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The Knight Foundation has given a $1.5 million grant to help NPR work with the Knight Digital Media Center as the non-commercial news organization increases its expansion into digital news. The investments intend to speed the news industry's digital transformation and accelerate NPR's transformation into a public media company.

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DarkWizard
Sept. 19, 2007, 12:21 p.m.
This sounds like an excellent opportunity for amateur journalists and media entrepreneurs to gain useful knowledge on the future of digital media.
I applaud the Knight Foundation for making such a commitment to the continued expansion of digital news programs.
Good post populist.
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Goppy
Sept. 19, 2007, 12:32 p.m.
I really liek NPR. Its very sympathetic to my Right Wing views.
I wuz listenin the other day and they had this guy on there who wanted to scrape the entire tax code and replace it with a sales tax.
Now the only difference between NPR and say FOX, is that NPR lets liberals contribute their views as well. Plus, they dont interrupt the spekaer and call them names.
Liek this no tax guy. He went on and on. And not only that, the interviewer asked him questions that allowed him to expand on his right wing visin.
Now ifn a liberal wuz on OReilly, he woulda been shouted downa and called a wakco.
Im glad we Conservatives has so many medias at our disposal.
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crespi
Sept. 19, 2007, 12:39 p.m.
NPR is pretty much Mainstream Media.
I quit a number of years ago when their morning "news" included commentary like- "Did you ever notice how WARM your coffee cup is in the morning?"
NPR has decided to back the corporate (neocon) position on most things as far as I can tell...
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ladylou4
Sept. 19, 2007, 9:15 p.m.
Money well spent! The Knight Foundation stands for quality when it comes to supporting media that inform and educate citizens. There is so much room for improvement when it comes to mainstream tv and radio news reporting, newspapers, and social news sites. Any journalist who can use multimedia effectively to write, visualize, produce, edit, inspire, educate, and inform the public will benefit from this grant.
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sezwho
Sept. 19, 2007, 11:44 p.m.
I for one hope this doesn't spell the end of public radio as we know it. For those who have been with NPR since day one we've seen it grow from a fledgling is-it-gonna-work radio experiment to a world respected news and entertainment organization.
While I don't agree with everything NPR broadcasts, it is the one news source I rely on for factual, honest news. FOX can't say that.
It just seems, in my opinion, that once any type of an organization gets going big, it loses its focus and original intent and gets bogged down on process. Let's hope this will not be NPR's case.