“We’ve been told repeatedly that the amount of funding that came from SAGE was going to be the same for the long term every year and we were responsible for raising additional revenue…and we’ve done that.”
$660,000 to support a 50-member network will go to Solutions Journalism Network and Report for America for one year from a trio of place-based foundations.
“The right approach is almost always giving up the illusion of control funders think they have and trusting that people closest to the work know what’s best.”
“It came out of a sense that there were some really important topics with impacts on human beings that didn’t get as much coverage in traditional journalism sections and pieces.”
“Memphis is a microcosm of what’s going on in a lot of urban centers around the country. It’s an extreme example of what happens when things go wrong and and aren’t fixed for a long time.”
Wang, Shan. "“Fierce urgency of now”: This year-long project aims to fill the gap on inequality reporting in Memphis." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 18 Oct. 2017. Web. 18 Sep. 2019.
APA
Wang, S. (2017, Oct. 18). “Fierce urgency of now”: This year-long project aims to fill the gap on inequality reporting in Memphis. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved September 18, 2019, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2017/10/fierce-urgency-of-now-this-year-long-project-aims-to-fill-the-gap-on-inequality-reporting-in-memphis/
Chicago
Wang, Shan. "“Fierce urgency of now”: This year-long project aims to fill the gap on inequality reporting in Memphis." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified October 18, 2017. Accessed September 18, 2019. https://www.niemanlab.org/2017/10/fierce-urgency-of-now-this-year-long-project-aims-to-fill-the-gap-on-inequality-reporting-in-memphis/.
Wikipedia
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