Seven new projects awarded $20,000 grants
The goal of the Challenge Fund for Innovation in Journalism Education is to hack the journalism curriculum using customized versions of the teaching hospital model. The fund supports universities to partner with local news organizations, and explore new ways of providing information to their communities. In 2020, seven projects were added to those funded.
Want more information? Learn about how the Challenge Fund works, or read the program FAQ.
Explore all 48 recipients
Over five funding cycles, ONA has awarded dozens of micro-grants to innovative educational projects. Explore the classes of recipients below.
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News and Updates
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Learning
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From the 2019 Accelerate: Local News Summit in Denver, Colorado, ASU Cronkite School’s Retha Hill presents on the Local News Landscape from an Academic’s Perspective.
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Learn fresh ways to collaborate, experiment and create content from educators who have gotten buy-in from universities and local communities on ambitious reporting projects. You’ll hear from winners of the … Learn about this subject.
Partners
The Challenge Fund for Innovation in Journalism has been generously funded by a consortium of funders, which includes the Democracy Fund, the Inasmuch Foundation, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Rita Allen Foundation, Robert R. McCormick Foundation and Scripps Howard Foundation.
For the 2020 round, we are grateful to Democracy Fund, Knight Foundation, the Inasmuch Foundation and Scripps Howard Foundation for their contributions.
Will these projects change the face of journalism education as we know it? We hope so. Our three previous rounds of grant winners are busy experimenting with teams of educators, technologists, researchers, students and media professionals, all excited about collaboratively exploring the possibilities.
For more information contact challengefund@journalists.org.