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The Role of Philanthropy in Local Accountability Journalism The symposium featured three panel discussions that explored aspects of nonprofit accountability journalism.
Buzz Woolley (far right), president of the Girard Foundation, speaks at a panel discussion on the financial sustainability of nonprofit news organizations with (from left) Kevin Davis, CEO and executive director, Investigative News Network; James T. Hamilton, Charles S. Sydnor Professor of Public Policy, Duke University; and Robert “Rosey” Rosenthal, executive director, Center for Investigative Reporting. Photo by Michel Duarte.
“These nonprofit models can really come in and help make a more robust journalistic landscape.”
Christopher Callahan, Cronkite dean and university vice provost
universities in terms of producing this sort of journalism,” Callahan said. The symposium also featured three panel discussions that explored different aspects of nonprofit accountability journalism. “Journalism the Nonprofit Way” featured leaders of nonprofit accountability journalism organizations and included representatives from Voice of San Diego, MinnPost, Chicago News Cooperative, The Texas Tribune, New York Public Radio and the Pittsburgh-based PublicSource. Downie moderated the discussion, which focused on the role of accountability journalism in local communities. Leaders of community and national foundations that support local accountability journalism participated in the panel “Serving Communities by Supporting Nonprofit Accountability Journalism,” a conversation about how these funders became involved with nonprofit news organizations. The discussion, moderated by Sandra Mims Rowe, Cronkite’s 2012 Edith Kinney Gaylord Visiting Professor in Journalism Ethics, featured representatives from Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation, the Pittsburgh Foundation, the Arizona Community Foundation, the Charles H. Revson
Universities are playing an important role in producing accountability journalism. Foundation and the Chicago Community Trust. “Keeping Local Accountability Journalism Alive” focused on the longterm financial sustainability of nonprofit accountability journalism organizations. The panel was moderated by James T. Hamilton, Charles S. Sydnor Professor of Public Policy and director of the Dewitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy at Duke University, and featured representatives from Investigative News Network, MinnPost, Center for Investigative Reporting and the Girard Foundation. Callahan said he hoped the symposium would spark increased interest and involvement in nonprofit accountability journalism. “I hope the participants are inspired by this new kind of journalism,” Callahan said. “I’m hoping they think it’s important enough to get involved in it themselves.” o
Journalism the Nonprofit Way Moderator: Leonard Downie Jr., Weil Family Professor of Journalism, Cronkite School; vice president-at-large, The Washington Post Panelists: • Andrew Donohue, editor, voiceofsandiego.org • Joel Kramer, CEO and editor, MinnPost • James O’Shea, CEO and editor, Chicago News Cooperative • Evan Smith, CEO and editor-in-chief, The Texas Tribune • Laura R. Walker, president and CEO, New York Public Radio • Sharon Walsh, editor, PublicSource Serving Communities by Supporting Nonprofit Accountability Journalism Moderator: Sandra Mims Rowe, 2012 Edith Kinney Gaylord Visiting Professor in Journalism Ethics, Cronkite School; former editor, The (Portland) Oregonian Panelists: • Sue Hale, media consultant, Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation • Terry Mazany, president and CEO, Chicago Community Trust • Grant Oliphant, president and CEO, The Pittsburgh Foundation • Jim Pitofsky, chief strategy officer, Arizona Community Foundation • Julie Sandorf, president, Charles H. Revson Foundation Keeping Local Accountability Journalism Alive Moderator: James T. Hamilton, Charles S. Sydnor Professor of Public Policy, Duke University; director, DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy, Duke University Panelists: • Kevin Davis, CEO and executive director, Investigative News Network • Laurie Kramer, chief revenue officer, MinnPost • Robert “Rosey” Rosenthal, executive director, Center for Investigative Reporting • Buzz Woolley, president, Girard Foundation The Cronkite Journal
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