Several of our UNC-Knight Foundation Newsroom Initiative Table Stakes participants — past and present — received funding as part of the Facebook Journalism Project’s $16 million in relief funds for local news.
The grants include $10.3 million awarded to 144 U.S. local newsrooms as part of the COVID-19 Local News Relief Fund Grant Program and $5.4 million awarded to 59 North American newsrooms that participated in Facebook Local News Accelerator programs focused on subscriptions and memberships.
The pool of grant recipients is notable in several ways:
- Nearly four in five are family- or independently-owned.
- Half are published by or for communities of color.
- Nearly 40 percent are digitally native publishers.
- Just over a third are non-profits.
Here are the UNC Table Stakes organizations that are grant recipients:
Cohort 1
Grant Amount: $40,000
- WFAE in collaboration with Qcitymetro (Cohort 3) and The Charlotte Ledger
Grant Amount: $100,000
Cohort 2
Grant Amount: $75,000
Grant Amount: $150,000
Grant Amount: $100,000
Grant Amount: $35,000
Grant Amount: $99,153
Cohort 3
Grant Amount: $100,000
Grant Amount: $100,000