Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation Announces
$1.8 Million in Grants to Journalism Organizations

 

(Oklahoma City) --- Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation announced today the distribution of $1.8 Million in grants to 18 journalism organizations nationwide.

 

Founded by Edith Kinney Gaylord, Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundations mission is to invest in the future of journalism by building the ethics, skills and opportunities needed to advance principled, probing news and information.

 

Organizations awarded grants from Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation include:

           

• $400,000 for the Challenge Fund for Journalism VI, a grant program sponsored by Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation, the Ford Foundation and the McCormick Tribune Foundation. The program, for organizations working in youth media, ethnic media and investigative reporting, seeks to enhance organizational capacity and readiness for fundraising and supports participant organizations with a matching challenge grant to assist in attracting new donors and making important organizational changes.

           

• $300,000 to the Oklahoma Museum of History for staff support and server space to convert Oklahomas historic newspapers to digital files for online access.

           

• $150,000 to Brandeis University for the Innocence Project, an investigative reporting center, and for Ethics & Justice Investigative Journalism Fellowships, an impact journalism model to deliver well-documented investigative reporting in the public interest.

           

• $150,000 to iFOCOS for operating support and for Pitch It, a competition to identify promising early-stage innovative media projects.

           

• $134,000 to George Washington University for the 2009-2010 series of the Kalb Report, four forums that will be held at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.

           

• $100,000 to Institute for Justice and Journalism for Immigration in the Heartland, a project which includes a 4-day conference at University of Oklahoma, funding for in-depth reporting projects, and building an online network of journalists and immigration experts.

 

• $100,000 to Washington Center for Politics and Journalism in support of the Politics & Journalism Semester, a twice-yearly program that brings college journalists to Washington to learn about politics while they intern in major news bureaus.

           

• $87,000 to Student Press Law Center for the Attorney Advocate program and for technology to place The Law of the Student Press online for widespread public access.

           

• $60,000 to University of California Berkeley Campus for the multimedia training program for professional journalists.

           

• $50,000 to Pundit Productions in support of Capitol News Connection, providing localized and interactive reporting from Congress.

           

• $50,000 to Youth News Service Los Angeles Bureau in support of LA Youth, an independent newspaper written by and for teens.

           

• $45,000 to Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press for a Freedom of Information Fellowship, an Open Courts Compendium and an Internet Legal Handbook.

           

• $40,000 to Oklahoma Newspaper Foundation for an internship program to place college journalism students into newsrooms of Oklahoma's community newspapers.

           

• $40,000 to American University for J-Lab: the Institute for Interactive Journalism's Interactive Journalism summits, training sessions, and e-learning module Newspaper in a Box on how to launch a multimedia community news site.

           

• $30,000 to North American Street Newspaper Association for capacity building in the second year of a three year strategic plan.

           

• $30,000 to Willamette University for International Debate Education Associations Debatepedia, an encyclopedia of debates and pro and con arguments.

 

• $25,000 to Independent Arts & Media for Newsdesk.org's News You Might Have Missed, tracking national and global issues through the local and regional lens.

           

• $15,000 to Freedom of Information Oklahoma for First Amendment Conference speaker expenses and honorarium.

 

For more information on Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation please visit www.journalismfoundation.org or call 405-604-5388.

 

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