The Trust Project is developing tools and technologies to make quality news easy for the public to identify and technology platforms to surface.
Grant Type: Project
President and Fellows of Harvard College
This grant would contribute initial funding towards the creation of the position of Senior Practice Fellow in American Democracy at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Mozilla Foundation
The purpose of this grant is to support the Coral Project in the development and implementation of tools and platforms that encourage a culture of engagement in newsrooms. The grant will largely focus on expanding adoption of their tools in newsrooms, which will consist of training, outreach and work around shifting culture inside newsrooms to be more open to engagement.
Ethics and Public Policy Center, Inc.
To strengthen reporting and commentary by bringing together prominent journalists and columnists of all political stripes to learn about and discuss issues related to religion that cut across partisan boundaries.
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
This is a renewal grant to CJR’s United States Project to support experimentation in building local journalism capacity in the areas of collaboration, innovation, impact, and funding in target states.
Center for New Democratic Processes
The Your Voice Ohio Project will test, evaluate, and refine sustainable methods for engaging and serving communities through better, more participatory journalism. The Jefferson Center for a New Democratic Process will explore the complementary roles of public deliberation, community organizing, digital engagement, media collaboration, and new approaches in helping communities, and journalism, thrive.
U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, Inc.
In response to an alarming rise of divisive rhetoric aimed at Muslims in the United States, this grant supports outreach efforts by Congressional leaders to their Muslim constituents. To build greater understanding between Muslim-Americans and non-Muslim neighbors, an earned media campaign will be used to amplify the outreach activities.
American University
This grant is to support investigative reporting. It is part of a larger package of grants around investigative journalism that is meant to expand the critical capacity of nonprofit investigative journalism as a robust fourth estate. The grant will empower those newsrooms to pursue rigorous journalism that keeps the government accountable to the American people.
Research Foundation of the City University of New York
Professor Thomas Main of The City University of New York is writing a book about the roots and reach of the Alt-Right. This grant will support Professor Main’s ability to access social media data, to provide transcription support for his research, and to provide his salary during the time in which he conducts this research.
Mozilla Foundation
To support the Coral Project in the development and implementation of tools and platforms that encourage a culture of audience-driven storytelling in newsrooms. The grant will largely focus on expanding adoption of Coral Project’s tools in newsrooms, which will consist of training, outreach, and work around shifting culture inside newsrooms to be more transparent.