Who is behind NewsTrust?
NewsTrust’s Executive Director is Fabrice Florin, a former journalist and a digital media pioneer at Apple and Macromedia. Our technology director, David Fox, has worked with new media technology for more than three decades and was a founding member of the Lucasfilm Games Division. Our advisors include Dan Gillmor, Craig Newmark, Howard Rheingold and other digital media innovators from organizations like Harvard, Google, Poynter Institute, Stanford and the University of California. More than 7,000 members now participate in NewsTrust, as our initiative continues to gain momentum with concerned citizens, educators and journalists. NewsTrust is a non-profit, non-partisan project funded through grants and private donations. We have received support from the MacArthur Foundation, the Sunlight Foundation, Ayrshire, Mitch Kapor and Tides Foundations, and others, as well as private donors. Though we are nonprofit and initially funded through donations, we plan to run the venture as a sustaina
