Advisory Council

News Integrity Initiative

Jaime Abello Banfi, Co-Founder and General Director, Gabriel García Márquez Journalism Foundation (FNPI)

Sarah Bartlett, Dean of the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York

Katharina Borchert, Chief Innovation Officer, Mozilla

John Borthwick, Founder and CEO, Betaworks

Peter Fray, Professor of Journalism Practice, School of Communication, University of Technology, Sydney

Christie George, Director, New Media Ventures

Bobby Ghosh, Former Editor-in-Chief, Hindustan Times

Dan Gillmor, Director of the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship, Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Arizona State University

Richard Gingras, Vice President, News, Google

Shani Hilton, Executive Editor for News, Buzzfeed

Sabrina Hersi Issa, CEO, Be Bold Media

Áine Kerr, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer, Neva Labs

Sally Lehrman, Director, Trust Project and Journalism Program, Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University

Kelly McBride, Vice President, The Poynter Institute

Bruno Patino, Dean, SciencesPo, École de Journalisme

Jennifer Preston, Vice President for Journalism, Knight Foundation

Deb Roy, Director of the Laboratory for Social Machines, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Chief Media Scientist, Twitter

Adam Thomas, Director, European Journalism Centre (EJC)

Irving Washington, Executive Director, Online News Association (ONA)

Paul Waters, Senior Program Associate, Democracy Fund

In addition to the advisory council, NII is governed by a three-person executive committee, including Meredith Carden, strategic partner development – integrity at Facebook; Craig Newmark, founder of craigslist; and Jeff Jarvis, director of the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism.

The News Integrity Initiative is a project of the Foundation for the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism under the auspices of the school’s Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism. The fund is seeded with $14 million in grants from a coalition of partners, which currently include Facebook, Craig Newmark Philanthropic Fund, Ford Foundation, AppNexus, Knight Foundation, Tow Foundation, Betaworks, Mozilla, and Democracy Fund.