Knight Program in Media and Religion Awarded Luce Grant

The Knight Program in Media and Religion has been awarded a three-year, $600,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation to promote innovative reporting on religion and international affairs. The project is a collaboration between the Knight Program, the Annenberg Innovation Lab and GlobalPost, an online news site, with the goal of enhancing and expanding coverage of religion and international relations by supporting journalism across multi-media platforms, promoting academic research, providing discussion opportunities for journalists and scholars, and developing cutting-edge online resources that elucidate issues, trends and history. The grant begins January 1, 2013.