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Canary Media gets $300K from MacArthur Foundation

Energy news site Canary Media will receive $300,000 from the MacArthur Foundation, according to an announcement Tuesday.

The money will support its general operations, including journalism covering the transition to clean energy and solutions to the climate crisis.

The support comes as Canary is merging next month with the Energy News Network and its reporting on energy issues in the Midwest and other U.S. regions.

“One of the most important stories of our time centers on both the existential crisis climate change poses to humanity and the positive health benefits and economic opportunities inherent in the clean energy transition,” said MacArthur President John Palfrey in a statement. “We need more independent journalism focused on climate and clean energy issues.”

Canary Media was launched in 2021 by former staffers of Greentech Media.

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.

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