BGA and McCormick Foundation form partnership

The Better Government Association and the Robert R. McCormick Foundation have formed the Illinois Solutions Partnership, a collaboration building on both company’s missions in an effort to address the state’s challenges through investigative and enterprise reporting and solutions-focused journalism. The new partnership will be launched with $10 million in McCormick Foundation grants over the next […]

McCormick Foundation gives $1m grant to Medill for local journalism

The Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications received a $1 million grant from the Robert R. McCormick Foundation to support local news. The money will be used to: Launch the Metro Media Lab, an organization that will examine how to better create and deliver local news. The lab will also train local journalists […]