ICFJ Knight Fellowships

ICFJ Knight Roundup: ANCIR Investigates Africans Named in Panama Papers

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.

'Digital Fridays' Bring a Culture of Experimentation to The Hindustan Times

In 2015, ICFJ Knight Fellow Nasr ul Hadi was embedded at The Hindustan Times to drive the adoption of new digital tools and methods across departments, locations, hierarchies, even age groups.

Spain's El Diario Shows That Good Journalism Can Be Good Business

Amid all the bad news about business models for high-quality journalism, eldiario.es ("The Daily") in Spain shows that good journalism can be good business.

Its founder and CEO, Ignacio Escolar, just announced that the publication finished 2015 with revenues of US$2.6 million, up 33 percent on the year, and a profit after taxes of US$235,000.

Although the digital publication is free, its 14,500 "partners" (socios) pay at least US$66 a year to get access to the news

New Data Tools Simplify South Africa's National Budget Issues for Taxpayers

Ordinary people often struggle to get their heads around a country's budget, and they fail to understand what the government is doing with the hard-earned money they pay in taxes.

Code for South Africa set out to address this issue after South Africa's Minister of Finance presented his 2016 budget in Parliament on February 24.