This grant will strengthen The New School’s ability to seize this moment of experimentation around the format and content of journalism, using their unique design thinking methodology. This grant will also provide funds to take this unique way of thinking around the country to regions we focus on through the Ecosystem News strategy.
Program Area: Public Square
University of Oregon Foundation
The purpose of this grant is to support the University of Oregon School of Journalism’s Agora Journalism Center to create workshops to strengthen the community of practice of Engaged Journalism. This grant builds on Knight’s larger grant that supports building a web-tool, with our emphasis on creating robust connections within the field.
The Eyebeam Atelier Inc.
This grant will support the development and testing of Viz Lab, a dashboard designed to track and visualize ‘memes’ carrying misinformation and fake news. Viz Lab’s dashboard tool will trace memes as they move throughout networks automatically. This will be a resource for newsrooms and the public.
City Bureau
This grant will support the development and expansion of the City Bureau Documenters Project which strengthens local media coverage and builds trust in journalism by creating opportunities for anyone to participate in the production of local journalism.
Montclair State University Foundation, Inc.
This grant is to support Montclair State University’s Center for Cooperative Media’s new Collaborative Journalism Fund and first open call.
Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism CUNY Foundation, Inc.
The Center for Community and Ethnic Media (CCEM) will undergo a strategic planning process and support new leadership as it develops into a national hub for ethnic media. CCEM will add depth and national scope to its efforts with news and information outlets serving ethnic, minority and immigrant communities.
National Press Photographers Foundation Inc
The National Press Photographers Foundation work as educators and advocates for the rights of visual journalists and freedom of the press. The grant is to support NPPF’s legal advocacy on behalf of journalists and their work to educate journalists about their rights and their safety.
National Association of Black Journalists
The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) is executing its new Strategic Plan 2017-2020. In an effort to help leverage opportunities from the wealth of information derived from the plan, this grant will support partial funding for operational support to secure NABJ’s infrastructure.
Montclair State University Foundation, Inc.
To support the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University Foundation, Inc.’s New Jersey News Commons project. As part of this grant, Center for Cooperative Media will support the local news ecosystem in New Jersey by providing various resources and support, such as training, collaboration support, and research.
Healthy Democracy Fund
The purpose of this grant is to continue our support of Healthy Democracy Fund as they enter a new phase, and seek to build out an online infrastructure for the replication and adoption of CIR in new areas with more ease.