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Major internet companies might want to push their own point of view, but can...
So we all heard Facebook’s view on the role that major companies play in deciding who gets what news. (Really, no need to say it twice.) But what does your average Mark or Campbell think? According to...
View ArticleWhat approaches are in play for fighting misinformation? Let us count the ways
In March 2017, the Knight Foundation, Democracy Fund, and the Rita Allen Foundation hosted a prototype open call for ideas on countering misinformation, which attracted 830 submissions. As described by...
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Here’s what Americans say it will take to rebuild their trust in the media
Figuring out just how to rebuild Americans’ trust in media is proving to be a tricky question. The Knight Foundation and Gallup shared their latest findings on mixing the perfect potion, after...
View Article$20 million is heading toward local news from the Lenfest Institute and...
Boom, baby: After initially joining forces to boost Table Stakes — their project to boost the nation’s metro newspapers — the Knight Foundation and the Lenfest Institute are each putting $10 million...
View ArticleVenture philanthropy for local news might not be as scary as it sounds
An incomplete list of attempts to finance local news: For-profit newspapers and TV stations siphoning advertising dollars Billionaire benefactors who don’t always play nice and/or play music...
View ArticleNewsonomics: Newspapers are shells of their former selves. So who’s going to...
Neil Chase knows the painful realities of managing and motivating a daily newsroom in 2018. “You can’t ask dedicated, veteran career journalists to completely change the way they work without...
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Teens support the First Amendment but largely don’t trust traditional media...
Have we lost the teachers but kept the high schoolers (for now)? It’s a tie. 49 percent of high school students and 51 percent of their teachers say they don’t trust the media to accurately and fairly...
View ArticleHeightening the CMS race: WordPress.com and News Revenue Hub devise a toolkit...
Around two-thirds of smaller and medium-sized publishers use WordPress as their CMS (that’s content management system for the newbies) — but how many publishers can say they’ve developed a sustainable...
View Article“Rebuilding a local news ecosystem”: Knight pledges $300 million to local...
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation will provide a whopping $300 million over five years to organizations including the American Journalism Project, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press,...
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“Local leads to trust”: The examples shared and pledges made at the Knight...
On the heels of its $300 million commitment to local news, free speech, and media literacy — and its commission-generated report espousing transparency and diversity — the Knight Foundation hosted its...
View ArticleNine local partners in Charlotte form a new reporting collaborative, with...
Continuing its efforts at building local journalism collaborations, the Solutions Journalism Network is partnering with the Knight Foundation to launch a nine-member collaborative focused on Charlotte,...
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When it comes to the consolidation of local news companies, American worry a...
Remember the (legitimate) spook that Deadspin video stitching together local Sinclair anchors around the country introduced? From creator Timothy Burke’s explanation: It was just a strange, spooky...
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How to experiment with local TV news: It’s really about choosing your own...
Choose Your Own Adventure books were a big hit. But what about choose your news? This isn’t quite personalizing algorithms on a news site’s homepage or platforms surfacing different items in your feed....
View ArticleThe business case for listening to your audience is still murky (but early...
Does audience engagement-focused reporting actually improve a news organization’s revenue? After $650,000, nearly three dozen newsrooms’ experiments, and one year later, it’s still unclear. Four major...
View ArticleWhy I’m starting a company to build out a new model for local news in the 2020s
Over the past decade here at Nieman Lab, I’ve reported a lot of news industry news. Today, I’m sharing some of my own. After months of work, I’m happy to begin introducing the new company that I’m...
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People might not trust local news that much after all — and the way to...
Local news is more trusted than national news, yes. But that’s largely because national news is not very trusted, especially by Republicans, according to a new study from the Knight Foundation and...
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Americans are more willing to pay for local news when they know local...
More than half of Americans believe that local news organizations are doing well financially, according to a new report published today by the Knight Foundation and Gallup. But if you tell them...
View ArticleCUNY’s Center for Community Media is expanding its reach beyond New York City
Community news outlets around the country scored a win today: CUNY’s Center for Community Media announced it is expanding from its New York City base to serve news organizations in communities of color...
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Americans say there are two main sources of COVID-19 misinformation: social...
A majority of U.S. adults think that misinformation about the the COVID-19 pandemic is a problem, according to survey results released Monday by Gallup and the Knight Foundation. And who are its...
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Two new studies about media and diversity can help newsrooms through their...
Two new studies this week couldn’t be more timely. Amid a reckoning with institutionalized racism in the news media industry, the Pew Research Center and the Knight Foundation conducted separate...
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