As part of the growing sector of news organizations supported by philanthropy, INN will help TMP accomplish its mission of providing training, education and professional development to international journalists, particularly journalism that focuses on the role of religion in public life and in peoples’ lives.
Read MoreYoung journalist Carole Wambui’s path during the Coronavirus pandemic took her through unusual circumstances from Nairobi to New York to Indiana, where she found new connections that changed the course of her own life story. Ella Gibson has her story.
Read MoreThe Media Project’s online news magazine, ReligionUnplugged.com, has received numerous awards from several different journalism organizations for its reporting on religion news around the world since its launch in 2019.
Read MoreFor the past four months our colleagues at Religion Unplugged have covered the COVID-19 pandemic through extensive reporting from around the globe. Below is a list of over 50+ reports from RUP about the pandemic in the order they were published. Several of these stories are written by TMP faculty, board of directors and members from around the globe.
Read MoreFor TMP board members, the worldwide COVID-19 quarantine has been a time of reconnecting with family, reporting on this unprecedented story and thoughtfully considering the long-term ramifications of the pandemic for their home countries.
Read MoreCarol Wambui is the fourth Arne Fjeldstad Scholar, who received a scholarship to be part of the NYC Semester in Journalism (NYCJ) at The King’s College in NYC. She is studying Journalism at the Multimedia University of Kenya. During her time at King’s in the NYCJ program, she is interning at ReligionUnplugged, an award-winning non-profit news outlet that covers religion.
Read MoreThe Media Project recently donated two laptops and helped arrange an $8,000 grant for LCC International University to create a student-run web site, iuconline.com and to develop its journalism program. LCC International University is a partner of The Media Project and also to the NYC Semester in Journalism (NYCJ) program at The King’s College in NYC.
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Entrepreneur and professor Paul Glader and his team members announced today plans to build and test a product that aims to improve the corrections process of news organizations. Their initiative is supported with a $75,000 investment from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
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