Company Awards Grants for Nonprofit Staff Positions
ExxonMobil Foundation Supports Expansion of Science Teaching Initiative
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PHILANTHROPY NEWS DIGEST
Published since 1961 by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, CJR is dedicated to assessing "the performance of journalism in all its forms, to call attention to its shortcomings and its strengths, and to help define — or redefine — standards of honest, responsible service." Like many similar publications, including the American Journalism Review, CJR has struggled financially. In 1999, the Knight Foundation made a similar $1 million grant in support of AJR.
Knight also announced a cross-disciplinary grant of $825,000 to help two Harvard graduate school programs — the Graduate School of Education’s Programs in Professional Education and the Kennedy School of Government’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy — to work together to expand and extend the reach of a professional development institute on "The Media and American Democracy." (For the complete list of grants made by Knight in this round of funding, follow the link to the foundation press release, below.)
The foundation also announced that it will join with the American Society of Newspapers Editors, the Associated Press Managing Editors, and the Freedom Forum in announcing new national newspaper diversity initiatives, including a project to reenergize and support high-school journalism in U.S. communiites.
FCnote: The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation (FL) had assets of $1,247,860,819 and made grants totaling $46,772,473 in the year ending 12/31/98.
"Columbia Journalism Review to Receive $1 Million Grant From Knight Foundation." Knight Foundation Press Release
3/23/2000.
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