Journalism Grants

Funding For:

Beat Academy: Helping Journalists Cover Health Care 2024

Cost & Quality / Health Equity / Artificial Intelligence


Recipient:

Poynter Institute for Media Studies with KFF

Grant Period:

Jan 03, 2023 - Nov 30, 2024

AMOUNT:

$50,000.00

Summary of the Project:

The Kaiser Family Foundation, KFF Health News and Poynter will partner on webinars to explain the state of AI technology and show state and local reporters how they can report on the topic for their audiences.

About the Grantee:

The Poynter Institute is a global nonprofit working to address society’s most pressing issues by teaching journalists and journalism, covering the media and the complexities facing the industry, convening and community building, improving the capacity and sustainability of news organizations and fostering trust and reliability of information. The Institute is a gold standard in journalistic excellence and dedicated to the preservation and advancement of press freedom in democracies worldwide. Through Poynter, journalists, newsrooms, businesses, big tech corporations and citizens convene to find solutions that promote trust and transparency in news and stoke meaningful public discourse. The world’s top journalists and emerging media leaders rely on the Institute to learn new skills, adopt best practices, better serve audiences, scale operations and improve the quality of the universally shared information ecosystem.

The Craig Newmark Center for Ethics and Leadership, the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN), MediaWise, and PolitiFact are all members of the Poynter organization.

Support for Poynter and our entities upholds the integrity of the free press and the U.S. First Amendment and builds public confidence in journalism and media — an essential for healthy democracies. Learn more at poynter.org.


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