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The Institute for Justice and Journalism (IJJ) supports high-quality reporting and commentary about social justice issues through professional fellowships and workshops, the JustNews.org Web site and Justice and Journalism Fund. The institute became an independent nonprofit organization in 2009, nine years after it was created at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication to strengthen journalism about justice and injustice.
IJJ is governed by five board members:
- Steve Montiel, the institute’s founding director and now a media relations representative for the University of California Office of the President (board president)
- Sharon Rosenhause, retired managing editor of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel (board secretary)
- Conrad Freund, chief operating officer of the LA84 Foundation, created with surplus funds from the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games (board chief financial officer/treasurer)
- John L. Dotson Jr., publisher emeritus of the Akron Beacon Journal and a director of the Washington Post Company
- Edna Negron, a Ramapo College of New Jersey journalism professor who teaches digital journalism
Senior Fellows
- Marc Cooper, director, Annenberg Digital News, USC Annenberg School of Journalism (Digital Media, Immigration)
- Joe Domanick, author, independent journalist (Criminal Justice)
- Celeste Fremon, creator of WitnessLA.com (Social Justice, Digital Media)
- Daniel Kowalski, editor, Bender's Immigration Bulletin (Immigration)
- Sally Lehrman, Knight Ridder–San Jose Mercury News Endowed Chair in Journalism and the Public Interest at Santa Clara University (Racial Justice)
- Martha Mendoza, national writer, The Associated Press (Digital Media Research, Racial Justice)
- Victor Merina, independent journalist (Racial Justice)
- Julio César Ortiz, reporter for KMEX-TV Univision 34 in Los Angeles (Immigration)
- Phillip Rodriguez, film producer (Documentary Filmmaking)
- Erna Smith, visiting professor, USC Annenberg School of Journalism (Journalism Education)
- Dianne Solís, senior writer, Dallas Morning News (Immigration)
- Frank O. Sotomayor, visiting lecturer, USC Annenberg School of Journalism (Racial Justice, Immigration, Just.News.org editor)
- Warren Vieth, visiting professor, Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication (Immigration)
- Janet Wilson, independent journalist (Environmental Justice)
Expert Fellows, Racial Justice
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