Salt Institute for Documentary Studies

[2] Criminal co-creator Phoebe Judge, novelist Diane Cook, and radio and podcast producer Tina Antolini all attended Salt.

[4] Students studied photojournalism and nonfiction writing, and their work was presented in its eponymous magazine, Salt.

As a result, Salt had to keep costs lower than competing accredited schools and had to dedicate time to fundraising for scholarships and aid it could provide students.

[6] Salt became an accredited institution for the first time as a result of the merger, and now offers federal student aid.

Since 2016, it has been housed at the Maine College of Art campus in the historic Porteous, Mitchell and Braun Company Building in downtown Portland.