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Hearst Data Deserts Project

Pulitzer Prize Winner Sara Ganim Joins UF Brechner Center for Freedom of Information

Tuesday June 11, 2019

The Brechner Center for Freedom of Information announced today that Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and former CNN correspondent Sara Ganim will join the Center on July 1 as its first Hearst Journalism Fellow. In April, the Brechner Center, which is housed …

Hearst Foundations Awards Brechner Center $125,000 to Address Government “Data Deserts”

Monday April 8, 2019

The University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications announced today that the Brechner Center for Freedom of Information has been awarded $125,000 from the Hearst Foundations for the Center’s “Data Deserts” initiative. The initiative, …