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Editor’s Note: Encyclo has not been regularly updated since August 2014, so information posted here is likely to be out of date and may be no longer accurate. It’s best used as a snapshot of the media landscape at that point in time.

The Hechinger Report is a nonprofit news organization that specializes in in-depth education reporting.

The Report is a project of the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media at the Columbia University Teacher’s College. It was launched in October 2009 with $1 million in initial funding from the Lumina Foundation for Education and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and its website was created in May 2010. It distributes its work through its website, as well as syndication partnerships with other news organizations, such as Education Week and MinnPost. It has collaborated with as many as 14 other news organizations on a single story. The Report allows anyone to republish any of its content online for free with credit and a link.

The site has four full-time editorial employees, with much of its work coming from freelancers. The site runs several education blogs as well.

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Jan. 24, 2020 / Ken Doctor

Newsonomics: Here are 20 epiphanies for the news business of the 2020s — It is the best of times for The New York Times — and likely the worst of times for all the local newspapers with Times (or Gazette or Sun or Telegram or Journal) in their nameplates across the land. When I spoke at sta...

June 25, 2018 / Shan Wang

When it comes to launching serious, sustainable membership programs for journalism, ask for more, more often, and aim higher — Many more journalism organizations have been investing real money and time to get their membership programs in order. That means more work — and business — for the News Revenue Hub, which facilitates membership progr...

Sept. 20, 2010 / Laura McGann

L.A. Times’ controversial teacher database attracted traffic and got funding from a nontraditional source — Not so long ago, a hefty investigative series from the Los Angeles Times might have lived its life in print, starting on a Monday and culminating with abig package in the Sunday paper. But the web creates the potential f...

Oct. 27, 2009 / Joshua Benton

Hechinger announces new nonprofit to cover education — Looks like someone at Columbia agrees with their colleague Michael Schudson‘s argument that universities should get more involved in creating original journalism. The Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media ...

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