Northwestern students from any school who are interested in media and technology are encouraged to get involved with Knight Lab. Interested students should sign up for the community Google Group to keep up with our public activities and other opportunities. We have two weekly events which are a great way to get started:
- Open Lab Nights (Tuesdays, 7-9 p.m.)
- Lab Lunch (Thursdays, 11:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.)
Students who show initiative and commitment to developing their skills may be invited to join the Lab’s Student Fellowship program. Fellows make key contributions to the Lab’s technology, editorial coverage, and educational efforts. Students who have been Knight Lab fellows regularly go directly from Northwestern to the world’s leading newsrooms and technology companies, including NPR, New York Times, Washington Post, Medium, Amazon, Los Angeles Times, and others.
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New York Times columnist David Brooks calls on Americans to transcend their differences
New York Times columnist David Brook is calling on Americans to focus on their relationships instead of individual happiness. “We are all infected by a culture, a culture of hyper-individualism,” Brooks told a crowd Wednesday during a keynote address at the Knight Media Forum in Miami. Brooks, who is a PBS NewsHour regular, said there are signs that more people are experiencing loneliness and that leads to divisions and “tribalism.” But Brooks said if people will focus on joy—created by relationships—we will be “pointing in the right direction.
Why the Knight Foundation president thinks we’re living through the biggest disruption since Gutenberg and the printing press
the First Amendment is fairly clear. It says, “Congress shall make no law abridging the freedoms of speech, press, religion, assembly, a redress of grievance.” Five phenomenal rights. But they also don’t say, well, what happens if it is not Congress? What happens if it’s Google? … Think about it. Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook have more ability to control what we know or think we know than anything in history. Than anyone in history. Than any government has ever had.