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Jul 24, 2024 | 
newsatknight.substack.com | Jim Brady |with Mark Glaser
I am thrilled to announce that longtime investigative journalist and nonprofit board leader Marisa Kwiatkowski (Muh-riss-uh Quit-cow-skee) is joining our team as a new director of journalism at Knight Foundation. Her deep experience in investigative journalism gives her a keen understanding of the benefits and challenges of doing important watchdog work.
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
newsatknight.substack.com | Ashley Zohn |with Mark Glaser
At Knight Foundation, we strive to be a learning organization. We believe that research can have a significant impact when insights are widely shared. As Knight’s vice president of learning and impact, I’m excited to guest-author this newsletter because there have been some important research developments over the past few months I want to make sure you haven’t missed. In mid-February, we published two research projects from 2023.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
newsatknight.substack.com | Jim Brady |with Mark Glaser
There was a growing sense of optimism at last year’s Knight Media Forum (KMF). This year, there was a call to turn that momentum into action. New Knight president and CEO Maribel Pérez Wadsworth had her coming-out party in Miami, addressing the largest gathering in the history of KMF and taking questions from Axios senior media reporter Sara Fischer in a closing luncheon conversation. If you wanted to get to know Maribel and how she will lead, this was a great chance to do that.
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
newsatknight.substack.com | Jim Brady |with Mark Glaser
For 17 years, Knight Media Forum (KMF) has brought together funders from around the country to evangelize the importance of supporting local journalism. The progress toward that goal has been consistent, but this year is the one where it feels things have actually crystalized. That’s because Press Forward—the huge collaborative of funders (including Knight) that has committed $500 million over five years to boost local news—is coming into focus right as we meet this week.
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Jan 19, 2024 | 
newsatknight.substack.com | Jim Brady |with Mark Glaser
We know this will be a year of big change in local journalism – and at Knight Foundation. Everyone knows about the significant collaborative funding initiative called Press Forward that will ramp up in 2024. We also have new leadership at Knight, as Maribel Pérez Wadsworth starts as our CEO and president on Monday. And we are seeking a new team member to fill the large shoes of Karen Rundlet, now the CEO of the Institute for Nonprofit News.
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Dec 12, 2023 | 
newsatknight.substack.com | Karen Burkett |with Mark Glaser
When the massive funding coalition Press Forward recently announced its first set of local chapters, you may have been surprised to see Wichita, Kan., on that list. I wasn’t. That’s because leaders at Wichita Foundation have been investing millions in local news in the past five years, and have even helped kick-start three news startups with Tiny News Collective.
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Nov 30, 2023 | 
newsatknight.substack.com | Jim Brady |with Mark Glaser
Wednesday was both a sad and a proud day for Knight Foundation, as it became public that Karen Rundlet—our longtime senior director of journalism—will be leaving us at the end of the year to become the new CEO at the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN). While we will indeed miss Karen, we’re excited for this new chapter in her career. And it is one she so well deserves. Since arriving at Knight as a program officer in 2015, Karen has been a leader and innovator on the Journalism team.
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Nov 16, 2023 | 
newsatknight.substack.com | Jim Brady |with Mark Glaser
It’s easy to get caught up in the buzz of the $500 million-plus Press Forward initiative and its potential to transform local newsrooms across America. I mean, we’ve gotten caught up it in too; it’s been the subject of every one of these newsletters for weeks. But the past month has reminded me that part of what makes the work of newsrooms possible is support for legal services, freedom of the press, free expression and the safety of journalists. Without these protections, journalism cannot thrive.
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Sep 7, 2023 | 
newsatknight.substack.com | Jim Brady |with Mark Glaser
For most of 2023, many in journalism have known about a funding collaborative being assembled to accelerate the promising trends we’ve seen in local news in recent years. This morning, that collaborative – called Press Forward – was officially announced, with more than 20 donors joining to support local news with more than $500 million in investments over the next five years. Knight will contribute $150 million in new funds as part of this transformative effort.
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Aug 11, 2023 | 
newsatknight.substack.com | Jim Brady |with Mark Glaser
Independent local newspapers around the country are in trouble. They are the source of vital local information for communities, but they’ve suffered from sharply declining advertising, digital competition from social platforms, and rising print costs. When companies decide to sell their publications, they’re often stuck choosing between selling to a large corporate chain or shutting down, leaving their communities in the lurch.
