Josh Benton of the Nieman Journalism Lab interviewed Dawn Garcia and me last week when we were in Cambridge. Video is posted here (and let me say also that the Nieman Journalism Lab is an excellent contributor to the ongoing discussion about the journalism issues we’re all interested in).

The Knight Fellowships program got a nice shout-out from the start-up Apture when it got a round of financing in March. PRODUCT DESCRIPTION ALERT: Apture is a technology tool that enables multi-media publishing on the websites of journalism companies like the Washington Post. Journalists can use the tool to more seamlessly publish deeper, multi-layered stories [...]

We’ve finished our initial review of U.S. and International Knight Fellowship applications for next year — the first under our new orientation — and boy, has it been enlightening.
For starters, we had a record number of people applying, a total of 298. That’s up from 254 last year and 215 the year before that. The [...]

Walter Isaacson, head of the Aspen Institute and formerly of CNN and Time, wants an efficient micropayment system pursued by newspapers and magazine. His lecture making this argument, delivered yesterday, makes an excellent case that giving people something for free removes an essential bond with them.

The notion of endowed newspapers has been bounced around the last few days, starting with an op-ed in the New York Times. Dan Gillmor’s take on the idea is here (it’s mostly critical, and has comprehensive links to relevant commentary following the Times piece).