Journalism Grants
Funding For:
The Journalist's Resource
Recipient:
The Journalist’s Resource, a project of Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy
Grant Period:
Nov 27, 2019 - Dec 31, 2020
AMOUNT:
$40,000.00
Summary of the Project:
Leading up to and through the 2020 election, JournalistsResource.org will expand its health coverage with roundups and summaries of peer-reviewed research on health care and policy, as well as tip sheets with best practices for reporting on research.
About the Grantee:
For over a decade, The Journalist’s Resource (JR) has been a trusted source for journalists seeking to find and understand peer-reviewed research on a variety of topics. JR’s free weekly email newsletter now has more than 43,000 subscribers and some 58,425 people follow JR on X (formerly Twitter). As newsrooms become increasingly short-staffed, JR helps to bridge the gap between academia and journalism to encourage high-quality news reporting. JR has informed numerous articles from large and small media organizations. Everything on the JR site is published under a Creative Commons license, meaning newsrooms are free to share JR content on their own websites.