WHYY is the Philadelphia region's largest public media provider, serving southeastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and all of Delaware. WHYY has studios in Philadelphia and Wilmington, operates WHYY-FM and three 24/7 broadcast television channels, and produces online content.

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Organization

Grants Awarded to WHYY

$14,000 - Awarded December 2021

Focus areas
Community-Centered Journalism
Description

Providing matching dollars to seven local newsrooms—NextCity, Hidden City Philadelphia, Spotlight PA, Prison Journalism Project, Delaware Public Media, WHYY News, WLVT News—in support of this year-end giving campaign.

$150,000 - Awarded May 2021

Focus areas
Community-Centered Journalism
Description

This two-year grant will provide continued programmatic support for initiatives that center source diversity and recruitment, community curation, trust-building, collaboration, digital integration, access, and civic dialogue.

$14,000 - Awarded December 2020

Focus areas
Community-Centered Journalism
Description

Providing matching dollars to seven local newsrooms—Hidden City Philadelphia, Next City, PA Post, Philadelphia Public School Notebook, Spotlight PA, Tarbell, WHYY, PBS 39 / WLVT—in support of this year-end giving campaign.

$10,000 - Awarded July 2020

Focus areas
Community-Centered Journalism
Description

PlanPhilly provides in-depth reporting on Philadelphia neighborhoods with a focus on urban design & planning, transportation & development.

The 2020 Community Voices grant will support a pilot project with PlanPhilly and WHYY Media Labs that will create a model for area newsrooms to integrate anti-racist journalism practices into local public school journalism curriculum and local newsrooms and amplify youth voice while strengthening and diversifying a talent pipeline that for too long been dominated by white students from elite institutions.

$10,000 - Awarded April 2020

Focus areas
Community-Centered Journalism
Description

COVID-19 Emergency Fund to 2019 Grantees.

$14,000 - Awarded December 2019

Focus areas
Community-Centered Journalism
Description

Providing matching dollars to eight local newsrooms—NextCity, Hidden City Philadelphia, Spotlight PA, Chalkbeat Philadelphia, WHYY News, WITF News—in support of this year-end giving campaign.

$250,000 - Awarded July 2019

Focus areas
Community-Centered Journalism
Description

This two-year grant will provide commissioning funds that enable WHYY to expand its work with freelancers and reporters from racially and ethnically diverse media outlets who will produce programming for WHYY News. These efforts will be further supported by cultural competency training for WHYY staff and community engagement events that provide opportunities for conversations around divisive issues and pressing local and national concerns.

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