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Exploring Machine Learning at the TV News Archive
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…
Raising Voices for Science: A Test Campaign (including Rural Mississippi Extension)
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…
Arthur M. Sackler Colloquium on the Science of Science Communication III
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.
Documenting Hate
Documenting Hate is an initiative to create a comprehensive, reliable national database of identity-related violence and other hate crimes directed toward people, places and institutions. Led by Rita Allen Foundation grant partner ProPublica, the project is a collaboration between news organizations, journalism schools and civil rights groups. The…
Evidence-Based Science Communication: Planning Process
Digital Democracy
Rita Allen Foundation Scholars
Building the Knowledge and Capacity of Funders Supporting Public Engagement with Evidence
Media Impact Funders (MIF) is a network of philanthropists and foundations that fund public-interest media and technology projects, including documentary films, investigative reporting and social media campaigns. Through programs and communications, MIF enables funders to collaborate and increase the effectiveness of their work. Amid a rapidly changing media…
David Prober Illuminates How Light Affects Sleep Behavior
David Prober (2010 RAF Scholar) and his team have shown how a protein in the brain regulates sleep in response to light.