Showing posts with label Carnegie Corp.. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Carnegie Corp.. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
It's OK to Fail
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Susan King of Carnegie Corp. provides some refreshing insight from a media funder on when grants fail in a recent Carnegie quarterly newsletter . Her article, "Media Grantmaking Strategies: When the Impact is in Question," analyzes a grant she ushered in early in her tenure at Carnegie to improve coverage of Carnegie-funded initiatives in national media.The piece looks at the Foundation's goals, the nonprofit's goals and operating environments under which the grant was made. Ultimately, Carnegie's justification for investing wasn't realized. But the funder still learned a valuable lesson about making grants.
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Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Shunning Newsprint...And the News
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Today's young Americans are "estranged from the daily newspaper and rely more heavily on television than on the Internet for their news," according to a newly released study "Young People and News" from the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University.
Though most experts agree that young people pay less attention to the news than their counterparts 20 or 30 years ago, the study comes at a time when many experts disagree on how much attention today's teens pay to current events and news. Some argue that young people are harnessing the Internet to become civically engaged in ways not seen in previous generations. This study - funded by the Carnegie Corp.- seems to contradict that conclusion. The researchers surveyed 1,800 randomly sampled people of all ages and found that teens don't make following news a regular part of their day.
Check out the full report for yourself: http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/presspol/carnegie_knight/young_news_web.pdf
Though most experts agree that young people pay less attention to the news than their counterparts 20 or 30 years ago, the study comes at a time when many experts disagree on how much attention today's teens pay to current events and news. Some argue that young people are harnessing the Internet to become civically engaged in ways not seen in previous generations. This study - funded by the Carnegie Corp.- seems to contradict that conclusion. The researchers surveyed 1,800 randomly sampled people of all ages and found that teens don't make following news a regular part of their day.
Check out the full report for yourself: http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/presspol/carnegie_knight/young_news_web.pdf
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