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Knight Foundation and MTV Digital Media Partnership

By Eugene Chan on 6 September 2007 - 10:35am

Marc Fest, over at "Knight Foundation":http://www.knightfdn.org, pinged me about a new digital media partnership that they have launched with "MTV":http://www.mtv.com/thinkmtv/. I've been "impressed":http://www.zerodivide.org/tags/knight_foundation with the way the Knight Foundation is catalyzing innovation and entrepreneurial thinking through their philanthropy.

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Interview with Marc Fest of Knight Foundation News Challenge

By Eugene Chan on 20 August 2007 - 4:23pm

!http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1438/1186682373_586f504e81_o.gif!:http://... Earlier this year, I wrote about the Knight Foundation's "News Challenge's":http://www.newschallenge.org "award winners":blog/eugene_chan/knight_foundation_announces_news_challenge_awardees and the significance of this new model of grantmaking.

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Knight Foundation announces News Challenge awardees

By Eugene Chan on 23 May 2007 - 10:30am

The "Knight Foundation":http://www.knightfoundation.org/ today announced the "award winners":http://www.newschallenge.org/winners/ of its innovation prize, "The News Challenge":http://www.newschallenge.org/. I've been following the challenge and was very curious to see who they would ultimately fund--the list of folks is downright impressive. What do I like about what the good folks at Knight did?

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