Foundation for Technology, News and Public Affairs

The Foundation for Technology, News and Public Affairs, Inc., operating as the Center for News, Technology and Innovation (CNTI), is a research and convening hub for the journalism industry. It aims to understand the technological and business shifts affecting the news industry and help news leaders adapt to the evolving challenges and opportunities. This grant supports CNTI’s efforts to build shared insights and knowledge across its four identified issue areas.

The Center for News, Technology & Innovation (CNTI) is a global public policy center aimed at cultivating better informed media and internet policy discussions to enable an independent, competitive news media and an open internet. CNTI brings together thought leaders from journalism, technology, civil society, and policy to have global, evidence-based discussions aimed at feasible solutions to policy challenges. The organization has six broad topic areas including algorithmic accountability, policy-driven economic support for news, information and cybersecurity, news access and engagement, open distribution and access, and online harms and disinformation. CNTI produces primers that lay out the complexities of specific issues within the six topical areas, as well as the state of current research and legislative activity around the world all in an effort to problem solve. In addition, CNTI hosts deliberative, cross-industry discussions and conducts in-house and collaborative research. The award supports a portion of staff time to produce research as well as costs related to events and convenings.