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Salzburg Global Seminar and John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Launch Salzburg Media Initiative - Press Release (May 7, 2008)
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The Strengthening Independent Media Initiative (SIM) is a multi-year initiative of the Salzburg Global Seminar, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and the Global Forum for Media Development, which aims to: bring greater strategic focus and coordination to the field of independent media development around the world; to improve the flow of financial support from private as well as public sources and promising new technologies into the media development sector; and to improve coordination between funders, trainers, and media development implementers.
Between 2008 and 2010 the Salzburg Global Seminar, the Knight Foundation, and the Global Forum for Media Development will convene a series of 6 leadership meetings designed to consider the use of digital tools and techniques to both decrease the waste and increase the flow of money into projects that improve journalism and the free flow of news.
Goals of the SIM Initiative Include:
- Better mapping of the field internationally, including flows of private and public funding
- Identification of promising independent media projects and strategies that deserve greater investment
- Increase interest and investment in the independent media development
- Demonstrate increased interest in and support for international journalism work among media development funders, especially new media investors and individual philanthropists
- Develop strategies and recommendations will be taken up and put into practice participants and the organizations/networks they represent
- Motivate new interest and involvement in independent media development
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The Salzburg Global Seminar Knight Fellowship Program
In partnership with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Salzburg Global Seminar awards twelve annual fellowships for our international programs. In 2009, six editors and news managers from the United States and six from outside the United States will be selected to participate in a five-day session of the Salzburg Global Seminar, and to participate actively in web-based activities before, during and after the session. For more information on the Knight Foundation Fellowships, please click here.
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The Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change
The Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change is an initiative of the Salzburg Global Seminar and the International Center for Media and the Public Agenda. The Salzburg Academy program brings together for three weeks every summer top undergraduate and graduate students from around the world. Faculty and deans from more than a dozen different universities across the globe participate in the Academy, giving lectures and acting as mentors to small teams of students. For more information on the Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change, please click here.
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Carnegie-Knight Deans Meetings
The Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education is a project of the Knight Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation, and seeks to change the way journalism is taught in the United States by working with select universities to better adapt journalism education to the challenges of a struggling news industry. The Salzburg Media Initiative will contribute to this process by holding an international meeting of the 12 American deans of the Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education and their international counterparts. In addition, the Salzburg Media Initiative will help facilitate the educator's leadership group ability to collaborate and advance journalism education internationally. For more information on the Carnegie-Knight Initiative, please click here.
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