The Hechinger Institute

With the help of Corporation funding, the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media was founded in 1996 by Arthur Levine, former president of Teachers College, Columbia University and named after the late Fred M. Hechinger, a former education editor at The New York Times and former trustee of the college. The Institute aims to equip journalists with the knowledge and skills they need to produce fair, accurate and insightful reporting. More than 1,800 journalists have attended Hechinger Institute Seminars, which are held at the college and throughout the U.S. and feature top education experts, including Teachers College faculty. The Institute also produces The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit news outlet focused on producing in-depth national education journalism as well as other publications about education designed to serve as a rich, factual, and informed resource of information and data for journalists and others concerned about education reform and knowledgeable coverage of education-related issues.