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Knight News Archive

• Google News founder joins board
  Silicon Valley technology leader to help further the mission of innovation, entrepreneurship and leadership in journalism

• May 26 event will showcase Fellows' work
  In short talks, the 2011 Knight Fellows will give a glimpse of the projects and ideas they've pursued this year.
• 2011-12 U.S. Knight Fellows selected
  Third class with new focus on journalism innovation, entrepreneurship and leadership

• Knight alum wins Pulitzer Prize
  Mike Keefe, '89, wins editorial cartooning award

• 2011-12 International Knight Fellows selected
• Fellows' start-ups in SXSW Accelerator
• Marines pull plug on Basetrack
  Teru Kuwayama's ('10) ground-breaking Basetrack project has abruptly lost its embedded status with a Marine battalion in Afghanistan.
• Storify gets $2M funding
  Burt Herman's ('09) service makes it easy for journalists to pull in content from social media services
• Knight Garage: open for business
  2010-11 Knight Fellows blog about prototypes, progress and the questions that drive them.
• 2010 Knight-Risser Prize entries now being accepted
  Award recognizes best in watchdog journalism, with new emphasis on innovation
  Support the Risser-Knight endowment drive
• Two journalists appointed to Knight Board of Visitors
• Remembering '77 Stanford journalism fellow Kay Mills
• 2011-12 Fellowship applications open
  Journalism is changing. So has the Knight Fellowships program. Find out how you can apply to be part of both transformations.

2010

• The Crisis in Environmental Watchdog Journalism
  Panelists at a November 2010 symposium at Stanford for the Knight-Risser Prize for Western Environmental Journalism are optimistic about the future of investigative reporting.
• Knight Fellows Switch from Sabbaticals to Hands-On Projects
  PBS MediaShift Q&A with Pam Maples
• 2010 Knight-Risser Prize winner announced
  Lewis Kamb, of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, wins the Knight-Risser Prize for Western Environmental Journalism.
• Stanford's Knight fellows aim to reinvent the news industry
• Grant for Environmental Journalism Prize announced
  A $220,000 challenge grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation will create the Knight-Risser Prize for Western Environmental Journalism.
• 2010 Knight Fellows' Projects Up-Close
  The first class of journalists in our new format talk about the joys, frustrations, lessons and results of their projects in innovation, entrepreneurship and leadership.
• Transforming the Knight Fellowships
  Changes in the program are continuing as we experiment, evaluate and adjust. A look at where we are and how we got here.

• Introducing the 2011 Knight Fellows
  Learn more about the 20 journalists from around the world and the projects they plan to pursue.
• 2010 Knight Fellow wins Knight News Challenge
  Teru Kuwayama has been awarded $202,000 for his project "One-Eight", which aims to improve news coverage of military operations in Afghanistan through using Marines' social networking and embedded journalists.
• Knight Fellowships 2.0 (Beta)
  2010 Fellows have created iPhone apps, developed new websites and experimented with mobile user-journalist collaboration models and tools
• Knight Fellows' projects: 3 Tales
  Journalism on the Map: A Case for Location-Aware Storytelling
  The Peril and Promise of the Semantic Web
  Hacks/Hackers: Bringing Journalists and Technologists Together
• Inventing Freelancing's Future
• Director discusses impact of changes
• Knight Fellows announced for 2010-11
  The selection includes the program's first journalists from Cuba and Armenia

• Pam Maples named Knight Fellowships Innovation Director
• News and Inclusion: Journalism and the Politics of Diversity
  Knight Fellowships co-sponsors Stanford symposium

• Risser Prize Symposium set for January 27
  Visualizing the Environment: Mapping Data and Telling Stories in Journalism, Scholarship and Environmental Policy

2009

• Remembering Andrea Lewis
  Andrea Lewis, '08 Knight Fellow, dies from apparent heart attack
• 2009 Risser Prize for Environmental Journalism awarded
  Hal Bernton, Justin Mayo and Steve Ringman of the Seattle Times win for their two-part series, "Logging and Landslides".
• Knight Fellowships seeks innovation director
• Free Press in Exile
  Yahoo! Fellowship supports journalists who are directly or indirectly under attack
• Neil Henry, '88 Knight Fellow named UC Berkeley Journalism School Dean
• U.S. Knight Journalism Fellows Named
  Twelve U.S. journalists have been awarded John S. Knight Fellowships to study at Stanford during the 2009-10 academic year.
• National Public Radio news chief Ellen Weiss gives 21st Knight Lecture
• Bruno Lopez named to Knight Fellowships Program Committee
• International Knight Fellows announced for 2009-10

• Latino media "Voices" film and panel
• Changes to the Knight Fellowships Program
• Knightline
  Jim Bettinger's blog about changes to the program and changes in journalism.
• Risser Prize award increased to $5,000
• 7th Knight Fellowships Reunion & Conference to be held July 9-12, 2009

2008

• Risser Symposium on Local Impacts of Global Warming
• Committee to Protect Journalists honors Ugandan Knight Fellow
• 2007 Knightfellow witnesses ceasefire & chaos in Georgia first hand
• 2008 James Risser Prize awarded
  Anton Caputo of the San Antonio Express-News wins for "Climate Change Hits Home"
• U.S. Knight Fellows announced for 2008-09
  Twelve U.S. journalists have been awarded John S. Knight Fellowships to study at Stanford during the 2008-09 academic year.
• Knight Director praise for El Faro on 10th anniversary
• Knight Fellowship director decries arrest of former fellow in Uganda

• Talking Points Memo founder delivers Knight Lecture
• Knight International Fellows announced for 2008-09
  Fellows include two journalists in exile and the program's first fellows from Belarus and Iraq
• Environmental Fallout of the Cold War
  2008 Risser Prize Symposium features Judy Pasternak of the Los Angeles Times

2007

• Knight Fellowships deputy to lead Journalism and Women Symposium
  Dawn Garcia has become president of JAWS, a national organization of women journalists

• Diane Middlebrook, former Program Committee member, dies in SF at 68
• Larry Whiteside, '88 Knight Fellow wins prestigious baseball writers' award
  Whiteside posthumous Spink award winner
• LA Times reporter wins 2007 Risser Prize
• 2 Knight Fellow alumni win prize for Latin American coverage
  Gary Marx (Chicago Tribune) and Maria Teresa Ronderos (Semana Magazine) honored
• Trailblazing Knight Fellow Larry Whiteside, '88
  Dead after long illness

• Knight alumnus on Pulitzer Prize-winning team
  Areddy member of the Wall Street Journal team that won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting
• Panelists think about future of print edition
  Stanford Daily story on Knight Symposium
• How Will We Pay for the Journalism We Need?
  Knight Symposium features David Talbot, Lauren Rich Fine and Lem Lloyd
• Search for former fellows by name
• 2007-08 Knight Journalism Fellows Announced
• Knight International Fellows announced for 2007-08
• Former Knight Fellow wins ASNE award
  Chicago Tribune staff reporter Barbara Brotman ASNE Distinguished Writing Award winner
• Former Knight Fellow Cole Campbell killed in Nevada SUV crash

2006

• Knight Fellowships hosts African American columnists' election discussion
• Yahoo! funds international journalism fellowship at Stanford
  Yahoo! Fellowship aimed at journalists from countries where there are restrictions on freedom of the press
• 2006 Risser Prize winner named
  Matt Jenkins of High Country News wins for "Squeezing Water from a Stone"
• Knight Fellows announced for 2006-07
• News in the Age of Bush, Blogs and Bombs
  Knight Ridder Washington editor speaks as part of Knight Lecture and Symposium

• Knight Fellowships director on the future of news
• Knight Fellows launch campaign in support of threatened Colombian TV journalist
• Knight Fellowships co-sponsors Mexican elections forum

2005

• Risser Prize Symposium held
  Water in the West: 21st Century Challenges in a 19th Century Legal Framework
• Threatened Colombian journalist to study at Stanford 2005-06
  Colombian journalist who was the target of death threats in his home country a senior research fellow
• Risser Prize winners announced
  Team from Rocky Mountain News awarded first James V. Risser Prize for Western Environmental Journalism.
• Knight alumni back jailed reporter's decision not to disclose her confidential sources
• Sixth John S. Knight Fellowships Reunion and Conference held July 7-10
• Knight Fellows announced for 2005-06
• Knight Fellowships establishes prize for Western environmental journalism
• Choices in an Age of 24/7 News
  Journalists discuss media credibility in wake of Newsweek story.
• Genetics, Neurobiology and Addiction: Where Are the Answers?
  Knight Fellowships co-sponsors symposium on the mechanics of addiction.
• New prize honors retired Knight director
  James Risser Prize will spotlight outstanding Western environmental journalism.

2004

• Of exit polls, presidential elections and Internet news
  The three U.S. network news presidents speak at a Knight Fellowships forum.
• Knight Fellows win two IAPA awards
• 2004-05 International Knight Fellows Chosen
• 2004-05 U.S. Knight Fellows Chosen
• Journalism in Latin America: Writing the Rules of the Game
  A talk about the responsibility of the journalist given as memorial to Clara Inés Rueda.
• Who Killed Daniel Pearl?
  Prominent French author and journalist Bernard-Henri Lévy discusses the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.

2003

• 2003-04 International Knight Fellows Announced
• 2003-04 U.S. Knight Fellows Announced
• When History Goes Hollywood
  "Seabiscuit" director, documentary filmmaker and a Stanford history professor discuss what happens to historical events when they become the subject of feature films