January 27, 2008 - Tia Lessin and Carl Deal’s Trouble the Water has been selected for top honors in the Documentary Competition of U.S. films at the Sundance Film Festival. Lessin was one of six ...
On January 8, 2008, Open Society Institute (OSI) announced the launch of a multimedia website documenting the social and economic toll of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. With numerous ...
The latest issue of the Foundation's twice-yearly magazine, Ford Reports, features a broad range of efforts to strengthen public interest values in our ever-more-dynamic media world.
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation awarded Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society a $4 million endowment gift. The Berkman Center is a research program ...
The Ford Foundation announced the appointment of Jenny Toomey, Executive Director and Founder of the Future of Music Coalition, as Program Officer for Media and Cultural Policy effective January ...
[Source: centerforsocialmedia.org] “The Ford Foundation’s Future of Public Media initiative brings together an alliance of leading nonprofits whose work forges the public media structures and ...
The Funding Exchange’s Media Justice Fund announced that it has been awarded $1.5 million over two years by the Ford Foundation. The funds go to support grantmaking in the project’s National ...
Top New Media Figures Have a Place to Experiment And Look at Changes in Journalism and Community News PBS and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation today debuted the MediaShift Idea Lab blog ...
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and MTV have announced the Knight News Challenge "Young Creators Award," a new digital journalism grant program for young people age 25 and ...