The Invisible Institute won two Pulitzer Prizes on Monday, in Local Reporting and Audio Reporting. This year’s wins mean the 13-person Chicago-based nonprofit has now received four nods from the Pulitzer board in just four years.
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This video! 🥹

Congratulations to Sarah Conway, tru_trill + the entire City Bureau + Invisible Institute teams.

Read their two-year investigation centering the stories of Chicago’s missing Black women and girls: chicagomissingpersons.com

Thanks to dorothy hernandez at Chicago Sun-Times for sharing our Pulitzer news (and picking a quote that actually makes me sound good 😅).

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On a day we celebrate journalistic excellence with the The Pulitzer Prizes, the Medill Local News Initiative Northwestern Medill is putting a call for nominations for its annual local news 'Bright Spots' -- a feature in which we profile outlets building sustainable models. localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2024/05/…

Congratulations ProPublica team!

Way to make Chicago proud! #NewsOasis

Congratulations City Bureau & Invisible Institute teams! Sarah Conway

YOU MAKE MY LIFE HAPPIER 💕

(Also the exclamation point after DAD)

#MissionInvest2024 convenes as philanthropic asset owners continue to shift billions into climate, impact and racial equity investments.

Share this MIE pre-brief with your colleagues.

Mission Investors Exchange Matt Onek John Palfrey Tonya Allen Mayor Karen Bass

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Congratulations on 30 impactful years in Nigeria, team MacArthur Foundation!

Proud to announce that the Reader is making a return to a weekly print publication cycle, starting in the first week of June! 1/

The @baltimorebanner won many of the top honors at the regional MDDC journalism awards luncheon today, including News Organization of the Year. We're just getting started. We've built a talented team here. thebaltimorebanner.com/community/loca…

'Cities should look upon local journalism as they do other vital local institutions such as libraries, schools, museums and community centers.' — Philip Napoli

How cities benefit from supporting local news, curtailing corruption & strengthening community.🌍

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I've worked with Lisa while I was at John S. Knight Fellowships and here at American Press Institute. She is committed to meeting critical public info needs and to equipping journalists w useful training. This is a terrific hire, and I look fwd to what she and Marina Walker and the team will accomplish.

The Pulitzer Center is excited to announce that Lisa Gibbs will be the next CEO and president of the organization.

Gibbs, currently vice president for philanthropic development at the The Associated Press, will assume her new position in June. 🧵

👉bit.ly/CEOpc

The U.S. EPA awarded $20B in grants under the Inflation Reduction Act to eight projects under the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF).

The awardees have committed to reducing pollution and mobilizing financing and private capital.

Learn about the orgs ⬇️
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“We are in another crisis of research access to data” says Gabriel Nicholas of Center for Democracy & Technology, citing Twitter’s $4,200/month API, Reddit selling data to gen AI companies, & Meta’s ending Crowdtangle. “But this crisis is happening very slowly, and that’s what makes it really scary.”

Congratulations to Laurie Patton, the next president of American Academy of Arts & Sciences! And thanks to outgoing President David Oxtoby for a job well done. From strength to strength.