ICFJ Knight Fellowships

ICFJ Knight Roundup: ANCIR Advisor Named Finalist for Global Shining Light Award

Each week as part of the Knight International Media Innovators blog, the ICFJ Knight team will round up stories focused on how their fellows are making an impact in the field. Find out more about the fellows' projects by clicking here.

GKillCity's "Counter-Cultural" Presence Redefines News in Ecuador

Take the deep contributor pool of the Huffington Post, add the tone and perspective of Global Voices plus the card-style contextual reporting of Vox, and you have GkillCity, a multimedia news platform in Ecuador.

The 2015 Media Party Did Not Disappoint This Year With These Four Tools

Every year since 2012, the Media Party, organized by ICFJ Knight Fellow Mariano Blejman and Hacks/Hackers-Buenos Aires, showcased the latest digital and data-driven technologies.

The 2015 Media Party did not disappoint.

ICFJ's staff scouted the event, attended by over 1600 media professionals and enthusiasts, and rounded up these exciting digital tools, some of which are already available and some that should be in newsrooms and users' toolkits in the coming months.

What we especially liked about these tools is that they are all open source, letting journ

Former Knight Fellow Named Innovator-in-residence at Florida University

Mariana Santos, Fusion’s interactive and animation director, has been named the new Knight Innovator in Residence at Florida International University’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

As an ICFJ Knight Fellow in 2013, Santos founded Chicas Poderosas (Powerful Women), a digital training program and networking opportunity to expose female journalists in Latin America to digital innovation.

Following the ICFJ fellowship, she also won a John S. Knight Fellowship at Stanford University, where she continued her work to promote women leaders in the field of media technology.