{"id":17772,"date":"2020-06-22T14:52:45","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T19:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/?p=17772"},"modified":"2020-06-22T14:53:06","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T19:53:06","slug":"knight-foundation-has-selected-soul-pitt-media-as-a-recipient-of-a-20k-grant-for-a-new-publishing-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/knight-foundation-has-selected-soul-pitt-media-as-a-recipient-of-a-20k-grant-for-a-new-publishing-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Knight Foundation has selected Soul Pitt Media as a recipient of a 20K grant for a new publishing platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kf.org\/cms20winners\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-17773\" src=\"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/knightfoundation.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"601\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/knightfoundation.jpg 816w, https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/knightfoundation-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/knightfoundation-768x469.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To help news organizations better serve their communities with quality news and information, the <strong>John S. and James L. Knight Foundation<\/strong> today announced the first 24 recipients of support from its $2 million, three-year technology initiative to strengthen digital publishing solutions in newsrooms.<\/p>\n<p>After a competitive application process, <strong>the first cohort of 24 newsrooms have been selected to receive $20,000 in grants<\/strong> for publishing tools that will improve distribution, community engagement and revenue opportunities, such as digital subscriptions and membership. The first group includes a mix of nonprofit news organizations, small commercial community newspapers and new digital upstarts.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 24 selected newsrooms, 58% are nonprofit organizations; 58% are led by or serve communities of color; and 42% are committed to delivering local journalism. Learn more about each newsroom below. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/kf.org\/cms20winners\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/kf.org\/cms20winners<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To help news organizations better serve their communities with quality news and information, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation today announced the first 24 recipients of support from its $2 million, three-year technology initiative to strengthen digital publishing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/knight-foundation-has-selected-soul-pitt-media-as-a-recipient-of-a-20k-grant-for-a-new-publishing-platform\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"xn-wppe-expiration":[],"xn-wppe-expiration-action":[],"xn-wppe-expiration-prefix":[],"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"aioseo_notices":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 19:10:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17772"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17775,"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17772\/revisions\/17775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}