Knight Foundation is a national foundation with strong local roots. We invest in journalism, in the arts, and in the success of cities where brothers John S. and James L. Knight once published newspapers. Our goal is to foster informed and engaged communities, which we believe are essential for a healthy democracy.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

This tool was intended to help you and your organization understand and track your email newsletter metrics

• Media
• Graveyard
• Journalism

Georgetown has partnered with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to invest $30 million in a nonpartisan institute that helps policymakers and tech industry leaders address pressing issues related to technology, policy and ethics and make informed decisions on how technology is used to shape, produce and share information across platforms.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Tech or Digital Policy

An open guide promoting participatory urban planning

• cities
• guides

• Urban planning

The Civic Tech Field Guide is the world’s largest collection of projects using tech for the common good.

• democracy

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs

"A grant from the Knight Foundation to PBS News Hour, the Newstracker project has tasked itself with "developing a tool that combines online news content with engagement data from social media and other sources to help journalists and others better understand the scale, scope and shape of the misinformation problem." - Counteringdisinformation.org

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

The Reporters’ Lab is a center for journalism research in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. Our core projects focus on fact-checking, but we also do occasional research about trust in the news media and other topics.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

At Louder we've spent a lot of time asking people to give reach to what they believe deserves more attention. This page is dedicated to the lessons we've learned.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The civic tech field has expanded so widely in recent years, it’s hard to think of a major city or an area of civic life that these technologies don’t touch. In this dynamic environment, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has been a field leader, investing over $25 million since 2010 in projects […]

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the Knight Foundation gave the TED conference a $985,000 grant to help develop TED.com into an “action platform,” to help channel people moved by a powerful talk into taking meaningful action on the issues being raised

• The Tech
• Media
• Graveyard

The Quartz Bot Studio builds narrative experiences for messaging and voice platforms.

• The Tech
• Media
• Artificial Intelligence

Knight Foundation is inviting nominations for its inaugural Knight Public Spaces Fellowship.

• Fellowships

OpenBlock is a web application and RESTful service that allows users to browse and search their local area for "hyper-local news

• The Tech
• Media
• Graveyard

Building 21st Century Government with Technology Talent

• The People
• Fellowships
• Building inside government

The Drone Journalism Lab's Operations Manual is here to help your news organization with using flying robots to report news.

• Media
• Journalism
• Drones

Knight Foundation's seminal 2013 report on the growing field of Civic Tech

• reports

• Learn about civic tech
• Reports
• Defining the field