About the Center

The way we gather, create and share information is changing at a rapid, accelerating pace. Traditional news media are experiencing an incredible shift, driven by innovators from a variety of fields.

The Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship's goal is to help students and entrepreneurs in digital media. This will take several forms.

On the Arizona State University campus, we'll have classes in "Digital Media & Entrepreneurship" -- a survey of the cutting edge of new media plus an understanding of what it takes to be an entrepreneur. We'll also work with students, from across a variety of disciplines, on creating new products and services, with a focus on serving community information needs.

At the same time, the Center hopes to become a valuable resource for media innovators – to inform, inspire and connect entrepreneurs. We'll do that via this site, in workshops and through other methods. Stay tuned for developments in these arenas.

The center, a project of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University, has been funded by two leading donors in their respective fields: the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, which is aiming to sustain and improve journalism in the 21st Century, and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, which focuses on bringing the value (and values) of entrepreneurship to a wider swath of society.