NLP Strategic Framework FY23 - Flipbook - Page 4
OUR HISTORY:
A Legacy of Growing Impact
The News Literacy Project has long recognized that a lack of news literacy can cause
problems in a democracy. Our work for more than a decade has allowed us to develop
the expertise and the programs to address this problem on a national scale.
SEPTEMBER 2011
2012
March: NLP begins a digital-unit pilot in Chicago.
May: NLP announces a partnership with The
Washington Post to relaunch the paper’s
Young Journalists Development Program.
2008
2010
February: NLP is founded with a
$250,000 grant from the John S. and
James L. Knight Foundation.
SepteMber–OctOber: NLP holds three Fall
SepteMber: NLP holds a pre-election Fall Forum
event at Walt Whitman High School with Ruth
Marcus of The Washington Post, Chip Reid of CBS
and Matea Gold of the Los Angeles Times.
NLP’s 昀椀rst participating news organization.
Forum events at Walt Whitman High School
in Bethesda, Maryland, featuring well-known
media personalities, such as Washington
Post publisher Katharine Weymouth,
Gwen I昀椀ll of Washington Week and PBS
NewsHour, and former White House press
secretaries Mike McCurry and Dana Perino.
2009
2011
2013
February: NLP launches its classroom program
april: The IRS awards NLP independent
with an event featuring CNN’s Soledad O’Brien,
an NLP board member, at Williamsburg
Collegiate Charter School in Brooklyn.
501(c)(3) status. NLP had previously
operated through 昀椀scal sponsors.
april: NLP is featured in The Chronicle of Philanthropy
as an example of a nonpro昀椀t that survived and thrived
despite launching during the 2008 recession.
SepteMber:
NOveMber: NLP sponsors “America’s Changing Role
SepteMber: NLP creates its 昀椀rst website
at www.thenewsliteracyproject.org.
NOveMber: The New York Times becomes
OctOber: NLP’s Chicago pilot begins with an
event at Marquette Elementary School featuring
Clarence Page of the Chicago Tribune.
NLP expands into the District of Columbia
with a kickoff event at E.L. Haynes Public
Charter School featuring Gwen I昀椀ll of
Washington Week and PBS NewsHour.
OctOber: NLP sponsors “Presidential Debates:
Performance, Spin and the Press” at Georgetown
University with Robert Siegel of NPR, Chuck
Todd of NBC, Kathleen Parker of The Washington
Post and Al Hunt of Bloomberg News.
in the World and How the Press Covers It” at George
Washington University with Gwen I昀椀ll of Washington
Week and PBS NewsHour, Andrea Mitchell of NBC
and Thomas Friedman of The New York Times.
OctOber: NLP holds a Fall Forum event
at Walt Whitman High School with David
Brooks of The New York Times, E.J. Dionne
of The Washington Post and Jessica
Yellin of CNN discussing “Demosclerosis:
The Challenge of Moving America
Forward in a Hyper-Partisan Age.”
OCTOBER 2009
2014
JaNuary: The Chicago Tribune features NLP
in an article on the Chicago program.
SepteMber: NLP releases quantitative and qualitative
assessment reports for the 2013-14 school year showing
consistent impact across all programs and regions.
OctOber: NLP offers its 昀椀rst series of online professional
development workshops for teachers nationwide.
4 — Our History