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GroundTruth Project

Boston, Massachusetts

Grants

2023 (2 years)
$200,000

GroundTruth Project (GroundTruth) is a nonprofit organization that operates two programs aimed at strengthening the reporting power of news outlets: Report for America, which recruits, places, and subsidizes the salaries for reporters at local news organizations around the United States; and Report for the World, which applies this model in a growing number of countries. GroundTruth also works with its partner newsrooms to implement fundraising models to diversify its sources of income and strengthen operations. This grant supports Report for the World, and the intended outcomes of this work are more robust reporting on underreported topics globally and more opportunities for news outlets around the world to strengthen and diversify their operations.

2022 ( 1 month)
$15,000

The GroundTruth Project is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization with a mission to serve under-covered communities by supporting the next generation of journalists to do on-the-ground reporting and advance sustainability, innovation, and equity in journalism worldwide. GroundTruth launched Report for America to place talented emerging journalists in local newsrooms. This X-grant supports Report for America's national gathering in Chicago in June 2022 for more than 325 emerging reporters, or corps members, to build relationships, network with one another, and gain critical skills around leadership, equity, and community engagement.

2021 (2 years)
$250,000

The GroundTruth Project (GroundTruth) is a nonprofit organization that operates two programs aimed at strengthening the reporting power of news outlets: Report for America, which recruits and places reporters at local news organizations to increase their capacity to cover underreported communities and topics; and Report for the World, which recruits and places reporters at news organizations to improve the reporting capacity of newsrooms in countries around the world. GroundTruth also coaches its partner newsrooms on fundraising strategies to increase and diversify their sources of income. Report for the World currently supports six corps members in India and Nigeria; it plans to expand to additional countries around the world in the next five years. This grant supports Report for the World; the intended outcomes of this work are more robust reporting on underreported topics globally and new opportunities for partner news outlets to earn additional revenue.

2020 ( 5 months)
$100,000

This grant is awarded in recognition of the 100&Change finalist stage.

2018 (3 years)
$600,000

The GroundTruth Project (GroundTruth) is a nonprofit organization founded in 2014 to help develop a new generation of global journalists who work with deep knowledge and respect for the places and people about which they report. It provides global reporting fellowships to early career multimedia reporters from around the world and places their work in U.S. outlets that reach wide audiences. Recently, its work has expanded to include support of fellows in U.S. newsrooms. This award supports GroundTruth to strengthen and expand its global reporting work, resulting in an array of multimedia stories carried in a range of media outlets that improve the American public’s understanding of critical global issues.

2017 (1 year)
$150,000

The Groundtruth Project is a nonprofit news organization that aims to provide long-form international reporting to American audiences and develop a new generation of foreign correspondents with deep knowledge and respect for the places and people about which they report. GroundTruth’s multimedia reports focus on large systemic issues and aim to appeal to and inform primarily younger audiences. This grant provides general support for Groundtruth and is intended to help strengthen institutional infrastructure and grow the fellowship program.

2015 (2 years)
$300,000

The GroundTruth Project (GroundTruth) is a nonprofit news organization that grew out of GlobalPost, a for-profit digital news site for international reporting started in 2009. GroundTruth was initially a special project focused on long-form feature reports for GlobalPost. In 2014, Charlie Sennott, a co-founder of GlobalPost and former veteran foreign correspondent with the Boston Globe, transformed GroundTruth into an independent nonprofit news organization in order to support more long-form, multimedia reporting on systemic issues which could be distributed through news outlets beyond GlobalPost, and to develop and train a new generation of foreign correspondents that would better report on issues of interest to younger news consumers. MacArthur support would enable GroundTruth to expand its editorial team, strengthen its capability to produce multimedia reports, and improve its utilization of technology and social media to expand its audience. The intended outcome is explanatory journalism on important international topics that provides Americans with a richer and more nuanced view of the world and a more intelligent context for understanding international headlines.