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RFT Wins $25,000 Lipman Grant To Investigate Missouri Prisons

2 years 9 months ago
The Riverfront Times recently won a $25,000 grant from the Lipman Center's Initiative in Reporting on Race and Criminal Justice. The Lipman Center for Journalism and Civil and Human Rights is part of the Columbia Journalism School and runs several programs to help journalists and newsrooms investigate law enforcement, incarceration, human rights abuses and more. The Initiative in Reporting on Race and Criminal Justice provides local newsrooms and reporters financial assistance to tackle a six-month investigative project that "illuminates the inequalities and what has gone wrong in the American criminal justice system."
Rosalind Early

Nonprofit Takes Aim At Fox News By Demystifying Ad Exchanges

2 years 9 months ago
Usually when people start whining about the propaganda dumpster fire that is Fox News, several things predictably happen. First, somebody with no idea how any of this works will yell out something about how the FCC should ban Fox from doing this (which is unconstitutional), or restore the mythologized Fairness Doctrine (which wouldn’t have applied […]
Karl Bode

What’s wrong with progressive organizations? Just about everything.

2 years 9 months ago
The article of the moment in progressive circles is Monday's Ryan Grim piece in the Intercept that's subtitled, "Meltdowns have brought progressive advocacy groups to a standstill at a critical moment in world history." Quite so. The only surprising thing about Grim's account is that it took so long for someone on the left to ...continue reading "What’s wrong with progressive organizations? Just about everything."
Kevin Drum