For over 20 years, the California Health Care Foundation (CHCF) has funded nonprofit journalism to help strengthen the media’s capacity to cover health policy in California. The goal of this investment: to ensure that CHCF’s audiences have access to timely, relevant information about the most pressing issues related to the health care and policy landscape.
Health Journalism Grantees Included in This Assessment
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In 2019, the foundation engaged the Aspen Planning and Evaluation Program (APEP) at the Aspen Institute to assess its health journalism grantmaking. The assessment aims to help CHCF more clearly articulate the strategic framework and criteria for its journalism body of work; assess the effectiveness of these grants; and inform CHCF’s internal discussions about potential refinements to its journalism grantmaking strategy. The findings and recommendations summarized below draw on 81 interviews with journalists, editors, newsroom leadership, and members of grantees’ target audiences; data on digital and broadcast audiences; and surveys and other documents provided by grantees and CHCF. These findings and recommendations, drawn from the internal report that Aspen prepared for CHCF, are intended to contribute to knowledge sharing and field building among a broader audience of stakeholders in journalism grantmaking.