Past projects
For over two decades, the Fund for Authentic Journalism has promoted and funded journalism that has challenged power and amplified grassroots struggles. Past projects include the following initiatives.
Narco News
(www.narconews.com) The online newspaper published thousands of news reports from 2000-2019 focused on the drug war and social movements in the Americas. The results of these investigations were provided to the public for free and translated into multiple languages. The ad-free publication also invested in editorial training and supported dozens of journalists in producing reported stories. It is now being archived.
The School of Authentic Journalism
Beginning in 2003, the project trained some 630 journalists and community organizers from six continents, fostering peer-to-peer learning around techniques and strategies for covering social movements through firsthand storytelling and workshops. Though the School ended as a formal project in 2017, its 15-year experience helped lay the groundwork for a new initiative launched in 2025: The Salon of Authentic Journalism.
No Nukes Oral History Project
In November and December of 2012, the Fund for Authentic Journalism provided support for an oral history project to document the U.S. anti-nuclear movement in the late 20th Century. The Fund now maintains and preserves the physical and digital archives of the No Nukes Oral History Project, which involved interviewing and collecting archival materials from more than 100 participants in the anti-nuclear movements of the 1970s and 1980s.
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