Free Press' News Voices to Work on Trust, Misinformation at Local Level

We’re excited to announce that the News Integrity Initiative at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism has chosen Free Press’ News Voices project as one of its first 10 grantees. Free Press is honored to be among a remarkable group of organizations doing vital work to foster trust between newsrooms and the public and nurture constructive, inclusive public conversations. NII’s $250,000 grant will help support News Voices’ work in North Carolina, where we launched earlier in 2017, and in New Jersey, where we’ve been working since 2015. News Voices builds bridges between journalists and everyday people to improve local news, increase access to credible information, and foster public support for quality journalism. We do that through intensive on-the-ground outreach and in-person conversations, large and small. This grant will help us work with our local and state partners to leverage our local relationships and explore how communities lose trust in the media — and how to rebuild it.