By Betsy Model, President A media innovation contest is accepting project proposals that utilize open-source technology and distribute news in the public interest. The deadline for submissions is December 1 and winners will be announced in June 2011. The Knight News Challenge, sponsored by the Knight Foundation, funds marketing and Read more…
By Betsy Model, President Applications are invited for the 2011/12 Reuters Fellowship program at Oxford University for mid-career journalists. Applicants must have a minimum of five years’ experience in any branch of journalism and good spoken and written English. Application deadline: February 1, 2011. The program enables visiting journalists from Read more…
By Betsy Model, President John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships program open for applications for the 2011-12 academic year The John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships is a program for accomplished journalists and journalism entrepreneurs who spend an academic year at Stanford. Each year, 12 U.S. and eight international journalists are selected Read more…
By Betsy Model, President Students who get that their future education and career options can be directly affected by the learning and networking they do on the side are the really, really smart ones…like new student member Charlotte Smart. Charlotte, a junior at Santa Fe Secondary School, speaks French and Read more…
By Betsy Model, President Each year the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights presents an award to the book that “most faithfully and forcefully reflects Robert Kennedy’s purposes – his concern for the poor and the powerless, his struggle for honest and even-handed justice, his conviction that Read more…
By Betsy Model, President The International Women’s Media Foundation is accepting applications for its Women Entrepreneurs in the Global Digital News Frontier grant program. The initiative is funded by the Ford Foundation. The program is open to United States-based women journalists proposing to use digital media in innovative ways to Read more…