Strategic Framework FY19-FY22 - Report - Page 6
A Decade of Experience
The News Literacy Project has long recognized that a lack of news literacy can cause
problems in a democracy. Our work over the past decade has allowed us to develop the
expertise and the programs to address this problem on a national scale.
2008
February:
NLP is founded with a $250,000 grant from
the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
November:
The New York Times becomes NLP’s first
participating news organization.
September:
NLP creates its first website at
www.thenewsliteracyproject.org.
2009
February:
NLP launches its classroom program with
an event featuring CNN’s Soledad O’Brien,
an NLP board member, at Williamsburg
Collegiate Charter School in Brooklyn.
October:
NLP’s Chicago pilot begins with an event at
Marquette Elementary School featuring Clarence
Page of the Chicago Tribune.
2010
September–October:
NLP holds three Fall Forum events at Walt
Whitman High School in Bethesda, Maryland,
featuring well-known media personalities, such as
Washington Post publisher Katharine Weymouth,
Gwen Ifill of Washington Week and PBS NewsHour,
and former White House press secretaries Mike
McCurry and Dana Perino.
April:
The IRS awards NLP independent 501(c)(3)
status. NLP had previously operated through
fiscal sponsors.
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.”
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The News Literacy Project
2011
September:
NLP expands into the District of Columbia with
a kickoff event at E.L. Haynes Public Charter
School featuring Gwen Ifill of Washington Week
and PBS NewsHour.
