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WorkingNation receives grant to produce employment-related journalism

WorkingNation, a nonprofit founded to explore unemployment and economic solutions, has received a $750,000 grant from Lumina Foundation to produce work-related journalism.

Diane Haithman of the Los Angeles Business Journal writes, “The grant from the Indianapolis-based foundation will support original video and digital journalism intended to increase awareness and understanding of the future of work. The foundation focuses on increasing the number of Americans with college degrees and other credentials beyond high school.

“‘Lumina Foundation is the country’s leader in advocating for postsecondary training and education as the avenue to a sustainable future,’ Bilger said in a statement.

“The two-year grant represents Lumina Foundation’s first large-scale media commitment to highlighting the changing world of work in the United States.”

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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.