MLK50: Justice Through Journalism | Memphis, Tennessee
MLK50: Justice Through Journalism is a nonprofit Memphis newsroom focused on poverty, power and public policy — issues about which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. cared deeply.
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MLK50 and its journalists continue to garner recognition for work that makes a meaningful, tangible difference in people’s lives. We are – as Dr. King was – committed to economic justice both in our journalism and in our employment practices. We’re aligned with the people he would have been aligned with had he not been assassinated more ...
It’s been 4 years since MLK50 was born; lessons from the founder …
Apr 4, 2021 · We’ve forced institutions to change policy and raise workers’ pay.We’ve increased transparency, elevated the civic conversation around wages, rattled the status quo and of course, broken news. And now, we are 4. My initial plan was for MLK50 to be a one-year project that would end April 4, 2018. The headline on our first story: “The case for justice through journalism.”
MLK50 founder wins national journalism independence award
Apr 11, 2023 · The honor is given annually by the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. MLK50: Justice Through Journalism ’s founding editor Wendi C. Thomas has been selected as winner of the 2023 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence. MLK50 focuses on poverty, power and a range of public policy issues that affect local residents.
Charity Scott joins MLK50 as managing editor
Oct 8, 2024 · Before that, she spent over a decade at The Wall Street Journal, most recently as an award-winning corporate reporter. In 2021, she conceived of and co-led the team that developed the Journal’s package commemorating the centennial of the Tulsa race massacre, which won a New York Press Club award and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.. Scott says …
MLK50’s Byhalia Pipeline stories win national award for …
Oct 14, 2021 · The 2020 graduate of Texas State University joined MLK50 last fall as a Report for America corps member. He quickly carved out an environmental justice beat. He focused on Plains All American Pipeline and Valero Energy Corporation’s plans to build the Byhalia Connection Pipeline through majority Black Southwest Memphis against the wishes of residents.
Skyline Foundation awards MLK50 a $900K grant
Sep 12, 2023 · MLK50: Justice Through Journalism has been awarded a $900,000 grant from The Skyline Foundation.The Skyline Foundation, formerly known as Yellow Chair Foundation, chooses grantees that focus on the root causes to larger issues in …
From the editor Archives - MLK50: Justice Through Journalism
Nov 29, 2023 · We believe in the big ideas at MLK50: Justice Through Journalism. We have a vision of a city, of a nation, where everyone has enough resources to thrive.
An MLK50 celebration - MLK50: Justice Through Journalism
Jun 14, 2022 · Adrienne Johnson Martin is executive editor of MLK50: Justice Through Journalism. Contact her at adrienne.martin@mlk50.com. Tagged: Downtown from the editor hidden. Some of the MLK50: Justice Through Journalism staff, past and present, at our fifth anniversary party on June 11, 2022 at Brickwood Hall in downtown.
MLK50 receives second year of support from groundbreaking equity funder
May 25, 2021 · The Ford Foundation has been a key partner in the REJ Fund, committing $6 million over three years. “Philanthropy is past due in supporting the bold leadership of nonprofit journalism. To be clear – we can’t afford to scale inequality by only funding news organizations serving predominantly white Americans at scale.