Press Room

Presentation of Winners, May 14, Las Vegas

Contractor Sought to Market Digital Innovation Contest

Jun 20, 2008

For the 2009 round of the Knight News Challenge, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is looking to contract with a highly networked Web 2.0 marketing and account management freelancer to:

CNN.com Wins the Knight News Innovation EPpy Award

May 15, 2008

LAS VEGAS — CNN.com today accepted the Knight News Innovation EPpy for its interactive, international, engaging and effective web site. The award, announced as part of the EPpy Awards ceremony at the Interactive Media Conference & Tradeshow, is sponsored by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

Knight News Challenge 2008 Winners Announced at E&P/Mediaweek Interactive Media Conference

May 14, 2008

Award recipients include World Wide Web Inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee

LAS VEGAS — Sixteen ideas to fund innovative digital projects around the world were awarded $5.5 million dollars today from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web, accepted one of the awards for a project that will create a technology to give users more information about the origins and sourcing of digital content.