Catch up on the latest from the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation and our grantee partners.
DOC NYC
November 13, 2024
DOC NYC will honor Firelight Media co-founder and president Marcia Smith with a Lifetime Achievement Award at its 2024 Visionaries Tribute on November 13.
Ken Light
October 10 – November 17, 2024
The Bronx Documentary Center will showcase three decades of work by Ken Light, Reva & David Logan Professor of Photojournalism at UC Berkeley, from October 10 – November 17.
Out the Vote
October 8, 2024
Fillmmaker Vivian Kleiman released Out the Vote, a series of non-partisan short videos urging young queer people to vote in the upcoming elections.
Center for Journalism & Democracy
October 8, 2024
The Center for Journalism & Democracy at Howard University will host its 3rd Annual Democracy Summit on October 8 in Washington, DC. The event will be available to stream online.
Purpose Prize
October 1, 2024
Congratulations to Jon Eldan, founder and executive director of After Innocence, who received a 2025 Purpose Prize from AARP. The award honors nonprofit founders age 50 and older who create impactful solutions to address important social problems.
Documentary Emmys
September 26, 2024
Congratulations to filmmaker Abby Ginzberg and FRONTLINE editor-in-chief and executive producer Raney Aronson Rath, who were both honored with the 2024 Silver Circle Award.
The Choice 2024
September 24, 2024
Check out two new FRONTLINE documentaries: The Choice 2024: Harris vs. Trump by Michael Kirk premieres on PBS on September 24 and The VP Choice 2024: Vance vs. Walz premieres on October 8.
Raney Aronson-Rath
September 19, 2024
Columbia Journalism School announced that Raney Aronson-Rath, editor-in-chief and executive producer of FRONTLINE, has been named the winner of the 2024 John Chancellor Excellence in Journalism Award.
Generative AI Best Practices
September 13, 2024
The Archival Producers Alliance and their guidelines to using AI in documentary film feature in How AI Could Ruin Documentary Film by Polluting the Truth by KQED’s Rachael Myrow.
MLK50
September 5, 2024
MLK50: Justice Through Journalism received two awards at the 2025 LION Sustainability Summit, which celebrates sustainable local journalism.
ProPublica Local Reporting Network
July 26, 2024
ProPublica announced the selection of three new partner newsrooms for its Local Reporting Network. The selected newsrooms are JLFF grantee the Invisible Institute, Arizona Luminaria and New York Amsterdam News. The newsrooms will dedicate a reporter for a three-year term to focus solely on investigative reporting, in collaboration with ProPublica’s editors and specialized teams.
Cabot Prize
July 10, 2024
Laura Zommer of Factchequeado received a special citation from Columbia Journalism School’s 2024 Maria Moors Cabot Prize, which recognizes journalists who contribute to Inter-American understanding. Zommer received the citation for leading the fight for transparency using technology and digital journalism tools.
Livingston Award
June 11, 2024
Samantha Hogan of the Maine Monitor was awarded the Livingston Award for Local Reporting for her investigation into Maine’s probate court system. The Livingston Award is a national contest honoring journalists under the age of 35. Samantha’s investigation was part of a collaboration between the Investigative Editing Corps and Report for America.
Peabody Awards
May 9, 2024
Congratulations to the JLFF grantees who are this year’s Peabody Award winners.
- The Invisible Institute – winner in the Podcast and Radio category for You Didn’t See Nothin.
- FRONTLINE – winner in the News category for Clarence and Ginni Thomas: Politics, Power and the Supreme Court.
Pulitzer Prize
May 6, 2024
Congratulations to the JLFF grantees who are this year’s Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists.
- ProPublica – winner of the Public Service Award for the Friends of the Court series.
- Invisible Institute – winner of the Local Reporting award for Missing in Chicago.
- Invisible Institute – winner of the Audio Reporting award for You Didn’t See Nothin.
- FRONTLINE and ProPublica – finalists for Explanatory Reporting around the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, including Inside the Uvalde Response.
- Mississippi Today – finalist for Local Reporting for Unfettered Power: Mississippi Sheriffs.
- The Marshall Project – finalist for Feature Writing for When Wizards and Orcs Came to Death Row.
Peabody nominations
April 23, 2024
Peabody Award nominations were announced for Hidden Letters and The Picture Taker in the Documentary category, the Invisible Institute’s You Didn’t See Nothin in the Podcast & Radio category and Frontline’s Clarence and Ginni Thomas: Politcs, Power and the Supreme Court. Congratulations to the nominees!
Logan Elevate Grants
April 2, 2024
The International Documentary Association announced the 2024 recipients of the Logan Elevate Grant, which supports emerging women and non-binary documentary filmmakers of color. This year’s recipients are Asmahan Bkerat for Concrete Land, Cherish Oteka for Gay Games and Sharon Yeung for We Are Volcanoes.
The Poet and the Silk Girl
March 26, 2024
The Poet and the Silk Girl follows one Japanese American family’s story of survival and resistance after being forcibly displaced and incarcerated during WWII. The new memoir by Satsuki Ina will be released by Heyday Books on March 26.
Sisters in Cinema
March 15, 2024
Sisters in Cinema celebrated the grand opening of the Sisters in Cinema Media Arts Center in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago on March 15. The new center will be a space for Black women and gender non-conforming media makers and community members to showcase their work and collaborate with fellow creatives.
Academy Awards
March 10, 2024
20 Days in Mariupol, a production of FRONTLINE and The Associated Press, received an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
CIR merger
February 1, 2024
Mother Jones and The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) announced their merger into one nonprofit news outlet.
Democracy on Trial
January 30, 2024
The new FRONTLINE documentary Democracy on Trial by Michael Kirk premieres on PBS on Tuesday, January 30.
Sugarcane
January 20, 2024
The documentary film Sugarcane by Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Directing Award in the U.S. Documentary category.
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