General operating support for the Student Press Law Center.
Program Area: Public Square
Journalism & Women Symposium
The first $80,000 installment is to support Grantee’s general charitable, educational, and/or scientific purposes as described in Grantee’s charter documents.
The second $40,000 installment is to empower the Grantee to increase and improve its organizational diversity, equity, and inclusion practices through various activities, including but not limited to collecting demographical and attitudinal data, a series of DEI-centered talks throughout Grantee’s regional chapters, and continued partnership with outside experts on diversity, equity, and inclusion.
American Press Institute
The Trusting News project works with newsrooms to develop, test, and implement new practices and behaviors that make reporting more transparent and trustworthy. The Trusting News project will build a network of transparency coaches and trainers who will dramatically increase the project’s ability to make change across the industry.
Poynter Institute for Media Studies, Inc.
The purpose of this grant is to fund the construction of an e-learning course focused on educating journalists on the legal issues related to libel and defamation, in an effort to mitigate risk and help reduce the likelihood of legal incidents. The training will cover multiple parts of the newsgathering and dissemination process, as well as what to do should one encounter an incident or claim.
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
To support research and writing on the topic of platform accountability at the Rutgers Institute for Information Policy & Law.
Northeastern University
To support the efforts of Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute in conducting research around the role of misinformation on social media platforms during the 2018 election season and publishing relevant findings.
Cato Institute
Cato’s DeepBills Project will serve as a platform to decode the legal language of bills, allowing journalists and others to identify what parts of government is actually being amended.
AmericaSpeaks
Face the Facts USA will deliver provocative facts about big issues to help Americans debunk myths, hold better conversations, get involved, and make choices as smarter citizens around the 2012 election.
Center for Public Integrity
The Center for Public Integrity will launch an anti-deception initiative, called Consider the Source, that aims to uncover how campaigns and consultants manipulate the public using a flood of secret money.
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
The News Measures Research Project will provide a foundation for the Democracy Fund and the field in general to assess the state of national and local journalism content, audience needs at a local level and the state of the local news media infrastructure.