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Los Angeles Business Journal: Philanthropies increasingly support local news, news literacy

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More than ever, philanthropies are funding ways to strengthen news at the local level. That focus will benefit students in Los Angeles, thanks to a three-year, $1.15 million grant to the News Literacy Project to support a partnership with the Los Angeles Unified School District.

“The News Literacy Project is recognizing that there’s been a shift in how people consume and interact with the news,” says Gerun Riley, who heads the Foundation. “We really want to make sure that young people develop the skills to be able to interact with news to differentiate fact from fiction and identify reputable and verifiable sources of news and use that news in a productive way.”

Read the Los Angeles Business Journal piece here. Read more about the Broad Foundation’s support for the News Literacy Project’s work with LAUSD here.

 

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