The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Democracy Fund and the Rita Allen Foundation sponsored an open call for ideas to address concerns about the spread of misinformation and produce ways to build trust in journalism. The funders collaborated to choose 20 winning projects and provide a total of $1…

SciLine, a service from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, provides journalists with high-quality scientific expertise and context—on demand and on deadline. As SciLine Director Rick Weiss wrote in an an October 27, 2017, editorial in Science, “… in the fight against misinformation, fact…

The Coral Project conducts robust research and builds free, open-source tools that empower newsrooms to build constructive dialogue with their communities. Support from the Rita Allen Foundation will allow The Coral Project to improve its tools, as well as provide resources and training to help journalists use them effectively and, ultimately, to…

The Internet Archive’s TV News Archive opens new avenues for journalists, scholars and citizens to track and evaluate political news. This database, developed with support from the Rita Allen Foundation and others, includes more than 1 million TV segments and thousands of linked fact-checks. A new grant will…

Americans have an overwhelmingly positive view of science, yet remain ambivalent toward government’s leading role in driving scientific advancement. According to a recent benchmark study conducted by ScienceCounts, a nonprofit focused on enhancing public support for federally funded science, only one in four Americans recognize that government’s…

The third Arthur M. Sackler Colloquium on the Science of Science Communication, supported in part by the Rita Allen Foundation, built on the consensus study report Communicating Science Effectively: A Research Agenda as a framework for advancing both research and practice in science communication.