Meet the New Media Makers
– and the Foundations that Make their News Sites Possible
Grant activity, to date:
•
$185,721,432
•
274
foundations
•
146
news projects
•
775
grants
•
23
states
From investigative journalism projects to ethnic news services, from community news venues to niche reporting sites, new media makers are launching news and information initiatives that are increasingly attracting support from community, family and other foundations.
From 2005 to today, J-Lab has tracked
$185,721,432
million in grants awarded to at least
146
news projects in
23
states and the District of Columbia. In the searchable database below, you can find these grants by the name of the foundation that issued funding, by the name of the news project that received grant support, or by state.
This database includes funding only for news and information projects. It does not include funding for public broadcasting programs, for the underwriting of documentaries, for journalism training or student news services.
Also be sure to take a look at Chuck Lewis and the Investigative Reporting Workshop's report on New Journalism Ecosystems around the country.
How to add information
If you’ve awarded a grant or received a grant for a news initiative and it’s not in this database, please tell us and we’ll add it.
1Matching grants for Knight Community Information Challenge (21 sites). 2These seven foundations work as a collaborative under the Florida Health Policy Center. 3These funds were given through the Fund for the City of New York. (Women’s eNews and the New York Cmty Media Alliance have received corporate funding, which is not included.) 4Projects are directly funded by the sponsoring foundation.
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The Knight Community News Network is an initiative of J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism. J-LabTM is an incubator for innovative, participatory news experiments and is a center of American University's School of Communication in Washington, D.C. KCNN is funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
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