A network of journalists, nonprofits, researchers and foundations have been investigating routes to weakening the influence of fake and misleading stories masquerading as news online. Now, following an election in which misinformation was highly visible, their work is taking on a new urgency. A two-part series by Elia Powers in MediaShift…
As the calendar year closes, we’ve reached out to several leaders in journalism, academia, philanthropy and social entrepreneurship to listen more deeply to what’s on their minds as they foster civic engagement in the current environment. We’ve heard several themes resonate: The importance of listening broadly and responding effectively to…
The National Academies gathered experts to examine science communication in an age of skepticism…
1996 Rita Allen Foundation Scholar Li-Huei Tsai has received the Society for Neuroscience Mika Salpeter Lifetime Achievement Award.
2004 Rita Allen Foundation Scholar David Tuveson has been named Director of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Cancer Center.
Public Agenda (RAF grant recipient) reports that elected officials say that participatory budgeting helped them be more responsive to community needs…
2016 Rita Allen Foundation Scholar Bo Li has received a Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering…
The Engaging News Project (ENP) evaluates ways that newsrooms can engage audiences by conducting trailblazing social science research—often in collaboration with news organizations—to understand how citizens interact with the news within the changing landscape of digital information. It then disseminates its findings to the broader journalism industry. The…
A report about research on sugar’s effect on the brain by 2016 Scholar Monica Dus was featured on NPR…
Two Rita Allen Foundation Scholars, Monica Dus and Sebastian Klinge, have received a 2016 NIH New Innovator Award…