• Knight Fellowships

Knight News Archive

• 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