Our in-person and online events gather leaders to advance knowledge about issues that are critical to the public interest.

Our 2021 Media Impact Forum will focus on evidence-based communications through one online discussion a month from February to June. Rationale & Context Last year (isn’t it nice we can finally say that?), we kicked off our 2020 Media Impact Forum with a discussion on the origins of COVID-19 and the danger of animal-borne infectious […]

Since 1999, journalists, media executives and scholars from around the world have had an annual meeting in Austin, Texas to discuss the impact of the digital revolution on  journalism. The International Symposium on Online Journalism is a program of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas at Austin, a unique conference […]

Through years of data research and other field-building activities, we know that community foundations are playing an increasingly important role in the media and journalism funding ecosystem. (The scale of increased giving is substantial: community foundation support for journalism has increased 1000% since 2009.) As such, Media Impact Funders (MIF) is testing support in the […]

We’re excited to announce that our 2021 Journalism Funders Gathering will take place Oct. 13-14 at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, PA.