MGP2006 alum Fabrice Florin's Newstrust lands $450K multi-year MacArthur grant

NewsTrust.net, the social news network which help consumers find and rate quality journalism, reports it received a $450,000 multi-year grant to expand its non-profit operation. Fabrice Florin (MGP2006 / JTM2007) has been working with a skeleton crew on NewsTrust for more than three years from Mill Valley, Calif., keeping it alive mostly with his own money and time after some initial seed money from the founders of MoveOn.org, and from the Ayrshire Foundation, the Mitch Kapor Foundation, the Sunlight Foundation, the Tides Foundation and private donors including Craig Newmark.

To read NewsTrust's news release, go to: URL: http://www.newstrust.net/about/news/press_release_1128.htm Contact: Fabrice Florin - NewsTrust.net - 415-388-6688