Communications/Media

Tony Haile, Former CEO of Chartbeat, Joins Media Development Investment Fund Board of Directors

Release Date:

04/12/2017

Tony brings more than a decade of experience at the cutting edge of digital media, in both analytics and content, to help guide MDIF’s investments in independent news businesses in countries with challenging media environments.

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Communications/Media

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Media Development Investment Fund

Supported by Mellon Foundation, Hybrid Publishing Platform Launches In Beta Form

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04/07/2017

With the launch, the press is moving to gather feedback and refine the platform as it enters the third and final year of a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Communications/Media

Education

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Ford Foundation, Tow Foundation and Others Launch $14M Fund To Support News Integrity

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04/03/2017

Ford Foundation, Tow Foundation and others help launch $14M global News Integrity Initiative administered by CUNY to improve online news literacy.

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Technology

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The Tow Foundation

Rita Allen Teams Up With Knight Foundation to Combat Misinformation

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03/13/2017

Working alongside Democracy Fund and the Rita Allen Foundation, Knight seeks ideas on “topics ranging from, but not limited to, the role of algorithms in news consumption, methods for separating facts from fiction, building bridges across...

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Geraldine R. Dodge and Silicon Valley Community Foundations Accepted to Knight Community Information Lab

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02/14/2017

Foundations can apply now through March 24 to be a part of the Knight Community Information Lab, an 18-month process to apply the essentials of human-centered design training to better understand residents’ information needs, then prototype...

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Silicon Valley Community Foundation

Fake News as a Real Opportunity

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01/23/2017

Celeste Ford, manager of media relations for Carnegie Corporation of New York, says philanthropic organizations are in a strong position to offer a wide range of credible and newsworthy information to audiences that are increasingly open to new...

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Insights

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Communications/Media

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

Stavros Niarchos Foundation Teams With Columbia Journalism School

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01/18/2017

At a press conference in Greece, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) presented a three-year grant for intensive summer journalism courses for younger as well as more experienced journalists and journalism graduates in a program that is exclusively...

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Ford, Blaustein, Levy and Overbrook Join Push to Protect Journalists

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01/18/2017

Months before actress Meryl Streep's plug at the Golden Globes for the Committee to Protect Journalists, Donald Trump was on the group's radar for his contempt for reporters and their bosses.

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Leon Levy Foundation

Sloan Foundation Gives Wikimedia Foundation $3M for Structured Data Project

Release Date:

01/12/2017

The San Francisco-based Wikimedia Foundation has announced a $3 million grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to make freely licensed images accessible and reusable across the World Wide Web.

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It’s Time to Define Our New Normal

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12/19/2016

Donita Volkwijn of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors writes that philanthropy could support organizations that are advocating for criminal justice reform and accountable journalism.