Knight Foundation Gives $200K to Huffington Investigative Fund

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on December 22, 2009 - 8:30am.

Washington - The Huffington Post's Investigative Fund has received a $200,000 grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, earmarked for investigative reporting.

"The Huffington Post Investigative Fund is experimenting with a new way of providing important journalism, functioning as a non-profit that draws audience from a popular for-profit," said Eric Newton, vice president of Knight Foundation's journalism program.

"It's a worthy test of a new idea, and since we really don't know how investigative reporting is best supported in the future, an interesting experiment."

Since its inception this fall, the Fund has produced more than 50 stories, including 20 in video format, as well as several citizen journalism and distributed research projects.

Other Huffington Post Investigative Fund supporters include the Schumann Center for Media and Democracy, Atlantic Philanthropies and the Markle Foundation.

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