Who's Funding This?
Assignment Zero is the first editorial project of NewAssignment.Net; it's also the launch of our beta site. New Assignment is a non-profit research project housed at New York University's Department of Journalism. The current funders of NewAssignment.Net (in chronological order) are:
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation: funding for salaries and benefits, 2006-07
Craig Newmark: seed money
The Sunlight Foundation: seed money
Reuters Media: funding for editor's salaries for future NewAssignment projects (more info)
Wired magazine and Wired.com: funding for Editor, Assignment Zero
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation via the Carnegie-Knight Initiative on the Future of Journalism Education: funding for background research, Assignment Zero
Cambrian House: funding for salaries and general support
In-kind contributions
We would like to thank:
Jeff Mignon of Mignon Media for his in-kind support. Jeff donated design services for a prototype of the site.
Lauren Gelman donated consulting services in crafting our Privacy and Copyright policy. She is Associate Director of Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society.
William Drenttel of winterhouse.com and Design Observer donated design consulting and logo treatment.
