The Knight Foundation is broadening its funding mechanisms again with the addition of the Knight Prototype Fund. Announced yesterday at the MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference, the prototype fund will ...

False information or, say, “alternative facts” spread quickly. The Knight Foundation announced Monday that it’s investing up to $1 million toward projects developing and testing early-stage ideas to ...

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation announced funding Tuesday for 11 projects, including $35,000 each to This American Life and the Institute for Nonprofit News. The grants come from the ...

Of the 24 new projects welcomed this week by the Knight Foundation into its media-orientated Knight Prototype Fund at least two have Brooklyn ties. One is a smarter news aggregation tool and another ...

Journalism advocate Knight Foundation has announced eight new investments from its Prototype Fund, which will go toward early-stage projects related to media and journalism. The foundation is using ...

Sixteen winners of the Knight Prototype Fund are set to receive US$35,000 to help bring their ideas even closer to fruition. The Knight Foundation on Wednesday announced the most recent winners of its ...

Getting a grant is historically a very static process. You spend hours writing an application for a project you’re working on, and, if you’re lucky, you might get a grant several months later. Knight ...

The Knight Foundation today announced the latest winners of its Knight Prototype Fund. Eighteen projects will receive $35,000 to help them bring their concepts closer to fruition and one of the 18 ...

An app that helps Detroit residents use data about their city; a data-mining tool for reporters following breaking news; and a mobile app that will verify social media content are among the winners of ...

The UK's games industry has been given a shot in the arm thanks to a £4m investment designed to kickstart new projects and create jobs. The fund was revealed as the government finally diverged details ...