The Knight Law and Media Scholars Program’s base lies in the Law School's leadership in the relevant field. The scholars for the program will be picked from among the Yale J.D. and graduate law students. The Program envisages raising the number of law graduates prepared to become media leaders.

Apart from the law and media courses, the Program will also include scholars, research fellowships, summer internships, career counseling, and an annual training program for mid-career journalists. An additional speaker series and an organization of students concentrating on law and media will be the additional features in the Program.

The program's mid-career project will be an annual training workshop sessions in the Law School for a wide range of working journalists and other interested scholars.  These workshops will deal with latest issues in law and media and provide a platform for journalists, scholars, and lawyers to work and interact together.

Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh said that the program would build upon Yale’s “history of producing leading legal journalists, First Amendment lawyers, and media entrepreneurs uniquely able to explore the common intellectual space where the law and media intersect."

Yale alumnus Steven Brill, a 1975 graduate of the Law School class, and founder of Court TV and The American Lawyer magazine, will join Knight Foundation as co-investor.  Besides pledging his support to this program, Brill had also recently donated $1 million to Yale College to introduce journalism into undergraduate classes.

Apart from supporting a master’s degree program for midcareer journalists at Yale, Knight Foundation also established the Knight Chair in Constitutional Law and the First Amendment, a chair held by Professor Jack M. Balkin.