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The Ira A. Lipman Center for Journalism and Civil and Human Rights at the Columbia Journalism School announces the 2021 Lipman Fellows and three special grants.

Robert Smith, the award-winning host of NPR’s Planet Money, will become the director of the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business Journalism starting July 1. He will also join Columbia Journalism School’s faculty.

The Brown Institute for Media Innovation has been awarded a $500,000 two-year grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation as part of a $3 million initiative to support the use of artificial intelligence to strengthen the sustainability of local news organizations.

The Ira A. Lipman Center for Journalism and Human and Civil Rights has launched a two-year $500,000 reporting project for local newsrooms to investigate systemic racism in the criminal justice system. 

Did you know two J-School graduates were part of 2021 Academy Award-winning films? We went behind the scenes with Jessica Bruder and Sarah Jenks to learn how they went from the J-School to the Oscars.