Journalism Grants
Funding For:
The Journalist's Resource
Health Care Management / Affordability
Recipient:
The Journalist’s Resource, a project of Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy
Grant Period:
Jun 02, 2025 - Jun 02, 2026
AMOUNT:
$30,000.00
Summary of the Project:
The Shorenstein Center will produce a series of tip sheets, research roundups, webinars, and training materials to improve journalists’ ability to understand scientific and health policy research on topics that include health care management, hospital consolidation, and affordability.
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.