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The Local News Playbook: Creating Value for a Sustainable Future
Deep Insights
London; Miami: FT Strategies; Knight Foundation (2026), 105 pp.
"Drawing on global interviews with newsroom leaders, a cross-market survey of exemplary organisations, and FT Strategies’ work with more than 1,000 media businesses worldwide, the playbook identifies the core drivers that distinguish financially sustainable, community-rooted local news. It reframe
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Community Foundations & Media: Funding Data from 2009-2021
Philadelphia: Media Impact Funders; Knight Foundation (2021), 29 pp.
Gaining Ground: How Nonprofit News Ventures Seek Sustainability
Miami: Knight Foundation (2015), 24 pp.
"Nonprofit news organizations offer the potential to become part of the bedrock of a strong local news and information ecosystem. The field of nonprofit news, as illustrated by the 20 organizations profiled in this study, has continued to scale its impact and inch closer toward more sustainable busi
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"This report offers four case studies on how different foundations used information to improve the healthy functioning of their communities. The cases highlight the following: Why did each foundation support local media? How did it connect to their strategic priorities? What steps did they take to m
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Finding a Foothold: How Nonprofit News Ventures Seek Sustainability
Miami: Knight Foundation (2013), 52 pp.
An Evaluation of the Knight International Journalism Fellowships
Knight Foundation; International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) (2011), 49 pp.
"This report reviews the current status of outcomes of 23 Knight International Journalism fellowships that ran from 2007 through Spring 2010. The initial outcomes of 19 of these fellowships were documented in the September, 2009 report. This year, we review whether the outcomes of those 19 fellowshi
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Getting Local: How Nonprofit News Ventures Seek Sustainability
Miami: Knight Foundation (2011), 27 pp.
"This report is based on an extensive analysis of several nonprofit news sites conducted by Community Wealth Ventures (CWV), a management consulting firm that focuses on innovative approaches to the growth and sustainability of nonprofit organizations. Knight Foundation commissioned the review as pa
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Journalism and Media Grant Making: Five Things You Need to Know, Five Ways to Get Started
Miami; Philadelphia, Pa.: Knight Foundation; Penn Foundation (2011), 35 pp.
"Foundations are making more media and journalism grants not for the sake of media alone, but because they are finding they need a healthy news ecosystem in order to achieve their strategic goals." With this in mind, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the William Penn Foundation have pub
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Impact: A Practical Guide to Evaluating Community Information Projects
Miami: Knight Foundation (2011), 37 pp.
"This guide will take you through the essential steps for designing an evaluation of your community information project. These steps explain what to do and consider at different stages of the evaluation process: 1. Describe your project and identify your target audience. 2. Identify the evaluationâ€
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Seeking Sustainability: A Nonprofit News Roundtable. Summary & Report
Austin: Knight Foundation (2010), 81 pp.
Non-U.S. Funders of Media Assistance Projects
Athens, Ga.; Miami: University of Georgia, James Cox Center for International Mass Communication Training and Research; Knight Foundation (2005), 22, 70 pp.
The Media Missionaries: American Support for Journalism Exellence and Press Freedom Around the Globe
Miami: Knight Foundation (2004), 136 pp.
"When the Communist barricades collapsed in 1989, hundreds of Americans rushed to Eastern Europe and the former Soviet republics to spread the gospel of democracy. Among them were some of America’s most altruistic journalists, who hoped to midwife a newly independent press. Since then, the U.S. go
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