Craig Alexander Newmark is an American internet entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the founder of the classifieds website Craigslist. Prior to founding Craigslist, he worked as a computer programmer for IBM, Bank of America, and Charles Schwab. Newmark served as chief executive officer of Craigslist from its founding until 2000. He founded Craig Newmark Philanthropies in 2015.
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, also known as the Knight Foundation, is an American non-profit foundation that provides grants for journalism, communities, and the arts.
The Poynter Institute for Media Studies is a non-profit journalism school and research organization in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States. The school is the owner of the Tampa Bay Times newspaper and the International Fact-Checking Network. It also operates PolitiFact.
The Radio Television Digital News Association, formerly the Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA), is a United States-based membership organization of radio, television, and online news directors, producers, executives, reporters, students and educators. Among its functions are the maintenance of journalistic ethics and the preservation of the free speech rights of broadcast journalists.
The Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York is a public graduate journalism school located in New York City, New York, United States. One of the 25 institutions comprising the City University of New York, or CUNY, the school opened in 2006. It is the only public graduate school of journalism in the northeastern United States.
The Online News Association (ONA), founded in 1999, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization located in Washington D.C., United States. It is the world's largest association of digital journalists, with more than 2,000 members.
Dori J. Maynard was an American author and journalist. She was the president of the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education in Oakland, California and the co-author of Letters to My Children, a compilation of nationally syndicated columns by her late father Robert C. Maynard, for which she wrote introductory essays.
The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) is a UK-based research centre and think tank founded in 2006, which operates Thomson Reuters Journalism Fellowship Programme, also known as the Reuters Fellowship.
The Texas Tribune is a nonprofit politics and public policy news website headquartered in Austin, Texas. Its stated aim is to promote civic engagement through original, explanatory journalism and public events.
The Institute for Nonprofit News (INN) is a non-profit consortium of nonprofit journalism organizations. The organization promotes nonprofit investigative and public service journalism by supporting its members and the nonprofit news industry as a whole.
The Knight-Bagehot Fellowship Program in Economics and Business Journalism was created at Columbia University in the City of New York in response to the growing public interest in financial news and the increasing demand for trained editors and reporters to cover the field of business and economics. The Fellowship offers free tuition plus a $60,000 stipend.
Cristina Alesci was the Chief Corporate Affairs Officer at Chobani until March 2022. Until December 2020, she was a CNN and CNNMoney correspondent based out of the network’s New York bureau. She covers breaking news for the network as well as financial fraud and controversies facing major companies. Her investigative series focuses on public policy issues of the 2016 election cycle, food production, and documenting the early struggles of successful leaders.
Vera Files is a non-profit online news organization in the Philippines, known for its institutionalized role in fact-checking false information in the Philippines, and as one of the news organizations most prominently targeted by intimidation and censorship due to its critical coverage of the Philippine government. It is part of the International Fact-Checking Network of the Poynter Institute and is one of Facebook's two Philippine partners in its third-party fact-checking program.
First Draft News was a project "to fight mis- and disinformation online" founded in 2015 by nine organizations brought together by the Google News Lab. It included Facebook, Twitter, the Open Society Foundations and several philanthropic organizations. In June 2022, First Draft announced it would be shutting down, with its mission continuing at the Information Futures Lab.
Got Your 6 is a national network of veteran service providers, managed by the Bob Woodruff Foundation. In 2018, the Bob Woodruff Foundation acquired veteran nonprofit Got Your 6 and relaunched the brand in 2020 as the organization’s “enduring commitment to the veteran community.” The Got Your 6 Network includes community-based collaborative initiatives encompassing thousands of veteran-serving organizations, as well as individual partner organizations and programs. Through Got Your 6, the Bob Woodruff Foundation provides funding as well as no-cost learning and networking opportunities to help partners “achieve the maximum positive impact on their local veteran and military community.” Got Your 6 also produces public awareness campaigns to show support for the military and veteran community and educate the public on ways to support veterans.
Sandra Mims Rowe is an American journalist. She is the former editor of The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk, Virginia, and of The Oregonian, in Portland, Oregon. She was one of the few women editors of metro newspapers in the 1980s, and was the first woman editor at The Virginian-Pilot and The Oregonian. She was the second female president of the American Society of News Editors, a decade after Kay Fanning, the editor of The Christian Science Monitor, was the first.
The Trust Project is a complex international consortium involving approximately 120 news organizations working towards greater transparency and accountability in the global news industry, including The Economist,Folha de São Paulo, The Globe and Mail, the Independent Journal Review, Mic, Italy's La Repubblica, Il Sole 24 Ore, and La Stampa. The Project was started in 2014 by Sally Lehrman, a journalist and former director of Santa Clara University's journalism ethics program at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics and launched in November 2017.Richard Gingras, head of Google News is a co-founder. The Project is funded by Craigslist founder Craig Newmark’s Philanthropic Fund, Google, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Democracy Fund, the Markkula Foundation and Facebook.
The City is a non-profit news organization based in New York City that extensively covers all the boroughs. It digitally launched in April 2019 to address the growing deficit in civic information and accountability created by a shrinking local news landscape and aims to promote civic engagement through in-depth community reporting. Their slogan is Reporting for New Yorkers and mascot is a pigeon named Nellie, named after Nellie Bly.
Fara Warner is an American author, journalist and speaker known for her reporting on marketing and consumer trends. Warner has held executive positions at Dow Jones & Company and The Wall Street Journal where she was celebrated for her role in creating branded content and revenue opportunities. She is the co-founder of A Picture's Worth, a journalism start-up and a leadership ambassador with Take The Lead, a nonprofit concerned with women's advancement.
Report for America (RFA) is a national service program that places emerging journalists in local newsrooms to report on under-covered topics and communities across the United States. It was launched in 2017 as an initiative of The GroundTruth Project, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit journalism organization that trains and supports emerging journalists across the world. RFA was co-founded by Steven Waldman, who currently serves as its president, and Charles Sennott, the chief executive officer and editor-in-chief of The GroundTruth Project. The program is rooted in a 2015 report written by Waldman, "Report for America: a community service-based model for saving local journalism."
