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With Soros Foundation Grant, NPR to Step Up State Government Reporting

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

With Grant, NPR to Step Up State Government Reporting By ELIZABETH JENSEN NY Times - Oct. 17, 2010 NPR has received a $1.8 million grant from the Open Society Foundations to begin a project called Impact of Government that is intended to add at least 100 journalists at NPR member radio stations in all 50 states over the next three years. The reporters, editors and analysts will cover state governments and how their actions affect people. The project ?creates capacity for local stations to hire reporters and to cover issues that matter that other places aren?t doing,? said Vivian Schiller, NPR?s president and chief executive. ?Everything that we?re doing as relates to member stations comes down to two things: building local news capacity and making sure the content we create is available to all people across all platforms...continue to full post

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