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Fortnight is a non-profit, multimedia online project that documents promising members of the "millennial generation." By featuring 14 contributors each edition from 14 distinct disciplines, Fortnight showcases young people who will define the ideas of tomorrow. In doing so, we document an important shift: Millennials are the first generation to grow up with the Internet, yet will be the last to recall a time when it did not exist.
Fortnight produces work that acknowledges the past and anticipates innovation. Contributors are paired with mentors in their discipline, promoting inter-generational dialogue. Fortnight incubates the work of 56 Millennials each year.
Fortnight's logo is two pieces of movable type. In the fifteenth century, Johannes Gutenberg created mass media using only these small metal bits. The ability to print large volumes rapidly spurred the Renaissance, Reformation and scientific revolution.
In the twenty-first century, bytes matter. Online media allows citizens immense individual agency: the ability to produce, publish and partake. Each issue, Fortnight documents 14 promising members of the “millennial” generation. Born roughly between 1980 and 1990, these millennials came of age during a profound global shift from tools analog to digital.
Fortnight honors the past as it archives the future. As a documentary project, Fortnight publishes original work by emerging young leaders in a variety of fields, and produces intimate dialogues on their vocational formation. As a pedagogical project, Fortnight connects its contributors to established mentors in their tradition. And, as a movement, Fortnight strives to incubate new community.
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As social media helps topple autocracies around the world, our millennial contributors collaborate across borders. Only on Fortnight will a young Venetian video artist be set aside a young Vietnamese-American tribunal lawyer--the original work of both informed by ancient Rome. Staying multi-disciplinary allows Fortnight to nurture new networks around timeless affinities.
With a global recession imperiling young innovation, it is critical to revive the mentor model now. Mentorship is the strongest prospect for professional development for a generation left in the wake of the traditional career. Fortnight visibly connects its contributors to established luminaries, who graciously confer their wisdom to the next generation, and public at large. Fortnight is intended to be as inspirational as it is aspirational.
Importantly, Fortnight publishes only one piece a day. This pace helps ensure rigor and humility, giving our audience a consistent respite from digital noise. Every day, Fortnight is your destination for curated content from young minds with a common bond: commitment to precedent. Watch here as each cast of 14 reconciles their influences, struggles and achievements with the longer legacy of time.
With a global recession imperiling young innovation, it is critical to revive the mentor model now. Mentorship is the strongest prospect for professional development for a generation left in the wake of the traditional career. Fortnight visibly connects its contributors to established luminaries, who graciously confer their wisdom to the next generation, and public at large. Fortnight is intended to be as inspirational as it is aspirational.
Importantly, Fortnight publishes only one piece a day. This pace helps ensure rigor and humility, giving our audience a consistent respite from digital noise. Every day, Fortnight is your destination for curated content from young minds with a common bond: commitment to precedent. Watch here as each cast of 14 reconciles their influences, struggles and achievements with the longer legacy of time.
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Fortnight Journal is a project of the Fourteen Foundation Inc, a nonprofit public initiative devoted to reviving cross-generational mentorship by documenting and sustaining dialogue on traditional forms of practice.
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