Jaime Abello Banfi, Co-Founder and General Director, Gabriel García Márquez Journalism Foundation (FNPI)
Sarah Bartlett, Dean of the CUNY 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 Campbell Brown, head of news partnerships at Facebook; Craig Newmark, founder of craigslist; and Jeff Jarvis, director of the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.
The News Integrity Initiative is a project of the Foundation for the CUNY 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.