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IJJ offers fellowships, conferences and reporting resources to strengthen news coverage involving issues of justice.

IJJ Accepting Proposals for Funding
of Social Justice Reporting Projects

IJJ’s Justice and Journalism Fund is accepting proposals for support of reporting projects related to complex social justice issues, including immigration and borderlands, race and ethnicity, crime and punishment or post-9/11 security and civil rights.

Projects that are accepted will receive funds, ranging from $500 to $5,000, in the form of either stipends or travel expenses support. Both independent journalists and those employed by a news organization are eligible. The Justice and Journalism Fund is supported by the Ford Foundation.

Click here for guidelines and application.

Criminal Justice Conference: Information, Media Coverage

“A 21st Century Criminal Justice System for Los Angeles: A Look at the Present, A Model for the Future and A Blueprint for Media Coverage,” held January 22-24, 2008 at USC.

DVDs Now Available: To purchase a set of conference DVDs, click here.

Bill Boyarsky	Speakers Urge Journalists to Examine Their Role in Criminal Justice Reporting - posted 2/5/2008 It was a conference on criminal justice reform that drew lawyers, judges, law enforcement officials and social service workers, but it was the role of the journalist that shared the spotlight …
Lee Baca	Participants Agree to Consider Reforms as Criminal Justice Conference Ends - posted 1/25/2008 Top criminal justice officials who took part in a three-day conference on how to improve Los Angeles’ criminal justice system agreed Thursday to continue the dialogue and help map out next steps to achieve needed reforms.
Jeanne Woodford	“Catch-and-Release” System Criticized for Lack of Rehabilitation, Reentry Programs - Posted 1/24/2008 With some Californians alarmed over the planned early release of thousands of nonviolent inmates, the former head of the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said she is more troubled by …
	YouTube: Connie Rice dissects L.A.'s gang problem- posted 1/23/2008
Connie Rice	IJJ’s Criminal Justice Conference Opens With Both Warnings and Words of Optimism - posted 1/23/2008 For Connie Rice, an attorney and architect of Los Angeles City’s landmark anti-gang report, changing a mass incarceration strategy to a public health model is critical in dealing with an “endemic epidemic” of violence on community streets.