The News Integrity Initiative gives $1.8 million to 10 projects focused on increasing trust in news

The News Integrity Initiative (NII), the $14 million news project launched earlier in 2017 out of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, on Oct 4 announced its first 10 grantees. The projects are getting a combined $1.8 million to focus on projects that build trust between newsrooms and the public, make newsrooms more diverse and inclusive, and make public conversations more fruitful and less polarized.