The Knight Center for International Media is dedicated to excellence in contemporary communication and journalism practice. The Center integrates its scholastic and creative energies in the service of communication and journalism. Communication professionals, journalists, researchers, media makers, technologists, artists and scholars collaborate at the Center to develop new media models and methods for empowering future leaders of the field.
The Knight Center for International Media is committed to communicating effectively across borders – of nations, of cultures, disciplines and ideologies. Its agenda is generated by the Knight Center Issues of Interest and carried out by endowed Knight Chairs, a program of Professional Residencies, and other projects. The Center is working towards bringing underrepresented issues of global significance to the public consciousness.
- The Knight Center for International Media will soon invite a short list of applicants to the Visual Communication and Cross-Cultural Communication Chair positions for on campus interviews.
- The School of Communication has allocated approximately 1,200 sq. feet of space to establish a state of the art convergence lab along with office and research space. The facility to welcome students and faculty in the Fall of 2007.
- The Knight Center for International Media will have a program of Resident Professionals. Journalists, documentary filmakers, non-fiction writers and photographers will have the opportunity to spend up to one year at the Center completing projects and interact with faculty and students.