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FairWarning receives grants

FairWarning announced Thursday it has received grants that will advance its efforts to deliver strong watchdog journalism.

FairWarning is a nonprofit investigative news organization based in Los Angeles that focuses on health and safety issues, and related topics of government and business accountability.

It has received a grant of $7,500 from The Streisand Foundation, which supports causes important to legendary recording artist Barbra Streisand, including civil rights, women’s health and environmental protection. Another grant of $12,000 has come from The LaFetra Foundation, a small family foundation that supports a variety of causes, including education, the arts and independent media.

Thanks to the generosity of mystery writer Michael Connelly and the popularity of his books, FairWarning received more than $19,000 from the sale of rights to name characters in one of the author’s future novels. Connelly, a former journalist who is also a board member of FairWarning, sponsored the online auction of naming rights to support the news organization. The two top bidders, who offered more than $9,500 apiece, will each get to name a character in a forthcoming book.

“Our brand of journalism is expensive, so we’re grateful and honored by these gifts,” said Myron Levin, executive director and editor of FairWarning, in a statement. “They will help us to produce deeply reported stories on significant issues of public health and safety.”

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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