Ethics & Excellence in Journalism Fdn

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Location: Oklahoma City, Okla.

The Chi-Town Daily News has been awarded a one-year, $25,000 grant of general operating funds by the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation.
The Daily News will use this funding to expand its neighborhood journalism program, which has trained more than 80 Chicagoans to cover news in their neighborhoods. With the support of the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation, the Daily News will offer more intensive training to its volunteer reporters and will recruit dozens of new reporters from communities across Chicago. The Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation grant will also support the Daily News public affairs reporting program, which employs professional journalists to cover local government beats.
Grants: 1) Chi-Town Daily News, $25,000 beginning in 2000 for general operating funds, Purpose: Expand neighborhood journalism project 2) Government in My Backyard, $54,450 2009, 3) Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, $100,000 2009, 4) Center for Investigative Reporting $85,000, 5) Center for Public Integrity $192,956 2008, 6) Investigative Reporting Workshop, $75,000

2007: 1) Fund for Investigative Journalism, $100,000

Other 2008: 1) Center for Investigative Reporting, $12,629.37; 2) New American Media/Pacific News Service. $6,438.50; 3) Center for Public Integrity, $76,133; 4) Fund for Investigative Journalism, $100,000

2010 Grants: 11) Center for Investigative Reporting $150,000 to build and test a replicable model for regional news organizations to generate earned revenue, 2) Center for Public Integrity $100,000 for Phase I of Rocky Mountain Investigative News Networks I-News 3) Fund for Investigative Journalism $100,000 for the Regional Investigative Reporting Grant Program, 4) InvestigateWest $100,000 for production and distribution of watchdog journalism on state and regional issues 5) Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism $100,000 for support of its local, collaborative model for nonprofit investigative journalism. 6) American University for the Investigative Reporting Workshop $75,000 to create significant original investigative reporting on subjects of national and international importance for publication or broadcast 7) FairWarning $50,000 for an online publication focused on safety and health issues affecting consumers and workers 8) Voice of San Diego $50,000 for research, development, production and marketing of a web-based resource aimed at helping communities replicate the voiceofsandiego.org model.