Archive for category: Knight Fellowships


Nieman J-Lab video on Knight Fellowship changes

by Jim Bettinger, Jun 26th, 2009 | Knight Fellowships

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).

Knight Fellows’ contribution to a Silicon Valley start-up

by Jim Bettinger, Apr 9th, 2009 | Knight Fellowships

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 [...]

Lessons from Knight Fellowship applications

by Jim Bettinger, Mar 3rd, 2009 | Knight Fellowships

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 [...]

A solution in micropayments?

by Jim Bettinger, Feb 5th, 2009 | Knight Fellowships

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.

Endowing your local newspaper

by Jim Bettinger, Jan 30th, 2009 | Knight Fellowships

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).