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Scripps Howard Fund and Scripps Howard Foundation gave $11 million in charitable gifts in 2025

CINCINNATI – The Scripps Howard Fund and Scripps Howard Foundation, nonprofit organizations, awarded $11 million to community and journalism programs during 2025, a 12% increase from 2024.

The Scripps Howard Fund and Scripps Howard Foundation support communities where The E.W. Scripps Company does business, while their journalism programs and funding reach people across the country. The Fund and Foundation also partner with the Scripps and Howard families to support causes important to them.

“In 2025, we saw communities across the country strengthened through the power of connection – whether it was giving children the gift of books, equipping aspiring journalists with the skills to tell important stories or rallying together in times of crisis,” said Meredith Delaney, president and CEO of the Scripps Howard Fund. “Our vision to uplift communities guided every grant and campaign, and our mission continues to drive this meaningful work.”

The Fund’s 2025 giving included:

$2.3 million invested in communities served by The E.W. Scripps Company

Scripps-owned local television stations and Scripps Networks held 41 fundraising campaigns in 2025 and received more than 6,700 donations.
The Fund supported more than 91 charities within Scripps’ communities, providing help to those who need it most.
In collaboration with the Scripps News Group, the Fund raised nearly $270,000 through disaster relief campaigns – including $127,000 for those impacted by the devastating floods in Central Texas.

$1.7 million to improve childhood literacy

In 2025, the “If You Give a Child a Book …” program invested $1.7 million to provide 280,000 books to students in the Fund’s 93 Title I partner schools.
Additionally, the Fund raised a record-breaking $1.9 million for childhood literacy during its annual campaign, which will provide more than 300,000 books to 34,000 students throughout 2026.

$1.5 million to advance journalism education

During the 72nd Scripps Howard Journalism Awards, the Fund awarded $140,000 across 12 categories, recognizing news organizations and journalists who produced some of the most impactful journalism in 2024. For the first time, winners received a travel stipend/honorarium to visit universities and engage directly with journalism students.
Twenty-five paid interns gained real-world experience working in newsrooms across the country.
The Fund provided grants to four community colleges to support journalism education programs and foster experiential learning with the goal of empowering students from a variety of backgrounds and equipping them with the necessary skills to thrive in the media industry.

The Foundation’s 2025 giving included:

$5.4 million to advance journalism education

The Foundation invested $2.7 million to continue its support for the Howard Centers for Investigative Journalism at the University of Maryland and Arizona State University. In collaboration with The Associated Press and Frontline, the Howard Centers’ investigation ‘Lethal Restraint’ received a 2025 Edward R. Murrow Award and was named a finalist for a 2025 Pulitzer Prize. In 2025, the Foundation awarded each of the Howard Centers with a three-year grant that will allow the schools to test and pilot several AI tools that support local news.
The Foundation funded more than $410,000 in grants for Roy W. Howard fellows, helping them refine their journalism skills.
In 2025, the Foundation launched the Roy Howard Community Journalism Center at the University of Southern Mississippi.  During its inaugural year, the Center trained 47 student journalists, produced 200+ local stories and partnered with more than 60 media outlets to strengthen news coverage across southeast Mississippi.

Media contact: Molly Miossi, The E.W. Scripps Company, 513-977-3713, [email protected]

About the Scripps Howard Fund
The Scripps Howard Fund, a public charity established by The E.W. Scripps Company (NASDAQ: SSP), is dedicated to creating informed and engaged communities through journalism education, childhood literacy and local causes. At the crossroads of the classroom and the newsroom, the Fund is a leader in supporting journalism through scholarships, internships, minority recruitment and development and First Amendment causes. The Scripps Howard Awards stand as one of the industry’s top honors for outstanding journalism. The Fund’s annual “If You Give a Child a Book …” childhood literacy campaign has distributed thousands of new books to children in need across the nation. The Fund partners with Scripps brands to create awareness of local issues and support organizations that build thriving communities. The Scripps Howard Fund administers funding for the Scripps Howard Foundation, a private foundation established in 1962 to advance charitable causes important to The E.W. Scripps Company and the Scripps and Howard families.

About the Scripps Howard Foundation
The Scripps Howard Foundation is a private foundation established in 1962 to advance charitable causes important to The E.W. Scripps Company (NASDAQ: SSP) and the Scripps and Howard families. The Foundation is dedicated to creating informed and engaged communities through journalism education.

Scripps Howard Foundation awards Roy W. Howard Fellowships to three investigative journalists

CINCINNATI – The Scripps Howard Foundation has awarded yearlong Roy W. Howard Fellowships to three Arizona State University graduates, giving them hands-on investigative reporting experience working at major media outlets.

The new class of fellows will work in nonprofit newsrooms across the country, including Connecticut Public, Flatwater Free Press and Mississippi Today.

The fellowship program, established in 2020, honor Roy W. Howard, former chairman of the Scripps Howard newspaper chain and a pioneering news reporter whose relentless pursuit of the news took him around the world, spurred innovation and helped lay the groundwork for modern journalism.

The fellowships are given to graduates of the Howard Centers for Investigative Journalism at the University of Maryland and Arizona State University. The Howard Centers were established in 2018.

The 11th class of Roy W. Howard fellows:

Emma Croteau has joined Flatwater Free Press in Nebraska. Croteau received her Master of Arts degree in investigative journalism from ASU’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science. As an investigative journalist for ASU’s Howard Center, her reporting focused on law enforcement policies, including the use of force. Croteau’s coverage has ranged from healthcare and the impacts of international aid cuts on vulnerable populations in Panama to unique businesses and communities in Arizona, such as the state’s only collegiate sailing team. She has contributed to international news outlets including The New York Times and CBS News.

Isabelle Marceles has joined Connecticut Public’s Accountability Project to report on education, housing, government and economic issues across the state. Marceles earned both her bachelor’s degree in journalism and Master of Arts in investigative journalism at ASU’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Her accountability reporting centers on telling people-focused stories through visual and data-driven journalism at the international, national and local level. In Panama, Marceles documented the release of hundreds of migrants deported from the United States. At the Howard Center, she led complex data and public records driven investigations, including analyses of police use-of-force programs and successful appeals for previously denied law enforcement data. She has contributed to national reporting with CBS News and the Scripps News Group and is active in the ASU chapter of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, the Arizona Latino Media Association and Investigative Reporters and Editors.

Madeline Nguyen, a Society of Professional Journalists award-winning investigative reporter, is joining Mississippi Today. Nguyen’s mission is to unite data and in-depth reporting to tell stories about the hidden disparities that shape people’s lives. She has led data-driven investigations at the local level through ASU’s Howard Center, and at the national level as a congressional correspondent for the Washington bureau of Cronkite News – Arizona PBS. She recently earned a Master of Arts in investigative journalism from ASU’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and also holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism and political science from ASU. Her work has uncovered millions in unused federal funds for Arizona’s homeless students, discovered critical gaps in edited body-camera footage released by the Phoenix Police Department, and contributed to an investigation by The Guardian that sparked a consumer petition against pricing practices at the grocery giant Kroger.

Learn more about the Howard Centers for Investigative Journalism.

Media contact: Molly Miossi, 513-977-3713, [email protected]

Scripps Howard Fund accepting entries for the 73rd Scripps Howard Journalism Awards

CINCINNATI – The 73rd Scripps Howard Journalism Awards, one of the nation’s most prestigious American journalism competitions, is now accepting submissions through Jan. 30 for journalism produced in 2025. The awards include $140,000 in prize money across 12 categories.

Click here to submit an entry for the 73rd Scripps Howard Journalism Awards.

With a focus on high-impact and investigative reporting, the awards honor work from television stations, networks, radio and podcasts, visual media, online media outlets, independent producers, newspapers and other print publications.

Categories include:

Audio Storytelling
Business/Financial Reporting
Environmental Reporting
Distinguished Service to the First Amendment
Narrative Human-Interest Storytelling
Visual Human-Interest Storytelling
Local/Regional Investigative Reporting
National/International Investigative Reporting
Opinion Writing
Local Video Storytelling
National/International Video Storytelling

Find the full category descriptions here.

Finalists for the 73rd Scripps Howard Journalism Awards will be announced in the spring. In addition to the prize money and a trophy, award winners will receive a travel stipend/honorarium to visit a university and present their entry to journalism students.

“Journalists document the events and lives that define our era. We honor the courage, curiosity and craft that create this lasting record – work that informs, illuminates and endures,” said Mike Canan, senior director of journalism strategies for the Scripps Howard Fund. “We look forward to recognizing bold, inventive reporting across all platforms and helping winners amplify their stories and share lessons with the next generation.”

The Impact Award winner is chosen from the winners of the other 11 categories. Last year’s Impact Award recipient – STAT’s “Health Care’s Colossus” – revealed an empire that profits at the expense of taxpayers, patients and clinicians.

View the gallery of finalists and winners from the 72nd Scripps Howard Journalism Awards here.

Media contact: Molly Miossi, The E.W. Scripps Company, 513-977-3713, [email protected]

Scripps Howard Fund invests record-breaking $1.8 million to provide books for children at low-income schools

CINCINNATI – The Scripps Howard Fund’s ninth annual “If You Give a Child a Book …” campaign will invest a record-breaking $1.8 million during the 2025-2026 academic year, which will provide more than 300,000 books to children at low-income schools across the United States.

The childhood literacy campaign is supported by The E.W. Scripps Company (NASDAQ: SSP) and the communities it serves, Scripps employees and Scripps family members. This campaign aims to reach underserved children by distributing free books to kids in kindergarten through fifth grade who are still working toward reading proficiency.

For every $12, the Fund provides two books to a child in need.

“This campaign milestone showcases the power of community connection – when Scripps employees, generous donors and dedicated partners come together to put books in the hands of children who need them most,” said Carrie High, director of philanthropic strategies for the Scripps Howard Fund. “These 300,000 books will open new doors to stories, ideas and opportunities, planting the seeds for future success.”

Watch: Detroit students receive the gift of reading

Through a partnership with Scholastic Books, the Fund organizes free Scholastic Book Fairs for approximately 100 partner Title 1 schools across the country. Students are given the opportunity to choose their own age-appropriate books. These free book fairs occur throughout the school year, with the goal of ensuring that every student in the low-income schools they support receives 10 books annually to build their home libraries.

With the funds raised through this year’s campaign, the total number of books distributed since the program started in 2016 will surpass 1.8 million.

To learn more and donate visit ifyougiveabook.com.

Media contact: Molly Miossi, The E.W. Scripps Company, 513-977-3713, [email protected]

Donate today: Scripps Howard Fund matches contributions to “If You Give a Child a Book …” campaign

CINCINNATI – Donations made today to the Scripps Howard Fund’s “If You Give a Child a Book …” campaign will be matched. The Fund will double the first $200,000 in donations received on Wednesday, Sept. 3, to the childhood literacy initiative, which provides free books to children in low-income schools across the United States.

A $12 donation today will provide four books instead of two.
Donate today: Make a difference and double your impact.

The “If You Give a Child a Book …” campaign is supported by The E.W. Scripps Company (NASDAQ: SSP) and its employees, the communities it serves and Scripps family members. This campaign aims to reach underserved children by distributing free books to kids in kindergarten through third grade who are still developing their reading skills.

The Fund is committed to empowering children by providing them with the freedom to choose their reading materials. In collaboration with Scholastic Books, the Fund offers free Scholastic Book Fairs to Title I schools across the country, providing students with the power of choice to select the books they get to take home. These free book fairs occur throughout the school year, with the goal of ensuring that every student in the low-income schools they support receives 10 books annually.

“When children have access to books, they don’t just get to enjoy great stories—they build connections with friends, family and their community,” said Carrie High, director of philanthropic strategies for the Scripps Howard Fund. “When children are empowered to read what interests them, they develop a shared sense of belonging and understanding. Each book is a tool for connection, imagination and growth.”

During the 2024-25 academic year, the “If You Give a Child a Book …” campaign invested a record-breaking $1.5 million in childhood literacy and provided over 296,000 new books to children.

To learn more and donate visit ifyougiveabook.com.

Media contact: Molly Miossi, The E.W. Scripps Company, 513-977-3713, [email protected]

Scripps Howard Foundation invests $11 million to support Howard Centers for Investigative Journalism

CINCINNATI – The Scripps Howard Foundation is extending its support for the Howard Centers for Investigative Journalism with two grants totaling $11 million over the next three years. The funding will allow the Howard Centers at Arizona State University and the University of Maryland to continue teaching students the skills needed to become top investigative journalists.

Established in 2018, the Howard Centers honor the legacy of Roy W. Howard, former chairman of the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain and a pioneering news reporter. Apart from these two new grants, the Foundation has provided a total of $13 million to the Howard Centers since their inception, enabling the schools to establish investigative training programs and pilot several artificial intelligence tools that support local news.

“The Howard Centers are leaders in developing investigative journalists, earning national recognition for their investigative work and training programs,” said Mike Canan, senior director of journalism strategies for the Scripps Howard Foundation. “They are producing the next generation of investigative reporters while also producing difference-making journalism.”

Professional organizations including The Associated Press have invited students from ASU and UMD to collaborate on major investigations, such as ‘Lethal Restraint,’ which received a 2025 Edward R. Murrow Award and was named a finalist for a 2025 Pulitzer Prize.

Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at Arizona State University
The Foundation has awarded the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University a $5.7 million grant to expand the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism and significantly grow its impact at the local, regional and national levels.

The funding will launch a suite of major new initiatives, including a statewide accountability reporting effort called The Beam; a national Inclusive Excellence in Journalism Fellowship, designed to expand access to investigative training; and an expansion of Cronkite’s investigative curriculum, graduate training and newsroom partnerships.

View a collection of work from ASU’s Howard Center.

Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at the University of Maryland
The Foundation awarded the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism a $5.5 million grant. The funding will be used to increase the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism’s national footprint and impact by creating a national data hub for journalists, academics, policymakers and civil society organizations.

The grant will allow the Center to expand the number of its investigative fellows and increase their scholarship support. It also will allow the Center to fully incorporate artificial intelligence and open-source intelligence reporting and broaden students’ investigative storytelling techniques to include more data visualizations, documentaries and social media content to help reach new audiences.

View a collection of work from UMD’s Howard Center.

Media contact: Molly Miossi, 513-977-3713, [email protected]

Veteran honored with S.J. Dilenschneider Community Award for providing free housing to those in need

CINCINNATI – The Scripps Howard Fund is honoring Vietnam veteran Patrick Bell with the annual S.J. Dilenschneider Community Award for his efforts in offering free housing to hundreds of individuals at his farmhouse in Michigan.

The award honors the late S.J. Dilenschneider, a longtime executive with Scripps-Howard newspapers. A panel of judges selected Bell from nominees recommended by Scripps’ local television stations across the country.

WXYZ anchor Carolyn Clifford with veteran Patrick Bell

The award, including a $10,000 cash prize, is given to an individual or group of individuals in Scripps’ local markets who exemplify the spirit of Dilenschneider and The E.W. Scripps Company (NASDAQ: SSP). Civility, leadership, community spirit and mentorship are among the criteria used to select the winner.

Bell, who served as a U.S. Marine in the Vietnam War in 1969 and 1970, established the Caroline House in 2013. The Lapeer, Michigan, farmhouse lodges about 20 people – primarily veterans – completely for free, as they work to get back on their feet.

“Mr. Bell exemplifies the spirit of S.J. Dilenschneider by noticing an often-overlooked issue in his community and finding a solution.” said Meredith Delaney, president and CEO of the Scripps Howard Fund. “He empowers Caroline House residents to find jobs and affordable housing – all while making sure they feel like family. He provides a home, not just a shelter.”

Since opening Caroline House, Bell has provided housing to more than 300 people in the community.

WXYZ, Scripps’ local ABC affiliate in Detroit, surprised Bell with the S.J. Dilenschneider Community Award on July 17. Watch the video here.

Media contact: Molly Miossi, The E.W. Scripps Company, 513-977-3713, [email protected]

Scripps Howard Foundation selects five investigative journalists for the Roy W. Howard Fellowship Program

CINCINNATI – Five journalists who graduated from the University of Maryland will receive hands-on investigative reporting experience working at major media outlets as the new class of Roy W. Howard Fellows. The Scripps Howard Foundation is funding the yearlong fellowships.

The nonprofit newsrooms hosting the fellows during the program are: NPR, Inside Climate News, Wisconsin Watch, the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting and The Maine Monitor.

The fellowships honor Roy W. Howard, former chairman of the Scripps Howard newspaper chain and a pioneering news reporter whose relentless pursuit of the news took him around the world, spurred innovation and helped lay the groundwork for modern journalism.

The fellowships, which are awarded biannually, are given to graduates of the Howard Centers for Investigative Journalism at the University of Maryland and Arizona State University. The Howard Centers were established in 2018.

The 2025-26 Roy W. Howard Fellows:

Aidan Hughes
Hughes is an investigative data journalist from Westfield, New Jersey. He found his way into journalism after completing a master’s degree in conflict transformation at a university in Northern Ireland and an undergraduate degree in international studies and creative writing. Having worked previously in the private sector on data privacy issues, Hughes is passionate about building data tools for journalists that allow them to report on stories that would otherwise go untold. During his time at the Howard Center, Hughes contributed to data and investigative projects on privately sponsored travel for members of Congress. He built an archive of over 100,000 (and counting) Foreign Agent Registration Act filings and is currently developing a pipeline to extract valuable information from thousands of PDFs using a large language model. In July, he began his fellowship at Inside Climate News, where he reports on Congress and the current administration’s impact on the environment.

Paul Kiefer
As an investigative journalist, Kiefer has covered police union contracts, prison bureaucracy and rural sheriffs in Washington state; poultry, homelessness and corporate personhood in Delaware; and public transit funding, coal mining and immigration in Maryland. His reporting has appeared in High Country News and the Minnesota Star Tribune and has been credited by The Baltimore Banner and NPR, among other outlets. After receiving a master’s degree in data journalism from the University of Maryland, Kiefer is interning at The Washington Post this summer before beginning his Roy W. Howard fellowship with Wisconsin Watch in September. Kiefer is from Washington state.

Adriana Navarro
Navarro is an award-winning investigative and data journalist from Charlotte, North Carolina. She began her career in the weather industry, reporting on everything from live coverage of severe weather outbreaks to large data projects following disaster recovery efforts at AccuWeather. Navarro earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism from Ohio University in 2018 with a specialization and certificate in women, gender and sexuality studies. After a few years reporting at AccuWeather, she became a part of the Howard Center at the University of Maryland, where she led a team investigating how lobbyists exploit legal loopholes to privately fund congressional travel. The story, which POLITICO also published, was part of a larger project that won an Investigative Reporters and Editors Award in the large student project category. She has since interned at The Washington Post and The Baltimore Banner on their respective data desks, covering topics ranging from Baltimore’s opioid crisis to crypto’s role in the 2024 elections. In July, she began her fellowship at the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting, where she covers topics that fall within the intersection of gender, politics and policy.

Taylor Nichols
Nichols started her journalism career at her community college student newspaper in Bellingham, Washington, over a decade ago. Since then, her reporting has taken her across the map, from political reporting at the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago to covering housing and addiction in Washington, D.C. After earning her bachelor’s degree in journalism at Western Washington University, she went on to cover higher education, breaking down government data sets on salaries and student loan debt to help students make informed decisions about college. This work prompted her to study data journalism at the University of Maryland in 2023. In the first year of her graduate program, Nichols started freelancing for Street Sense, a publication covering homelessness in Washington, D.C. There, she created an application to scrape and analyze data on scheduled evictions, providing a way to easily monitor housing issues in the city and identify which communities are most at risk for eviction. After spending the summer on the data and investigations team at Bloomberg Industry Group, she will start her fellowship covering housing at The Maine Monitor in September.

Caley Fox Shannon
Shannon joined the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism in 2023 after nearly five years working as a documentary film producer. After obtaining her degree in French from Carleton College, she began her storytelling career at Breakwater Studios in Los Angeles. There, she co-produced numerous short films, including “A Concerto Is A Conversation,” which was nominated for Best Documentary, Short Subject at the 2021 Academy Awards. Her first feature documentary, “Fire Department, Inc.,” follows a small firefighting union’s heroic battle against the illegal privatization of their department in suburban Chicago. She was also a contributing producer to the Video Consortium’s “Rough Cut” podcast and associate-produced the 2024 Scripps Howard Journalism Awards. Additionally, Shannon produced award-winning work in the master’s program at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism. Her audio reporting on divisions within the Fairfax County school board earned recognition from the Broadcast Education Association Awards. The Society for Professional Journalists awarded the 2024 Mark of Excellence in narrative podcasting to “Vinyl Revival,” a long-form piece Shannon co-executive produced on the renaissance of Zamrock, Zambia’s lost psychedelic genre. She also co-wrote the lead story in the Howard Center’s exposé on how lobbyists exploit legal loopholes to privately fund travel for House staffers. This story, published on POLITICO, won the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award for a large student project. Shannon begins her fellowship at NPR in July. There, she will report for one year as part of their investigations team.

Learn more about the Howard Centers for Investigative Journalism.

Media contact: Molly Miossi, 513-977-3713, [email protected]

Scripps Howard Fund announces winners of 72nd Scripps Howard Journalism Awards

CINCINNATI – The winners of the 72nd Scripps Howard Journalism Awards exemplify the power of journalism in bringing to light critical societal issues. From revelations of financial mismanagement in a global hospital chain to insights into a deadly wildfire, this year’s winners made significant contributions to journalism in 2024.

The Scripps Howard Journalism Awards, one of the nation’s most prestigious journalism competitions, honor work from television stations and networks, radio and podcasts, visual media, online media outlets, independent producers, newspapers and print publications. A panel of veteran journalists and media leaders selected the winners from nearly 600 entries across 12 categories.

The Scripps Howard Fund will present $140,000 in prize money to the winning news organizations and journalists, including the winner of the coveted Impact Award. The Impact Award winner is deemed to have had the greatest impact from among the list of winners.

“Collectively, these winners exemplify the power of journalism to inform, engage and inspire change,” said Meredith Delaney, president and CEO of the Scripps Howard Fund. “Their impactful storytelling highlights the need for accountability and the consequences of systemic failures on vulnerable communities.”

The 72nd Scripps Howard Journalism Awards winners are:

Excellence in Audio Storytelling: KUOW Public Radio, The Seattle Times – “Lost Patients”

Excellence in Business/Financial Reporting: The Boston Globe with contributions by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project – “Spotlight coverage of Steward Health Care”

Excellence in Environmental Reporting, honoring Edward W. “Ted” Scripps II: The Guardian U.S., Forensic Architecture – “Marathon: The Huge U.S. Toxic Fire Shrouded in Secrecy”

Distinguished Service to the First Amendment, honoring Edward Willis Scripps: The News & Observer – “Power and Secrecy”

Excellence in Local/Regional Investigative Reporting: San Francisco Chronicle in collaboration with University of California, Berkeley Investigative Reporting Program – “Right to Remain Secret”

Excellence in Local Video Storytelling, honoring Jack. R. Howard: FRONTLINE (PBS) – “Maui’s Deadly Firestorm”

Excellence in Narrative Human-Interest Storytelling, honoring Ernie Pyle: The New York Times – “America, Polarized”

Excellence in National/International Investigative Reporting, the Ursula and Gilbert Farfel Prize: STAT – “Health Care’s Colossus”

Excellence in National/International Video Storytelling, honoring Roy W. Howard: FRONTLINE (PBS) – “A Year of War: Israelis and Palestinians”

Excellence in Opinion Writing: Detroit Free Press, Eye On Michigan – “Michigan’s Watchdog is ‘On Guard’”

Excellence in Visual Human-Interest Storytelling: ProPublica – “The Year After a Denied Abortion”

Impact Award: STAT – “Health Care’s Colossus”

Judges’ comments: “In an exceptionally strong field of investigative entries, STAT’s ‘Health Care Colossus’ stood out. STAT examined UnitedHealth, a corporate behemoth that provides health insurance to more than 50 million people. Combining old-fashioned shoe leather reporting and cutting-edge data analysis, STAT’s journalists revealed how UnitedHealth has used its vast network of doctors to reduce competition while increasing profits at the expense of patients and taxpayers. As STAT noted in the first of a series of deeply researched stories, UnitedHealth’s doctors have engaged in a ‘strategy to make their patients seem as sick as possible,’ while transforming medicine throughout the nation ‘into an assembly line that treats millions of patients as products to be monetized.’ STAT’s reporting prompted calls for reform by federal and state lawmakers. ”

View the gallery of finalists here.

In addition to the prize money and trophy, Scripps Howard Journalism Award winners will also receive a travel stipend/honorarium to visit a university this fall and present their entry to journalism students.

“This new program presents a unique opportunity for these students to learn directly from some of the best journalists in the country,” said Mike Canan, senior director of journalism strategies for the Scripps Howard Fund. “Students will be able to network and produce stories about the visit – preparing them for the future of journalism.”

View the full list of universities participating in this program here.

The Scripps Howard Fund, in partnership with the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, also recognizes the winners for its two journalism education awards:

Teacher of the Year: Mark Horvit, professor, University of Missouri School of Journalism

Administrator of the Year: Marie Hardin, dean, Pennsylvania State University’s Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications

Learn more about past Scripps Howard Journalism Award winners at SHJAwards.org.

Media contact: Molly Miossi, The E.W. Scripps Company, 513-977-3713, [email protected]

Scripps Howard Foundation provides grants to support and train international investigative journalists

CINCINNATI – The Scripps Howard Foundation is providing nearly $500,000 to help the award-winning Howard Centers for Investigative Journalism launch online training programs that will make in-depth investigative journalism training accessible to professional journalists in the U.S. and around the world.

The Foundation established the Howard Centers, located at Arizona State University and the University of Maryland, in 2018 to honor the legacy of Roy W. Howard, former chairman of the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain. Both centers are leaders in training the next generation of investigative and data reporters.

The online training programs, which will roll out in phases, will be developed by the Howard Centers and marketed to the International Center for Journalists’ (ICFJ) broad network of international journalists. The programs also will be marketed to U.S. journalists. The programs will offer journalists up-to-date investigative training courses that are both cost-conscious and virtual, expanding access to world-class investigative instruction across the globe.

Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at Arizona State University
The Foundation will provide ASU with $200,000 to support the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism Editing Program, a 12-course program focused on training journalists in investigative editing skills. Participants can take one or more of the 12 courses, though they must complete all 12 to receive a certificate of completion from ASU. Learners can complete the training on their own timeline during a designated 10-day period for each course. They also can interact with professional faculty who helped develop the training via live Zoom sessions at the conclusion of each course. ASU launched the program to the first cohort of learners in January. The second cohort launches in June.

In addition to receiving international marketing support from ICFJ, ASU’s program will also be promoted in the U.S. by Investigative Reporters and Editors, a nonprofit focused on improving the quality of investigative journalism. Tuition for ASU is $300 per course, or $3,000 for the full 12-course certification. Participants can apply for a scholarship – funded by the Scripps Howard Foundation grant – if they take the entire 12-course program. For more information, visit the program’s website.

Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at the University of Maryland
The Foundation will give UMD $200,000 to create four courses focused on training participants in data journalism. The first two courses from UMD will begin in August, and the final two will launch in January. UMD’s courses will be self-paced.

In addition to support from ICFJ, Merrill’s program will be promoted by the Center for Media Integrity of the Americas, an organization that trains and supports journalists in Latin America.

Tuition for UMD’s four-course program will be $1,500, though participants who wish to take individual courses may do so at a cost of $500 each. Like ASU, participants can apply for a scholarship – funded by the Scripps Howard Foundation grant. When the program launches, UMD will grant scholarships for individual courses and the full four-course program.

International Center for Journalists
The Foundation will grant ICFJ $86,000 to market the certificate programs to international journalists. ICFJ will vet and recommend international scholarship recipients and facilitate a cohort of international participants for the ASU certificate program’s second cohort, which begins in June. ICFJ will also market UMD’s program when it rolls out.

Media contact: Molly Miossi, 513-977-3713, [email protected]

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