“Breaking the News” Documentary by Grantee The 19th Available on Streaming Services Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 8/1/2024 on 8/1/2024 A documentary about journalism grantee The 19th has just been released on streaming platforms, chronicling the nonprofit newsroom’s launch, triumphs and challenges. “Breaking the News” features deliberations around and reporting on key major news events such as the coronavirus pandemic, the killing of Breonna Taylor, and the overturning of Roe v. Wade. The documentary premiered …
Journalism Grantee FRONTLINE Wins Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 3/20/2024 on 3/20/2024 FRONTLINE documentary film 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL, made in partnership with the Associated Press (AP), won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film at the Oscars ceremony in March 2024. 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL tells the important and powerful story from the perspective of an AP team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged …
American Mosaic Journalism Prize Awarded to Dara T. Mathis and Tamir Kalifa Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 2/6/2024 on 2/6/2024 The Heising-Simons Foundation is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023 American Mosaic Journalism Prize: Carvell Wallace and Cerise Castle.
Multi-Donor Initiative to Award More than $500 Million to Revitalize Local News Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 9/7/2023 on 9/7/2023 The Heising-Simons Foundation is joining a coalition of 21 other donors to create Press Forward, a new national grantmaking initiative with the goal to strengthen local news and information with a combined more than a half-billion dollars over the next five years.
Brian Eule: “The For-Profit Journalism Model is Broken” Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 9/6/2023 on 9/6/2023 “Fox, MSNBC, and CNN air opinion disguised as news, knowing that anger, fear, and conflict draw eyeballs, which in turn results in greater advertising revenue. Speculation on who leads a political race more than a year away, with pundits pontificating on soundstages, costs less sending reporters out to cover communities,” writes Director of Journalism and …
Grantee Imara Jones Named One of TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2023 Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 7/7/2023 on 7/7/2023 Imara Jones, award-winning journalist and founder of TransLash Media (TransLash), has been named one of TIME magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2023. She joins the ranks of Brittney Griner, King Charles III, and Shannon Watts in the Icons category of TIME’s 2023 list. Imara spearheads the TransLash Podcast with Imara Jones, a bi-weekly podcast …
American Mosaic Journalism Prize Awarded to Carvell Wallace and Cerise Castle Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 2/14/2023 on 2/14/2023 The Heising-Simons Foundation is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2023 American Mosaic Journalism Prize: Carvell Wallace and Cerise Castle.
Welcoming New Additions to the Journalism Portfolio Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 7/8/2022 on 7/8/2022 The Journalism portfolio recognizes and supports journalism as a critical element of a healthy and multicultural U.S. democracy. To achieve this goal, we support nonprofit journalism organizations across two focus areas: underrepresented groups and voices in media; and investigative journalism.
Translash Q&A with Imara Jones Share By Heising-Simons Foundation on 6/30/2022 on 6/30/2022 My name is Imara Jones and I am the founder and CEO of Translash Media. Translash is a nonprofit media organization that uses the power of journalism and nonfiction narratives to help center trans people at a time of social backlash by telling trans stories as a tool to lower the ignorance about our community and consequently violence against our community.