Knight Foundation's Michael Maness outlines the foundation's strategy for transforming journalism and media innovation, in a presentation at the Online News Association 2012 conference in San Francisco. Find out more at knightfoundation.org.

1. KNIGHT JOURNALISM
& MEDIA INNOVATION
@MICHAELMANESS

3. Knight Journalism and Media Innovation
Legacy Media New Media Journalism Social Media Post-Institutional
Scholarships Non-profit news Video Human Centered Design
Web Production Skills
Contextualization
J-Schools Prof. Orgs Crowdsourcing Mobile Media Fluency
Website creation
Endowments Open Source Sustainability SaaS Sensor Networks
Digital Understanding Hyperlocal
Contests Curation Interactive Design
Chairs Symposiums Web Tools We Media
Media Literacy Apps Visualization
Awards Multimedia Production Data Transparency
Digital Storytelling
Rewarded & Modeled & Embedding & Accelerating &
Trained Experimented Field-building Disseminating
Spontaneous
Institutions Individuals Intersections
Networks

4. WE ARE MOVING
FROM “FUNDING” :
FINANCING
FACILITATING
FUTURIZING

5. TRANSFORMING
ORGANIZATIONS TENT POLE CHALLENGE PROTOTYPE SCALE
NUMBER OF
4-6 1-2 30-40 70-80 10-15
GRANTS
$ UP TO 8M 10-15 M 8M 4M 4M
GRANT RANGE 1-4 M 5-15 M 150-300 K 5-50 K 250-500 K
RISK OF
LOW LOW/MEDIUM MEDIUM/HIGH VERY HIGH HIGH
FAILURE
IMPACT MODERNIZING ADDRESSING SOLUTIONS FOR OPEN GOVT SUSTAINABLE
KEY ORGS LARGE FIELD EMERGING CITIZEN TOOLS
AREAS FOR DEMOCRACY DEVELOPMENTS INNOVATIONS
NEEDS INFO ECOSYSTEMS

6. SYSTEMIC INNOVATION NETWORK
Adoption by
Texas Tribune
Northwestern Lab
Executes
USC Mobile Lab
Research
Design work in communities
Columbia Mobile
Research