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FairWarning.org receives $60,000 in funding

A two-year-old website called FairWarning.org that covers safety, health and corporate conduct has been awarded $60,000 in grants and funding.

The Charles Evans Foundation, which provided the original funding to launch FairWarning in March 2010, has continued its support with a contribution of $50,000.

“The Evans Foundation has been there for us since the beginning,” said Myron Levin, executive director of FairWarning, in a statement. “It’s hard to imagine where we’d be without them.”

FairWarning, which is based in Encino, Calif., also has received grants of $5,000 each from The Rosenthal Family Foundation and from The Renaissance Foundation. In addition, the Fund for Investigative Journalism has awarded $3,500. “We rely heavily on these donors to assist our efforts to provide strong, public interest reporting,” Levin said. “We are so grateful for their support.”

Starting this week, FairWarning’s “News & Notes” feature, which appears five days a week, has been revamped to give readers a broader roundup of important safety and health news.

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.