Eric Newton is vice president of the journalism program for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Since 2001, he has developed more than $250 million in grants to advance quality journalism, freedom of expression and media innovation worldwide. Before Knight, Newton was founding managing editor of the Newseum. Much of his original work as its chief content creator remains in the world’s first major museum of news in Washington, D.C. Newton began his journalism career as a newspaper editor in Northern California. At the Oakland Tribune, he was managing editor under owners Bob and Nancy Maynard, when the newspaper won 150 journalism awards, including a Pulitzer Prize.