Journalism Grants
Funding For:
Improving Local Health News
Recipient:
Poynter Institute for Media Studies with KFF
Grant Period:
Jan 03, 2023 - Jan 01, 2024
AMOUNT:
$20,000.00
Summary of the Project:
Partners Poynter and KFF are launching a pilot, virtual training program to help local and regional journalists become more skilled at using research to report on health.
About the Grantee:
The Poynter Institute for Media Studies is a global leader in journalism education and a strategy center that stands for uncompromising excellence in journalism, media and 21st-century public discourse. Founded in 1975, Poynter is the home of the Craig Newmark Center for Ethics and Leadership, the Pulitzer Prize-winning PolitiFact, the International Fact-Checking Network and MediaWise, a digital information literacy project.
KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation) is a nonprofit organization focusing on national health issues, as well as the U.S. role in global health policy. KFF serves as a nonpartisan source of facts, analysis and journalism for policymakers, the media, the health policy community and the public.