Are there journalism projects Knight Foundation doesnt fund?
Yes. We don’t fund journalism scholarships or tuition for individuals. We don’t fund ongoing support for an individual media outlet. We don’t fund individual school media, because we already fund www.highschooljournalism.org, a scholastic journalism site that offers lesson plans, including a national radio curriculum; advice from pros; information on partnership grants with professional newspapers and television and radio stations; and the free hosting of online newspapers for any U.S. elementary, middle or high school. We don’t usually fund content, including individual documentaries, because it’s simply not possible to fund all the world’s content, and except for journalism about journalism, we don’t have the staff expertise to judge all possible documentary candidates. We also don’t fund fellowships, except for the ones in our current portfolio. Instead, we are now funding programs that use digital media to reach thousands of journalists. That said, we’ll break our own rules if some
