Our Mission
The Institute for Storycraft and Information Gathering (ISIG) helps people improve their ability to evaluate and share information, and to tell credible, compelling non-fiction stories through programs that support news literacy, storycraft, and information evaluation.
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These skills are essential to ensuring a vibrant, enduring civil society.
ISIG Awarded Cummings Grant
We're honored to be among 150 Massachusetts nonprofits awarded a Cummings Grant from the Cummings Foundation's $30 Million Grant Program. This funding — $75,000 over the next three years — will support our work teaching people essential information literacy and nonfiction storytelling skills, including a news literacy program for public school students in the Boston area!
Upcoming Events
2025 Annual Forum
Fall 2025
Tufts University, Medford, MA
Coming soon:
Watch for our call for forum speakers/session topics and updated calendar of fireside chats.
ISIG is pursuing our goals through supplementary educational programs at the university and K-12 levels, based on expertise from accomplished professionals in various fields.
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Our projects include university forums, where students and community members learn from professionals in media, communications, education, and related fields.
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We’re also creating mentoring services for campus journalists and other students who need help with writing, photography, and video.
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And we’re launching after-school enrichment programs that teach news literacy and journalism skills to grade school students.
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What You Should Know: FAST FACTS
38.2 %
News consumers in the United States who had ever unknowingly shared fake news or information on social media.
Number of Americans living in areas that have no local news source.
Source: The Week
70 Million
1 in 3
Number of college students who say they are “regular users” of generative AI writing tools at school.
