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New report highlights how Black media outlets center and amplify issues of importance to Black communities

Joshua BentonOctober 31, 2018

This new project wants to do for news trust what FiveThirtyEight does for polls: Aggregate a bunch of signals into something meaningful

“The goal is to make those signals more useful and to help platforms…make better, more informed decisions about ranking and ad purchases — which we hope will help drive both promotion and financial support to quality news and away from disinformation, misinformation, and junk.”

Laura Hazard OwenOctober 4, 2017

The News Integrity Initiative gives $1.8 million to 10 projects focused on increasing trust in news

“The flip side of disinformation is trust.”

Ricardo BiltonFebruary 23, 2017

The Ida B. Wells Society wants to build a better pipeline to connect news orgs with journalists of color

While investigative reporting is some of the most critical work journalists do, few of the people doing it are non-white.

Joseph LichtermanNovember 28, 2016

ProPublica’s collaborative reporting experiment takes on widespread voter fraud (and finds no evidence of it)

More than 450 reporters from 250 outlets across the country have published over 300 stories as part of the Electionland project.

Joseph LichtermanNovember 7, 2016

More than a thousand reporters and students are collectively covering voting problems on Election Day

Through the collaborative reporting project Electionland, outlets from across the country are coming together to report on issues like voter ID laws and long wait times.

Shan WangMarch 3, 2016

CUNY’s new Spanish-language journalism program, with big ambitions, opens for applications

Spanish-language journalism programs are few and far between in the U.S., but CUNY’s is well-positioned right out of the gate. One upcoming challenge: fundraising.

New Knight-Vice Innovators Fund winners are creating tools for global audiences

How much do you make? A CUNY grad student is collecting data on salaries in journalism

Sarah BartlettJuly 25, 2013

Ethnic media is more than a niche: It’s worth your attention

The head of the Urban Reporting Program at CUNY says that to ignore ethnic newspapers is to ignore a set of viable models that could inform the rest of the media business.

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