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 16, 2020 - Dec 31, 2021
AMOUNT:
$40,000.00
Summary of the Project:
Journalist’s Resource will produce resources to improve coverage of scientific and health policy research in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and related public health crises.
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.