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FY2004
DISSEMINATION AWARDS
Active
Voice/Farmingville
Outreach
Farmingville is an award-winning documentary about the
effect U.S. immigration policy has on a small Long Island community.
A Dissemination Award produced a community toolkit that was used
in a national series of discussions about the film, enhancing the
goals of the Corporation’s program in Strengthening U.S. Democracy
to help new communities integrate immigrant populations.
AllAfrica
Foundation
The AllAfrica Foundation operates one of the Internet's largest
content sites, offering multilingual news and digital networks that
connect groups working on common issues throughout the African continent.
This Dissemination Award supported production of a multimedia series
about the opportunities and challenges South Africa faces in its
second decade of democratic governance.
America
Abroad Media
America Abroad Media produces in-depth radio programs on international
issues using seasoned journalists such as Garrick Utley, Marvin
Kalb and Margaret Warner. A Dissemination Award funded three one-hour
programs on Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, as well as a dissemination
campaign to broaden awareness of this new hourly program among public
radio outlets and international affairs departments in colleges
and universities.
APCO
Africa/Establishment of African University Communicators Network
African universities receiving Corporation funding are creating
a communications system that will inform the public about each university’s
accomplishments and make university administrative operations more
transparent. The 2004 Carnegie Corporation conference brought together
leaders from these institutions to form the African University Communicators
Network, a successful online association that is being used by university
communications administrators to learn new strategies, access technical
information and communicate with each other and the Corporation.
Boston
Review
The editors of Boston Review, like the Corporation, are
interested in ideas that inform public policy, and have been instrumental
in publishing the work of Carnegie Scholars. This Award supported
Boston Review’s proposal to build relationships with
other media organizations as it builds circulation and to enhance
Boston Review’s web site.
Center
for Defense Information/Azimuth Media/Arming
the Heavens
Arming the Heavens, a documentary about space weaponization,
produced with funding from a 2003 Dissemination Award, and a new
companion brochure were distributed nationwide to High School Advanced
Placement teachers in relevant subject areas as well as to college
and university instructors in departments such as Peace and Conflict
Studies, Nuclear Arms and Control, International Relations and World
Politics and Foreign Policy.
Center
for Science and the Media/ScienCentral
ScienCentral produces expert television news reports on science-related
educational issues that are picked up by ABC, NBC and other broadcasters.
This Award supported stories based on Corporation education foci,
such as teenage literacy, teacher training and urban school reform.
The reports aired on local stations in up to 20 states with an audience
of about 1 million viewers per broadcast.
Community
Television Foundation of South Florida/Nightly
Business Report
The Nightly Business Report produced a five-part series
on South Africa’s transition to democracy during the first
ten years after the end of apartheid. The project included an outreach
component that distributed videotapes of the entire series to targeted
high school teachers nationwide. A companion web site provides additional
information and learning resources for teachers, students and parents.
Crimes
of War Project
The Crimes of War Project is an online resource for journalists
looking for information and guidance on war reporters’ responsibilities
in documenting humanitarian and war crimes. This Dissemination Media
Award produced a series of articles on the interlocking wars being
waged in sub-Saharan Africa and the consequences these conflicts
have on efforts to stabilize the region.
Educational
Broadcasting Corporation/The
Open Mind
The Open Mind is a venerable program that for almost 50
years has featured interviews with world leaders, politicians, writers
and others conducted by the series’ only moderator, Richard
Heffner. This Dissemination Award supported production costs for
programs focusing on issues central to the Corporation’s grantmaking.
Educational
Broadcasting Corporation/Wide
Angle
Wide Angle, a PBS documentary series that explores critical
international issues, received a Dissemination Award toward program
development for its third season and pre-production of two documentaries
focusing on issues germane to Corporation grantmaking in Africa
and Russia.
Educational
Television Endowment for South Carolina/Hedrick Smith Productions
To augment a Corporation grant toward Schools that Work,
a PBS documentary about public school reform in America, this Award
provided funding for a companion web site for the program that will
ensure school leaders and policymakers can learn from the broadcast
and its findings.
Firelight
Media/Schools
for a New Society
A new documentary, Schools for a New Society, records the
progress of the five-year initiative by the same name. The film
focuses on three of the cities participating in the program, Sacramento,
Chattanooga and Boston, highlights changes to local high schools
at the midway point of the Schools for a New Society program
and takes the parent, teacher or policymaker inside these re-designed
high schools.
Foreign
Policy Association
The Foreign Policy Association’s popular Great Decisions world
affairs educational program is the centerpiece of a project to raise
awareness of international issues in America. The Corporation funded
a one-day training seminar for new Great Decisions coordinators,
who went on to promote the program in communities around the country.
Greater
Washington Educational Telecommunication Association/The
News
The Greater Washington Educational Telecommunication Association
and MacNeil/Lehrer Productions are developing a ten-minute daily
news program that will be available for viewing in middle and high
school classrooms. This Dissemination Award supported the development
of outreach activities, such as focus groups to vet programming
content, as well as consultations with journalists, educational
experts and other strategic partners.
Greater
Washington Educational Telecommunication Association/The
NewsHour with Jim Lehrer ($50,000)
This Dissemination Award, issued to encourage deeper analysis of
international news, will enable NewsHour reporters to cover
stories in Iran and Iraq and to better understand the concomitant
issues arising from contemporary political developments in the Middle
East.
Johns
Hopkins University/International Journalism Program
The International Journalism Program trains American journalists
to do a better job of providing the public with in-depth coverage
of global issues. This Award supported a program, called America
Through The Eyes of Islam, which took U.S. national editors to Lebanon
and Syria for intensive training in international affairs.
Justice at Stake
Justice at Stake received a capacity-building Dissemination Award
to launch a seminal report, The New Politics of Judicial Elections,
about the rising influence of special interests on judicial elections
and the efforts underway to advance public financing of these elections.
U.S. Senator John McCain from Arizona participated in the event
at which the report was announced.
Learning
Matters/The Merrow Report
John Merrow is a frequent contributor of education news stories
to The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.This Award provided support
toward a series of reports on education and education policy issues
strategic to the Corporation's education program goals.
Long
Island Educational Television Council/BBC
World News
WLIW21, Long Island’s public television conduit, transmits
the BBC World News to public television stations across
the United States. Carnegie Corporation's support went toward licensing
and transmittal fees.
MMB
Media/Youth and News Study
In connection with the Corporation’s grantmaking for journalism
education, a survey was conducted among 18-to-34-year-olds to measure
their current news sources and viewing patterns. The survey data
will be used to assess new trends about how and where young adults
access news, informing the discussions underway by leading journalism
school deans about improving journalism education. A report about
the study appeared in the Spring 2005 Carnegie Reporter.
Moving
Image/Democracy on Deadline
Lumiere Productions, with its partner, Roundtable, is preparing
an outreach campaign around a four-part documentary, Deadline
for Democracy: The Global Struggle for an Independent Press,
scheduled for broadcast on public television. This Dissemination
Award provided seed money for the public engagement strategy.
Objective
Reality Foundation/Interfoto 2004
A Dissemination Award supported advance work and preparations for
Interfoto’s 2004 Annual Festival of Professional Photography,
which was held in Moscow. The festival included educational activities
and a photograph exhibit of professional photographers’ depictions
of social, cultural and political changes in Russia since the end
of the Soviet era.
Radio
and Television News Directors Foundation
The Journalist’s Guide to Covering Bioterrorism,
an informational piece for news media about crisis communications
and bioterrorism, was produced by the Radio and Television News
Directors Foundation with support from Carnegie Corporation shortly
after 9/11. Since then, demand for the Guide has exceeded
supply. This year’s Award enabled the report to be updated
and reprinted.
Teachers
College of Columbia University/Hechinger Institute
Prior to the 2004 presidential election, the Hechinger Institute
held a one-day seminar for political journalists that focused on
education matters likely to surface during the campaign, with the
goal of informing and enhancing election coverage of critical education
issues.
United
Nations Development Programme/Between
Peril and Promises
Between Peril and Promises is 30-minute film documentary
that features Ugandan, Tanzanian and South African women whose lives
have been transformed by scholarship and education programs targeting
women’s higher education, including the Strengthening African
Universities program, a collaboration between the Carnegie Corporation
and the Ford, MacArthur and Rockefeller foundations.
University
of Maryland Foundation/American
Journalism Review
The American Journalism Review conducted a study on the
qualitative differences in news reporting practiced by for-profit
and non-commercial news media. Results of the research, which also
focused on the impact financial pressures impose on news content,
appeared in the October/November 2004 issue of the magazine.
WGBH/Frontline/World
Fellows Program
Frontline/World partners with journalism schools at Columbia
University, Northwestern University and the University of California
at Berkeley to provide outstanding students the opportunity of contributing
to Frontline/World's program content and of working side-by-side
with the program's writers, producers and directors. A Dissemination
Award provided stipends for students selected for the project whose
work was appeared on the Frontline/World web site.
World
Affairs Councils of America
The World Affairs Councils of America received a planning grant
to coordinate a series of 2005 national conversations using the
Corporation-funded documentary about space weaponization, Arming
the Heavens, and a related Carnegie Challenge Paper called
The Weaponization of Space: Divided Viewpoints, Uncertain Directions.
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