Pooled Fund Grantees
| Grantee | Mission | City | State | Open Call | Website | Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska News Coalition | The Alaska News Coalition's mission is to support the continuation of local, rural, news in Alaska. | Juneau | AK | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| KCAW Raven Radio | KCAW Raven Radio provides creative community media with diverse programming and fair and accurate news to strengthen community as measured by continued audience, donor, and volunteer participation. | Sitka | AK | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| KDLL | KDLL provides enriching and trustworthy programming that supports a community of informed critical thinkers. | Kenai | AK | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| KUCB | KUCB informs, educates, entertains, and engages by providing news and arts and culture programming for Unalaska and the Aleutian Region of Alaska. | Unalaska | AK | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Sol de Medianoche News | Sol de Medianoche produces local, accurate, and meaningful bilingual Spanish and English content essential for the Latino community in Alaska. Its mission is to inform, educate, and unite the community. | Anchorage | AK | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| The Copper River Record | The Copper River Record is a weekly print newspaper and online news site that connects far-flung communities within Alaska’s rural Copper Basin. It highlights people, places, and natural phenomena that make the region unique and informs readers about local government and land management activities, delivering trusted news and community information to readers with varied cultures, beliefs, and values. | Kenny Lake | AK | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| The Nome Nugget | The Nome Nugget, Alaska’s oldest newspaper, has been in circulation since 1900. The Nome Nugget is the trusted sole newspaper with locally and regionally relevant news for more than 10,000 people living in a vast and isolated area of western rural Alaska; its mission is to seek the truth and report it. | Nome | AK | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| BirminghamWatch | BirminghamWatch serves the civic good of Birmingham and Alabama by supporting journalism that makes a positive impact and encourages citizen engagement with fair, factual, unflinching, and focused news. | Birmingham | AL | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Black Belt News Network | The Black Belt News Network believes citizens of the Black Belt––the poorest and most rural region in Alabama––deserve access to the same quality and variety of news and information as their big-city cousins. The Black Belt News Network serves Dallas, Marengo, Perry, Lowndes, and Wilcox counties with a robust digital news site and a range of social media assets, including the area’s only live newscast. | Selma | AL | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Latino News, LLC | Founded in 1996, Latino News is a free weekly newspaper that has remained one of the most effective communication bridges for the Hispanic community in Alabama. It delivers news in Spanish and educates and provides resources to the Latino community on such topics as immigration, Latin America, world news, health, sports, science and technology, entertainment, and more. | Birmingham | AL | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Fayetteville Flyer | The Fayetteville Flyer is a locally owned online source for Fayetteville-specific information on news and events. It is spirited, accurate, and fair, and provides useful information that gives value to members of its community. | Fayetteville | AR | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting | The Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting is the state’s only independent, nonpartisan and collaborative nonprofit newsroom dedicated to statewide data-driven investigative reporting. Its mission is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable by exposing injustice and systemic inequities through investigative journalism. | Phoenix | AZ | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Arizona Luminaria | Arizona Luminaria is an independent nonprofit journalism organization publishing local news in English and Spanish. It provides equitable access to local information that empowers readers in Tucson and Southern Arizona—especially Latinx, Black, Indigenous, people of color, and other historically marginalized and underrepresented people—to participate in civic life and elections. | Tucson | AZ | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Conecta Arizona | Conecta Arizona creates dialogue between Spanish-speaking communities in the border region with accurate, engaging, and accessible news from a bicultural and bilingual perspective. | Phoenix | AZ | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| LOOKOUT Publications | LOOKOUT Publications delivers fearless journalism and dynamic community events that amplify and expand LGBTQ+ representation in Arizona on every news stage, engaging, empowering, and strengthen LGBTQ+ communities and their allies by telling authentic, impactful stories that transcend stereotypes, hold power to account, and champion equality and respect for all. | Phoenix | AZ | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| The State Press at Arizona State University | The State Press is a bold, risk-taking digital student media organization at Arizona State University intent on ethically serving, provoking, and challenging a large and changing university community. | Tempe | AZ | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Tucson Sentinel | Tucson Sentinel’s independent nonprofit newsroom is an award-winning journalism pioneer that learns from and informs Southern Arizonans about the community challenges and unique culture of the Borderlands. Through watchdog reporting, local commentary, and expert analysis, the Sentinel inspires residents to be meaningfully engaged with its community, promotes transparency and understanding, seeks solutions that empower, and holds the powerful accountable. | Tucson | AZ | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| BenitoLink | BenitoLink connects San Benito County residents through trustworthy local news and information while encouraging public dialogue to foster an engaged community. It has built a trusted news site that covers government actions in the county, explores issues while educating readers, and publishes stories about everyday heroes and nonprofits that knit people together in common purpose. | Hollister | CA | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Black Voice News | Publishing in the spirit of the Black Press, the Black Voice News mantra, since its founding over 50 years ago, is “justice seeking reporting.” Its mission is to inform, engage, and empower its community with information while amplifying the voices of the Black community in Riverside and San Bernardino counties. | Riverside | CA | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Boyle Heights Beat, a part of the L.A. Local News Initiative | Boyle Heights Beat is a Spanish and English bilingual community news project produced by youth, offering noticias por y para la communidad or “news by and for the community.” The community journalism program’s mission is to empower youth voices and address relevant issues through multimedia journalism and provide a platform for young people to report on stories that matter to them while giving them a voice in shaping the narrative of their neighborhood. | Los Angeles | CA | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| California Health Report | The California Health Report is a nonprofit news organization that partners with communities across the state to share stories and offer solutions to health equity issues. It collaborates with people with disabilities, communities of color, immigrants, low-income Californians, violence survivors, rural residents, and many others to help them share ideas for making the world more equitable. | Los Angeles | CA | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| El Tecolote | El Tecolote is the voice of San Francisco’s “pueblo,” reporting news that shapes the lives of Latinx people who live or work in the city. Located in the heart of the Latino Cultural District, it documents, fosters, and amplifies the community’s vibrant role in the city’s political, art, and cultural scenes. | San Francisco | CA | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Hmong Daily News | Hmong Daily News delivers news and information to its community in Sacramento that inspires, moves, and motivates readers. | Sacramento | CA | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| India Currents Foundation | India Currents is an award-winning nonprofit, nonpartisan, ethnic media organization that serves the news and information needs of the fast-growing Indian American population in the San Francisco Bay Area. | San Jose | CA | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| L.A. TACO | The L.A. TACO empowers local journalism in Los Angeles through collaborative resource sharing, comprehensive training, and fostering open-source content production to amplify diverse voices and stories within the community. | Los Angeles | CA | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| News for Chinese | News for Chinese was founded in 2008 with the mission to provide local and hyper-local news that is vital to the daily life of San Francisco Bay Area Chinese-speaking residents and to close the information gap between Chinese and mainstream communities. It is explicitly focused on local news, produces three local print editions and provides multimedia news on multiple platforms to meet the changing news consumption needs of its audiences. | San Jose | CA | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Oakland Voices | Oakland Voices brings together journalists, community leaders, and residents to shift the dominant narrative about Oakland and its people toward a just city where everyone belongs, has a voice, and their stories and experiences are respected. | Oakland | CA | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Radio Indigena 94.1 | Radio Indigena’s mission is to unite and empower California's Indigenous migrant communities by delivering high-quality programming in Indigenous languages. Radio Indigena is committed to fostering equality, peace, democracy, and social justice while breaking down barriers of literacy and language. | Oxnard | CA | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Redwood Community Radio | Redwood Community Radio encourages a communication center of open airways (KMUD) for all voices to inform, educate, entertain, and inspire the listening community through quality programming. | Redway | CA | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Santa Cruz Local | Santa Cruz Local produces fair and accurate local journalism that holds power to account. | Santa Cruz | CA | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Shasta Scout | Shasta Scout strengthens democracy by providing access to trustworthy information in a way that deepens and empowers engagement with the news, neighbors, and people in power for readers in Shasta County, Calif. | Redding | CA | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| SJV Water | SJV Water provides independent, unbiased news about water issues in the San Joaquin Valley, including who controls the water; how it is moved, traded, and sold; and its various impacts on local communities. | Bakersfield | CA | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Talon Marks | Talon Marks is a public forum and the voice of the Cerritos College community, accurately portraying the happenings in and around the world, country, state and/or district that affect the everyday lives of its readers. | Norwalk | CA | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $50,000 |
| The Riverside Record | The Riverside Record provide its neighbors with a platform to tell their stories themselves, prioritizing context and insight over hype and sensationalism and striving to connect people through a shared love for their communities. It holds those in positions of power accountable through in-depth, hyperlocal, and easy-to-understand reporting. | Los Angeles | CA | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Voices of Monterey Bay | Voices of Monterey Bay amplifies and celebrates the diverse peoples of the Monterey Bay Crescent. By providing a forum where new ideas are debated, Voices serves as a catalyst to improve its readers’ quality of life. | Salinas | CA | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Alamosa Citizen | Alamosa Citizen is a member-supported, nonpartisan daily online newspaper that works to provide information and build civic involvement in the San Luis Valley. It reports on daily news events and happenings and develops issue-oriented enterprise journalism, community-supported daily podcasts and live-stream broadcasts, and live-event programming. | Alamosa | CO | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Asian Avenue Magazine | Asian Avenue Magazine is a monthly publication that shares the stories of Colorado’s Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (AANHPI) residents to build bridges of awareness, knowledge, and understanding between the diverse AANHPI communities and the public. | Aurora | CO | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Aurora Sentinel Community Media | Aurora Sentinel Community Media provides factual, trusted, nonpartisan news, investigations, and features about the Aurora region and its diverse community. The nonprofit corporation was created to grow a robust, thriving news organization with the capacity to cover the issues and interests of the greater community of Aurora. | Aurora | CO | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| El Comercio de Colorado | El Comercio de Colorado is a bilingual multi-media organization targeting the growing Hispanic/Latinx community in Colorado since 2006. El Comercio’s goal is to empower the Hispanic/Latinx community through information, engagement, and advocacy. | Denver | CO | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| KVNF Mountain Grown Community Radio | KVNF engages its communities by providing access to diverse music, news, and voices, envisioning listeners who are participating, inspired, active, and well-informed with a local and global perspective that emphasizes journalistic integrity. | Paonia | CO | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Ouray County Plaindealer | The Ouray County Plaindealer is the only trusted source of local news in a rural Colorado mountain community of roughly 5,000 residents. The Plaindealer’s journalists seek truth and report it, with the goal of informing the community with fact-based, nonpartisan articles. While maintaining high standards for accuracy and fairness, the Plaindealer produces quality journalism for the community, which would be a news desert without it. | Ridgway | CO | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| San Miguel Basin Forum | San Miguel Basin Forum covers all sides of issues respectfully and gives a voice to all community members in the West End of Montrose and San Miguel counties. | Nucla | CO | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Sopris Sun | Sopris Sun informs, inspires, and builds community by fostering diverse and independent journalism. | Carbondale | CO | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| World Journal | The World Journal promotes a sense of community and cooperation among the citizens of the Rocky Mountain Southwest. | Walsenburg | CO | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Easton Courier Community Journalism Project | The Easton Courier Community Journalism Project provides high-quality local news coverage that builds trust and credibility within communities through timely, accurate, and substantive coverage of local politics, education, culture, and events. It is committed to educating and training the next generation of ethical journalists. | Fairfield | CT | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| The Hartford Times | The Hartford Times provides historically underrepresented voices access to democracy while promoting community-driven narratives and multigenerational solutions. Its goal is to improve Connecticut’s access to information and connectivity to provide its communities with consistent solutions, inspiration, and purpose. | Hartford | CT | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Ethiopique | Ethiopique empowers, informs, and connects the Amharic-speaking community in the Washington, DC, metro area with trusted content, providing educational resources, insightful articles, and news that enhance lives and inform decisions. | Washington | DC | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $50,000 |
| HOY en Delaware | HOY en Delaware is a monthly publication serving the growing Hispanic population in Delaware, serving as a bridge of understanding among all inhabitants of the state. | Georgetown | DE | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Hy-Lo News | Hy-Lo News provides Black and brown millennials with hyperlocal news and information. Hy-Lo News gives a voice to millennials by creating news articles, video interviews, and panel discussions about breaking news, hot topics, and social issues of the day, presenting news in a tone that is engaging to millennials in South Florida. | Miami | FL | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| MediaLab @ FAU | MediaLab engages Florida Atlantic University’s diverse student body in developing advanced media skills as they report, document, and produce high-value content that can be republished by local media partners and a wider audience throughout the multicultural and linguistically diverse South Florida region. | Boca Raton | FL | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| The Independent Florida Alligator | The Independent Florida Alligator is a newspaper that is run by University of Florida students. The newspaper provides training and hands-on experience to students in the various aspects of journalism, publishing, advertising, and business. | Gainesville | FL | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| The Tributary | The Tributary envisions a resilient, informed, and engaged community as the cornerstone of a vibrant democracy in Northeast Florida. It strengthens the local news ecosystem by increasing the supply of quality investigative journalism in the public interest and focusing on under-covered topics that are vital to a thriving community. | Jacksonville | FL | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Watermark Publishing Group | Watermark is a multifaceted news company using opportunities and innovations to communicate and advance LGBTQ+ interests, with a corporate emphasis on professionalism while building strong relationships with its readers, customers, and community. | Orlando | FL | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| 285 South | 285 South is Atlanta’s only English-language news outlet dedicated to covering the metro region’s growing immigrant communities. Its mission is to improve the quality of life of the communities it covers by highlighting issues these communities face as well as celebrating their successes, bringing them to the attention of decision-makers and others who want to support. | Decatur | GA | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Atlanta Civic Circle | Atlanta Civic Circle informs the public on the most critical issues facing the Atlanta metro area by providing in-depth reporting and presenting possible solutions with opportunities for civic engagement online and in the community. | Atlanta | GA | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Canopy Atlanta | Canopy Atlanta is a community journalism nonprofit that chooses, reports, and shares stories with Atlantans, redefining who journalism is by and for. It tells stories that are responsive to community desires and help residents access high-quality information about the issues that matter most. | Atlanta | GA | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Grice Connect | Grice Connect delivers timely and relevant news to the residents of Statesboro/Bulloch County, Ga., fostering connection and building social capital within the community. It provides comprehensive coverage of local events, issues, and stories that matter. | Statesboro | GA | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| NotiVisión Georgia | NotiVisión Georgia informs, educates, and advocates for the Hispanic community in Georgia, providing high-quality news content and connecting viewers with local resources. Its goal is to promote social change and build bridges of understanding among communities in the state. | Warner Robins | GA | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| The Atlanta Voice | The Atlanta Voice helps shape the African American diaspora narrative by producing and distributing compelling informative and educational content across multiple platforms that focus the world’s attention on what it truly means to be Black in America. | Atlanta | GA | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| The Triton's Call | The Triton’s Call is committed to enriching the University of Guam community by providing a vibrant platform for student perspectives on current events, both on and off campus. It offers island-centered reporting that reflects the community’s unique narratives and cultures, empowering students with information and insights that are relevant, engaging, and deeply rooted in their local context. | Mangilao | GU | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $50,000 |
| Samoana Meda LLC | Sāmoana Media is a social enterprise that focuses on promoting Samoan and other Pacific Islander initiatives, particularly through education and the exploration of language, culture, history, and contemporary issues. | Honolulu | HI | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $50,000 |
| The Mānoa Mirror | The Mānoa Mirror (The Mirror) is a student-driven, community-centered online newsroom affiliated with the Journalism Program in the School of Communication and Information at University of Hawai'i at Mānoa (UH Mānoa). The Mirror reports on issues within Hawai'i, focusing on the state as the community and its residents as the primary audience. | Honolulu | HI | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $50,000 |
| Black Iowa News | Black Iowa News, an independent digital and print news platform, is dedicated to producing high-quality journalism that highlights Black perspectives, showcases the Black community, and amplifies the voices of Black Iowans. The Black-led organization launched a quarterly statewide newspaper in 2023. With a circulation of about 10,000, the mission of the state’s only Black newspaper is “prioritizing, educating, and uplifting ourselves.” | Des Moines | IA | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Burlington Beacon | Guided by the motto “Local People, Local News,” the Burlington Beacon provides the community of Burlington, Iowa, and the surrounding area with reliable and timely news that truly reflects the lives and concerns of its readers. Each story is written by a local resident who has a deep understanding of and appreciation for the community and the editorial policies are driven by this knowledge rather than by corporate interests. | Burlington | IA | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| La Prensa Iowa | La Prensa Iowa is a Spanish-language biweekly newspaper founded in 2006 in the rural community of Denison, Iowa, that is committed to providing accurate, balanced, and impactful local journalism that addresses the needs, interests, and concerns of its readers. It is offered free of charge at multiple locations throughout the state. | Denison | IA | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| BoiseDev | BoiseDev strives to be an innovative and impartial local news source focused on original and transparent reporting. The outlet seeks to give a voice to those without power. | Boise | ID | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Sandpoint Reader | The Sandpoint Reader is an alternative weekly newspaper featuring culture, arts, entertainment, news, and opinion that supports an informed community in Sandpoint and northern Idaho. | Sandpoint | ID | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Cicero Independiente | Cicero Independiente serves the diverse communities of Cicero and Berwyn with inclusive and bilingual news and storytelling opportunities that elevate local voices and foster civic engagement. It envisions a future in which every member of the community in Cicero and Berwyn is informed, engaged, and empowered to tell their own stories, shaping the narrative of their community. | Cicero | IL | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| La Raza | La Raza informs, defends, educates, enlightens, and empowers the Hispanic community in Chicago through Spanish journalism and literature, outreach activities, and business opportunities while promoting the values of democracy, freedom, justice, diversity, equality, cultural heritage, and opportunity for all. | Chicago | IL | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| South Side Weekly | South Side Weekly is a teaching paper dedicated to supporting early-career and emerging journalists from the South Side of Chicago and delivering high-quality arts, culture, and political coverage to South Side neighborhoods. | Chicago | IL | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| The Kewanee Voice | The Kewanee Voice is a nonprofit news site providing news and information to enrich the lives of the people in the Kewanee, Ill., area. It offers a voice for the people, promotes events, recognizes achievements, and presents information in a fair and accurate manner. | Kewanee | IL | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| The TRiiBE | The TRiiBE is dedicated to reshaping the narrative of Black Chicago by producing original journalism, documentaries, community perspectives, and videos that capture the multifaceted essence of the Black experience. It empowers its community by providing a platform for authentic stories, fostering truth and liberation, and giving ownership of the narrative back to the people. | Chicago | IL | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Windy City Times | Windy City Times creates content that is by, for, and about Chicago’s LGBTQ+ community. Since 1985, the free publication has ensured that the LGBTQ+ and allied communities have the information and resources they need to make informed decisions on healthcare, policy, advocacy, and more. | Chicago | IL | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Indiana Public Broadcasting News | Indiana Public Broadcasting News equips residents of Indiana with timely and relevant information and resources to help build stronger communities across the state. | Indianapolis | IN | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Michael I. Arnolt Center for Investigative Journalism at Indiana University | The Michael I. Arnolt Center for Investigative Journalism is dedicated to educating students in investigative reporting techniques and creating provocative, original journalism for the public in Indiana and beyond. As a working newsroom, it strives to protect the vulnerable, expose wrongdoing, and act as a watchdog in Indiana and nationally. | Bloomington | IN | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Our Times Newspaper | Our Times Newspaper, the legacy Black-owned newspaper in Evansville, Indiana, seeks to raise racial equity and address power structure imbalance by providing transformative civic journalism solutions to address the community’s news desert. Its mission is to provide truthful information to the public, foster civic engagement, promote accountability, and elevate the voice of the Black community. | Evansville | IN | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Iola Register | Founded in 1867, the Iola Register serves Iola, Kan., and the surrounding areas with quality news and journalistic integrity. The Iola Register is committed to serving Allen County by being independent in all things, but radical in the pursuit of freedom, justice, and equal rights. | Iola | KS | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Kansas University School of Journalism - Good Morning Indian Country | Good Morning Indian Country is a Native student-led news program produced by students from Haskell Indian Nations University and the University of Kansas. The program supports narrative sovereignty by training and equipping aspiring Native storytellers to tell their stories in their voice and by educating non-Native student journalists to tell stories accurately and authentically. It does this by providing coverage of the local Native community in Lawrence, Kansas, and at Haskell Indian Nations University. | Lawrence | KS | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| The Lawrence Times | The Lawrence Times informs and empowers members of the community of Lawrence and Douglas County, Kan., through timely news and information; breaks down barriers to knowledge and information, in part by maintaining a paywall-free website; amplifies the voices of marginalized people; highlights members of the community who do not often see themselves in local news; and helps voters make informed decisions. | Lawrence | KS | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| CivicLex | CivicLex is a nonprofit organization that is strengthening the civic health of Lexington-Fayette County, Kentucky. | Lexington | KY | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Queer Kentucky | Queer Kentucky bolsters queer health and culture through storytelling, education, and action. Its leaders and team members self-identify as queer and have lived experience of the systemic oppression experienced by the LGBTQ+ community. It uses storytelling, photography, digital art, painting, and poetry to share a rich and dynamic LGBTQ+ culture. | Covington | KY | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Lede New Orleans | Lede New Orleans is a community journalism nonprofit that equips creative professionals from underrepresented communities, ages 18-25, with the skills, tools, and resources to transform local media. The outlet meets information needs in Black, Latino, and other New Orleans communities that are underrepresented in local legacy media through media produced by young people from those same communities. | New Orleans | LA | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| The Current Media Inc. | The Current is a nonprofit news organization serving Lafayette and southern Louisiana. It connects Lafayette to stories that matter and helps readers understand how the community works—and how to make it better. The free publication reflects the community’s diversity of people and ideas, striving for accuracy, fairness, transparency, and inclusiveness. | Lafayette | LA | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| The Jena Times | The Jena Times is a weekly newspaper dedicated to the progress and growth of LaSalle Parish, La. | Jena | LA | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| The Lens | The Lens is the New Orleans area’s first nonprofit, nonpartisan public-interest newsroom dedicated to unique investigative and explanatory journalism. Its mission is to educate, engage, and empower readers with information and analysis necessary for them to advocate for a more transparent and just governance that is accountable to the public. | New Orleans | LA | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Anchor Media, LLC | Anchor Media helps residents in Hingham, Mass., stay informed through hyperlocal journalism in order to create a more aware and connected community. | Hingham | MA | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism | The Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism (BINJ) supports the development and production of independent news reporting in Massachusetts. BINJ provides organizational support to community publications, runs reporting collaborations and civic engagement initiatives, trains new and early-career journalists, and produces bold, independent journalism. | Somerville | MA | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Dorchester Reporter | The Dorchester Reporter is a family-owned and operated community news organization committed to delivering high-quality journalism to the people of Boston’s neighborhoods with a focus on traditionally underserved communities in Dorchester and Mattapan since 1983. | Boston | MA | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| El Planeta | El Planeta empowers, informs, and connects the vibrant Hispanic community of Greater Boston. As the largest Spanish-language news provider in the state, it is dedicated to delivering timely, relevant, and impactful news and information. More than just a newspaper, El Planeta is a community advocate and a cultural bridge that enriches the lives of Hispanic individuals and families throughout Massachusetts. | Boston | MA | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| The Boston Korea | The Boston Korea serves the Korean American community in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. Since its establishment in 2005, it has been a pivotal source of news and information, dedicated to addressing the needs and interests of this community. | Boston | MA | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| The Scope | The Scope is a hyperlocal digital news organization focused on telling stories of justice, hope, and resilience in Greater Boston. It is editorially independent and operated by Northeastern University’s School of Journalism and Media Innovation to serve the news needs of under-covered communities; train the next generation of journalists in covering local news; and empower community members to tell their own stories. | Boston | MA | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Baltimore Beat | Baltimore Beat is a Black-led, Black-controlled nonprofit newspaper and media outlet whose mission is to honor the tradition of the Black press and the spirit of alt-weekly journalism with reporting that focuses on community, questions power structures, and prioritizes thoughtful engagement with readers, including those with limited internet access and those from underrepresented communities. | Baltimore | MD | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Amjambo Africa | Amjambo Africa educates its readers in Maine about Africa and immigration, advocating for the well-being of all immigrants through various multimedia platforms and events and raising awareness about the scope of the conflicts in Africa and why refugees and asylum seekers have left their countries in such numbers to come to Maine. | Westbrook | ME | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Midcoast Villager (Belfast Villager) | Midcoast Villager (Belfast Villager) tells the story of Midcoast Maine, igniting conversations, sparking discovery, and bringing the community together to help make it a better place for everyone. | Camden | ME | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Midcoast Villager (Rockland Villager) | Midcoast Villager (Rockland Villager) tells the story of Midcoast Maine, igniting conversations, sparking discovery, and bringing the community together to help make it a better place for everyone. | Camden | ME | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Penobscot Bay Press | Penobscot Bay Press provides information products and services to the communities it serves with news of governmental, civic, business, and educational institutions; coverage of social doings and in-depth looks at individuals and events; notification of meetings and happenings; and opinions of staff and others on the important issues and problems facing its communities. | Stonington | ME | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Sunlight Media Collective | Sunlight Media Collective is an organization of Indigenous and non-Indigenous media makers and activists, including Wabanaki citizens, working to document and present stories affecting Wabanaki people and highlighting Wabanaki perspectives, with a particular emphasis on the intersection between environmental issues and Indigenous rights. | Lamoine | ME | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| The Maine Monitor | The Maine Monitor delivers fearless, independent, citizen-supported, nonpartisan journalism that informs Mainers about the issues impacting their state and inspires them to take action. Through investigative and in-depth stories, it engages readers to participate and connect to create a better Maine. | Augusta | ME | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| EL CENTRAL Hispanic News | EL CENTRAL Hispanic News informs multigenerational Hispanics/Latinos counter widely available mis- and disinformation by providing trusted, locally focused, and original news and feature stories and supporting the professional development of local reporters and photographers of color seeking to enter the journalism profession. | Detroit | MI | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Flint Beat | Flint Beat was launched by veteran journalist Jiquanda Johnson in 2017 to fill news gaps in an underserved community after Flint, Mich. residents said they needed more from their news coverage. | Flint | MI | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| NowKalamazoo | NowKalamazoo is a nonprofit community news service and a public resource for all who live, work, and play in Kalamazoo County, producing high-quality journalism that serves the public good and assisting citizens in accessing civic information, with a focus on communities that have been historically marginalized, harmed by the media, and/or otherwise kept from telling their own stories. | Kalamazoo | MI | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Planet Detroit | Planet Detroit produces quality climate, equity, health, and environment journalism in the public interest that centers grassroots voices, holds power accountable, spotlights solutions, and serves the community. | Detroit | MI | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| BLCK Press | BLCK Press is advancing equity through media. Its mission is to utilize the power of stories as a catalyst to shift culture, normalize inclusion, and weave equity into the fabric of society. A distinguished news and production powerhouse, it believes storytelling transcends racial and socioeconomic boundaries, captivating hearts and minds and influencing more empathetic actions. | Saint Paul | MN | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| ITASCA COMMUNITY TELEVISION (ICTV) | ICTV connects, informs, and empowers the community of Grand Rapids, Minn., through diverse media. | Grand Rapids | MN | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Pine Knot News | Pine Knot News provides verified coverage of the news, issues, sports, events, and faces of Carlton County, Minnesota, to help create an engaged and educated citizenry while also fulfilling a watchdog role for the area. | Cloquet | MN | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Project Optimist | Project Optimist engages residents of greater Minnesota to help them collaborate across common divides, tackle seemingly intractable problems, and grow more optimistic about the future of their communities, region, and world by tapping Minnesota’s creative and independent talent to produce solution-focused stories and local art to inform and inspire. | Saint Michael | MN | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| SPEAK MPLS | SPEAK MPLS is reimagining the future of media by activating community connections and creative opportunities to amplify the voices of its neighbors. | Minneapolis | MN | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Swift County Monitor-News | Swift County Monitor-News provides its community with the news citizens require for informed participation in a representative democracy. | Benson | MN | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| ThreeSixty Journalism | ThreeSixty Journalism, a program of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of St. Thomas, provides journalism and multimedia training opportunities to diverse Twin Cities youth whose communities are underrepresented, misrepresented, and absented in the information ecosystem. Grounded in the principles of journalism, committed to media literacy, and focused on contributing to accurate narratives, ThreeSixty offers technical, ethical, and entrepreneurial training for fulfilling careers in storytelling and civic leadership. | Saint Paul | MN | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| WTIP North Shore Community Radio | WTIP is a dynamic local media resource that connects, reflects, and builds community on the North Shore of Lake Superior, providing a forum for local perspectives that supports an informed public, is built on journalistic integrity, empowers storytelling, strengthens democracy, and invests in the well-being of the community. | Grand Marais | MN | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Excelsior Citizen | Excelsior Citizen connects and enriches the community of Excelsior Springs by delivering comprehensive local news, insightful community coverage, and effective civic engagement. It strives to be the leading source of local information that residents trust and rely upon. | Excelsior Springs | MO | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Houston Herald | Established in 1878, the Houston Herald is the award-winning county seat weekly newspaper serving Texas County. In 2024, the Herald was judged one of the state’s top newspapers in its class in the Missouri Better Newspaper Contest. | Houston | MO | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk | The Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk enhances the quantity, quality, and impact of journalism on agriculture, water, and related environmental issues throughout the nation’s largest watershed. The news collaborative helps to fill news deserts across the heartland by creating and distributing scientifically accurate and locally relevant stories on critical topics such as climate change, food systems, biodiversity, energy, and environmental justice. | Columbia | MO | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| St. Louis Argus | The St. Louis Argus is the oldest African American publication in Missouri and sixth oldest in the country. Its aim is to provide content that covers the culture, news, arts, business, and social justice, environmental, and political issues of its community. The Argus advocates on behalf of marginalized people and matters that may sit beyond mainstream media. | St. Louis | MO | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Te Lo Cuento News Kansas City - St Joseph | Te Lo Cuento News Kansas City-St. Joseph empowers the Spanish-speaking community in the central United States by providing high-quality, reliable news and information in Spanish that is free from sensationalism. It is dedicated to addressing the unique needs and concerns of the Hispanic community, ensuring it remains well-informed about local, national, and international events. | Saint Joseph | MO | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| The Kansas City Defender | The Kansas City Defender produces information and programs for the survival and flourishing of Black people distributed in innovative and accessible ways. | Kansas City | MO | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Jackson Advocate | Since 1938, the Jackson Advocate has steadfastly served as the voice of Black Mississippians, documenting their challenges, sacrifices, and triumphs. Its mission remains rooted in social justice advocacy, informing the community on critical local, national, and global issues. Today, it leverages digital platforms, including a website, social media, webcasts, podcasts, and investigative journalism to reach a broader and more diverse audience. | Jackson | MS | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Mineral Independent | Mineral Independent serves as the cornerstone of the communities in Sanders and Mineral counties through a steadfast commitment to community journalism and the delivery of factual information. | Plains | MT | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Border Belt Independent | Border Belt Independent digs deep into the issues, power, and people of Bladen, Columbus, Robeson, and Scotland counties. | Whiteville | NC | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Carolina Public Press | Carolina Public Press is an independent nonprofit news organization dedicated to nonpartisan, in-depth, and investigative news built on the facts and context North Carolinians need to know. Its award-winning journalism dismantles barriers and shines a light on the critical overlooked and under-reported issues facing the state’s almost 10.7 million residents. | Durham | NC | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Down in the County | Down in the County is a weekly publication that fights conspiracy theories with reliable, visual-first journalism and bridge-building by providing news literacy, training and ethical content from a diverse pool of local storytellers. | Oriental | NC | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | $100,000 | |
| Hola Carolina | Hola Carolina is an impact-driven nonprofit dedicated to exploring and amplifying the diverse voices of its community. Through impactful dialogues and empowerment, it aims to drive positive changes in policies, systems, and environments that uplift the immigrant community. | Asheville | NC | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| JMPro Community Media | JMPRO Community Media shares essential news and information, builds community connections, and celebrates local immigrant culture through a multichannel distribution strategy—including community radio, printed bulletins, and live reporting—as well as community reporter training. JMPRO Community Media bridges the digital divide, builds journalism and storytelling skills, and develops community leaders in underserved communities in Western North Carolina. | Swannanoa | NC | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| North Carolina Health News | NC Health News breaks down how health policies affect its readers. As an advocate for patients, NC Health News employs the highest ethical standards of fairness, accuracy, and extensive research, uncovering, investigating, and writing stories that no one else is reporting. | Chapel Hill | NC | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| QCity Metro | QCity Metro produces news, content, and events that are culturally, politically, and economically relevant to Black communities in Charlotte, N.C. | Charlotte | NC | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Qnotes | Qnotes serves the LGBTQ+ community in Charlotte, N.C, and throughout the Carolinas by featuring arts, entertainment, news, and views content that enlightens, informs, and engages readers about LGBTQ+ life and social justice issues. | Charlotte | NC | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Shoresides | Shoresides, a nonprofit digital news site in Wilmington, N.C., is dedicated to reporting on the intersection of racial justice, community, culture, and power in the region. Its mission is to serve as an active voice telling regional stories through journalism that reaches the BIPOC community while creating a living archive preserving the community’s collective history. | Wilmington | NC | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| High Plains Reader | The High Plains Reader is the only independent newspaper in North Dakota. Its community-focused journalism is always free and available to all, and it has been a trusted source of independent news, arts, entertainment, and cultural coverage for over 30 years. | ND | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 | |
| KZUM Community Radio | KZUM educates and builds community through broadcast media, with diverse and independent voices that enrich the perspectives of its audiences. | Lincoln | NE | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| New Hampshire Center for Public Interest Journalism, publisher of INDepthNH.org | InDepthNH.org gives a voice to marginalized people, places, and ideas, demonstrating its commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion by the stories and columns it publishes. | Barrington | NH | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| 2PuntosPlatform | 2PuntosPlatform uses journalism as a tool for social change with a focus on Latine and Caribbean communities and their migration processes. Through connections and collaborations with these communities, it strives to reduce ideological gaps between immigrants and Americans and to foster mutual respect and understanding. | Delanco | NJ | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Atlantic City Focus | Atlantic City Focus promotes civic engagement and encourages members of the African American community to share their voices. It provides news and information that readers can use to combat social ills that plague Atlantic City and other BIPOC communities, while providing an outlet to celebrate African American culture, history, and traditions. | Pleasantville | NJ | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Front Runner New Jersey.com | Front Runner New Jersey is a news and information website dedicated to covering the Black and Latino communities of South Jersey along with other communities of color, providing a voice to people who have been shut out of the mainstream media, particularly in news deserts. | Atlantic City | NJ | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Montclair Local Nonprofit News | Montclair Local Nonprofit News is an independent local news organization founded in 2017 with the mission to spark dialogue, objectively inform, and build community in Montclair through independent, in-depth, factual reporting on local issues and events such as schools, elected officials, institutions, businesses, restaurants, and culture. | Montclair | NJ | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| The Jersey Vindicator | The Jersey Vindicator tells stories no one else is telling in the state about how the powerful operate, with the aim of sparking change and solutions. In a state where democracy has eroded due to recent laws gutting campaign finance reform and public records access, it seeks to shed light on how government functions while engaging and serving residents and sharing information in new ways to reach new and younger audiences. | Princeton | NJ | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| The Trenton Journal | The Trenton Journal empowers and inspires residents living in and around Trenton, N.J., by filling in the information gaps through stories and solutions-based journalism. | Trenton | NJ | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| New Mexico In Depth Inc. | New Mexico In Depth produces investigative, data-rich stories with an eye on solutions that can be a catalyst for change. | Rio Rancho | NM | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Questa del Rio News | Questa del Rio News provides public access and representation for historically underserved communities in northern Taos County and the San Luis Valley, preserving the culture, history, traditions, and stories of its people through strong, meaningful journalism. | Questa | NM | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Sandoval Signpost | The Sandoval Signpost is the only countywide local news outlet serving the historic communities of Sandoval County, N.M. Formerly a monthly print-only paper, it now includes a weekly print issue and weekly digital e-edition with coverage of county government, the Town of Bernalillo, the community of Placitas, and expanding coverage across Sandoval County’s unique and diverse rural communities. | Albuquerque | NM | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| The Independent News | The Independent News is the only local news source serving the rural communities of the East Mountains, Edgewood, and the Estancia Valley in New Mexico. It is dedicated to preserving and protecting the local communities by providing a platform to understand the people, places, and stories that make those communities unique and providing a hub for readers to engage with local businesses and participate in local decisions that impact their lives. | Albuquerque | NM | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Sierra Nevada Ally | Sierra Nevada Ally builds healthy communities informed by facts with a focus on environmental, civics, and cultural reporting from underserved communities of the Sierra Nevada and beyond. | Carson City | NV | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| BK Reader | BK Reader is Brooklyn’s most trusted local news hub, amplifying the voices of marginalized and underserved communities and fostering respect. It empowers all residents by providing resources, tools, and information to encourage collaboration and civic participation. | Brooklyn | NY | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Epicenter-NYC | Epicenter-NYC is an emerging mission-driven and local-first multiplatform journalism organization that seeks to connect and engage New York City communities to one another through arts, culture, and civic education. | Jackson Heights | NY | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Iron String Press Inc. (Publisher of The Freeman's Journal/Hometown Oneonta/AllOtsego.com) | Iron String Press publications serve rural Otsego County, N.Y. The award-winning newspapers are locally owned and disseminate information in a thoughtful, impartial, and unbiased fashion, covering topics that impact county residents directly on a local, statewide, regional, national, and/or international level. | Cooperstown | NY | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| KHASOKHAS | Khasokhas, or “verified truth,” has been the voice of the Nepali community in New York City since 2012, breaking down language barriers and providing accessible, vital information on immigration, housing, taxes, health, and more. Its goal is to be the bridge for Nepali-speaking immigrants who struggle with English, offering resources in the Nepali language through distinctive reporting, impactful storytelling, interviews, and analysis. | Corona | NY | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Radio Catskill | WJFF Radio Catskill is an independent community voice of the Catskills and Northeast Pennsylvania, connecting listeners through locally focused and globally aware programming to inform, entertain, and inspire its communities and promote understanding among people of diverse social, cultural, economic, and political backgrounds. | Liberty | NY | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| The Bell | The Bell equips New York City students with the tools to tell impactful stories today and thrive in the media careers of tomorrow by running audio journalism internship programs for public high school students; partnering with adult journalists and newsrooms to extend the reach of its stories and provide valuable mentorship; and collaborating with partners across the city and country to advocate for equitable investment in youth journalism programs. | New York | NY | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| The Daily Catch | The Daily Catch was founded on the premise that every community deserves the benefits of incisive, accurate, and sensitive journalism. As such, the Catch is dedicated to reporting on the news, personalities, and activities of people, schools, merchants, farms, and government in and around New York’s Hudson Valley towns of Red Hook and Rhinebeck. | Red Hook | NY | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| The Haitian Times | The Haitian Times was founded in 1999 to be a leading voice in the community’s evolution and to bridge the generational and geographical gaps among Haitians. To gather and share this nuanced narrative, it actively engages with its audiences in the ongoing journey toward real solutions for Haitians’ thorniest issues. It prioritizes people and humanizes policy decisions with coverage that brings a deeper understanding of Haitian and American culture and politics. | Brooklyn | NY | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| The River Reporter | The River Reporter provides accurate and important community news and sponsors local forums and creative conversations, events, and initiatives (in collaboration with local organizations) to enhance the quality of life and increase civic engagement in the communities of the Upper Delaware River Valley | Narrowsburg | NY | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Athens County Independent | The Athens County Independent empowers community engagement through accessible public service journalism. | Athens | OH | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Richland Source | Richland Source is a nationally recognized online community news organization serving the citizens of North Central Ohio that is driven by a deeply held belief that news organizations serve their community best when they are involved in it. | Mansfield | OH | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| The Land | The Land is a local nonprofit news organization that reports on Cleveland’s neighborhoods. Through in-depth solutions journalism, it aims to foster accountability, inform the community, and inspire people to take action. | Cleveland | OH | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| The Portager | The Portager is the local news source of Portage County, Ohio. Its mission is to be a catalyst for ideas and action to help its community thrive. | Mogadore | OH | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Lorton Media Group | The Frontier produces fearless independent journalism with impact and moral force. It holds those in power accountable, gives a voice to the powerless, and tells stories that matter to Oklahomans. | Tulsa | OK | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| NonDoc Media | NonDoc’s mission is to produce and distribute quality journalism with context that enables civic involvement. | Oklahoma City | OK | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| The Black Wall Street Times | The Black Wall Street Times is the premier source for local and national news with a focus on amplifying Black voices and experiences. Located in the historic Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma, the publication stands at the intersection of journalism, advocacy, and community empowerment. | Tulsa | OK | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Tri-City Collective | Tri-City Collective builds community through creativity, educational programs, and shared history, offering creative projects/programs that serve as catalysts for community activation and an array of human experiences. | Tulsa | OK | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Eugene Weekly | Eugene Weekly exposes corporate practices and public policies that benefit the few at the expense of the many, providing a voice for the oppressed and dismissed and supporting unfettered artistic expression. It advocates for environmental sanity, government accountability, sustainable economics, social justice, cultural diversity, tolerance, and the lively free interchange of ideas and opinions. | Eugene | OR | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| The Lund Report | The Lund Report is an independent, nonpartisan news service that produces high-quality journalism about health care in Oregon and southwest Washington. Its public-service journalism promotes the awareness and understanding required for positive progress, while holding industry and government accountable, bringing to light the underlying dynamics of health care that affect patients, practitioners, and the public, spotlighting disparities and inequities in the system. | Portland | OR | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Underscore Native News | Underscore Native News produces Indigenous-centered journalism that illuminates the intersections of sovereignty and justice and portrays the rich diversity of Native communities in the Pacific Northwest. | Portland | OR | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Erie Reader | Erie Reader serves as a locally focused, independent source for arts coverage, a strong cultural compass, and a dynamic resource for news and opinion. With a dedication to long-form journalism and a commitment to provoking thoughtful discussion, the Erie Reader tells the stories of people and places making and shaping Erie, while highlighting the events and issues influencing life in northwestern Pennsylvania. | Erie | PA | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| FunTimes Magazine, LLC | FunTimes is committed to amplifying the Black diaspora community’s voices and untold stories in the Delaware Valley, as well as promoting cultural insights and experiences to ensure Black perspectives are accurately represented and celebrated. | Philadelphia | PA | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Green Philly | Green Philly is Philadelphia’s resource for a sustainable, local, and accessible lifestyle. Its mission is to connect readers with eco-solutions for a more resilient future, to make sustainability fun, and to foster a vibrant, inclusive community. | Philadelphia | PA | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| LebTown | LebTown is an independent media organization that provides timely, accurate, and comprehensive journalism intended to help people navigate their daily lives and promote the general well-being of Lebanon County, Pa. | Lebanon | PA | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| New Mainstream Press | New Mainstream Press empowers and uplifts the Asian American communities in the Greater Philadelphia area through diverse, high-quality media platforms, including print publications—Metro Chinese Weekly, Metro Viet News, and PhillyGuide—and a dynamic WeChat channel with over 50,000 subscribers. | Bala Cynwyd | PA | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| NEXTpittsburgh | NEXTpittsburgh delivers news and ideas on what matters to the people who care about Pittsburgh in the way they want it. | Pittsburgh | PA | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle | The Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle connects the Greater Pittsburgh Jewish community, serving it and strengthening it by providing compelling news, analysis, and information. | Pittsburgh | PA | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| The Allegheny Front | The Allegheny Front educates the general public to become environmentally literate and understand the issues facing their communities. It reports on local and regional news and stories that connect people to their own communities so they can become part of the civic dialogue, raising awareness about state, regional, and local environmental issues that affect the region. | Pittsburgh | PA | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| The Philadelphia Hall Monitor | The Philadelphia Hall Monitor covers news that impacts Philadelphia’s diverse neighborhood organizations and concerned citizens, focusing on how city programs impact families experiencing poverty, consumers, and those without access to traditional power structures. | Philadelphia | PA | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| 9 Millones | 9 Millones engages with the nine million Puerto Ricans around the globe by fostering critical hope through stories that emphasize progress over fear. Its aim is to create a network of community journalists across the Puerto Rican archipelago and diaspora that can contextualize the challenges their communities face and spotlight solutions. | San Juan | PR | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| ecoRI News | ecoRI News is dedicated to reporting on environmental and social justice issues in Rhode Island. Through its reporting, ecoRI creates a more informed public and provides individuals with the information they need to be better stewards of their environment. | Providence | RI | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| The Providence Eye | The Providence Eye is a nonprofit journalistic initiative devoted to informing and empowering the public about events and issues of concern to residents and visitors of Providence, R.I., and its environs. | Providence | RI | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| El Informador Newspaper | El Informador Newspaper informs, engages, and empowers the Latino community in South Carolina through journalism that is trustworthy, accurate, culturally resonant, and impactful. | Mount Pleasant | SC | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| South Dakota News Watch | South Dakota News Watch is an independent nonprofit organization reporting untold stories that help South Dakotans be informed and engaged citizens. South Dakota News Watch produces investigative and public service journalism that sheds light on the issues, concerns, and welfare of South Dakotans. | Sioux Falls | SD | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Institute for Public Service Reporting at the University of Memphis | The Institute for Public Service Reporting at the University of Memphis operates in one of the poorest cities in America, exploring and explaining critical issues affecting Greater Memphis and its many underserved communities. Its professionally staffed newsroom on the campus of the University of Memphis is also dedicated to training students who will become the next generation of journalists. | Memphis | TN | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Austin Monitor | The Austin Monitor is the only nonpartisan local daily news source that exclusively covers the important issues and key decisions at the intersection between the local government and the community. Its mission is to create shared prosperity through a more informed and engaged community. | Austin | TX | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Austin Vida | Austin Vida empowers its community by amplifying stories, events, and cultura. Latinos make up about 33% of Austin’s population; Austin Vida’s journalism centers that comunidad, which is underserved and underrepresented in U.S. media, to not only raise awareness of its diverse experiences but to also offer an accurate and holistic representation of the community. | Austin | TX | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Dallas Free Press | Dallas Free Press amplifies voices in disinvested Dallas neighborhoods and explores solutions to the city’s systemic inequities by providing fair, equitable media representation and the communication infrastructure they historically lacked, so they can access the civic information they need and pursue next steps to seeking solutions and pushing for change. | Dallas | TX | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Dallas Voice | Dallas Voice is the trusted voice of the LGBTQ+ community of North Texas, promoting, protecting, and informing the community and bringing people together to tell their stories. | Dallas | TX | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Deceleration | Deceleration is a nonprofit online journal producing original news and analysis responding to our shared ecological, political, and cultural crises. The outlet writes at the intersection of environment and justice — journalistically, academically, and creatively — with an emphasis on the the watersheds of San Antonio, South Texas, and the Gulf South. | San Antonio | TX | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Paragraph Ranch LLC / The Texas Spur | The Texas Spur (founded 1909) is the flagship weekly print and online newspaper of an award-winning regional five-newspaper group. It covers local government, education, agriculture, courts, sports, health, and lifestyle across ten contiguous rural counties of West Texas that are underserved by other media. | Spur | TX | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Shift Press | Shift Press is a media organization that provides journalism training and news that encourages Houston youth civic engagement. | Houston | TX | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| The Austin Common | The Austin Common makes the city’s democracy more inclusive, representative, and accessible for all by reporting the local news in a way that is empowering, deeply rooted in community, and created in direct service to their audience. It serves Austinites who have been left out of the local democratic system and underserved by news media, primarily young people and non-regular news readers/news avoiders. | Austin | TX | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| The Mesquite | The Mesquite is a student-run media outlet for students to report on developmental and civic issues in the economically underserved areas of San Antonio, including rural areas surrounding the start-up campus of Texas A&M University–San Antonio. Its intent is to showcase the best work of its undergraduate students and to experiment with new directions in journalism education. | San Antonio | TX | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $50,000 |
| Uvalde Leader-News | The Uvalde Leader-News is a locally owned newspaper covering Uvalde County, Tex., and it is the region's primary public information source. The Leader-News believes that freedom of the press is paramount to preserving the rights guaranteed under the First Amendment. Empowered by that freedom and its responsibility, the Leader-News pledges that its reporting will be impartial regardless of party, sect, or special interests. | Uvalde | TX | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| West Texas Tribune | The West Texas Tribune informs and engages the citizens of Abilene and surrounding communities by providing fair, factual, and reliable in-depth news stories about local government, institutions, nonprofit institutions, issues, and people. Its nonprofit journalism amplifies voices in divested neighborhoods and explores solutions for those seeking social, economic, and criminal justice and racial equity. | Abilene | TX | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $50,000 |
| Amplify Utah | Amplify Utah empowers student and emerging journalists by providing the resources, opportunities, and mentorship needed to develop their skills and make a meaningful impact. In collaboration with local media, it works to ensure that every voice is heard and valued, bridging gaps and building understanding across all communities in Utah. | Salt Lake City | UT | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Charlottesville Tomorrow | Charlottesville Tomorrow delivers in-depth reporting and analysis that improves local decision-making in central Virginia. It seeks to expand civic engagement to foster a vibrant, inclusive, and interdependent community. | Charlottesville | VA | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Henrico Citizen | Across five digital daily weekday platforms, the 23-year-old Henrico Citizen seeks to tell the story of Henrico County, Va., through fair, tenacious, thorough, and clear nonpartisan journalism that enlightens, informs, and impacts the county and its nearly 335,000 citizens. | Henrico | VA | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| The News-Gazette | The News-Gazette comprehensively provides the residents of the Rockbridge County, Va., area with local news and information in print and online, following the best practices of journalism to provide a forum to the community for the exchange of ideas and to be a force for positive change and understanding. | Lexington | VA | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| The Recorder | The Recorder is a weekly newspaper determined to help maintain an informed, active citizenry in its area of Appalachia. It provides timely, accurate information; preserves the area’s rich history; and supports and defends the hard-working, independent people who live in the Allegheny Highlands. | Monterey | VA | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Vinegar Hill Magazine | Vinegar Hill Magazine is designed to support and project a more inclusive social narrative, to promote entrepreneurship, and to be a beacon for art, culture, and politics in the Central Virginia region. | Charlottesville | VA | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Vermont Independent Media/The Commons | Vermont Independent Media is founded on the belief that independent journalism is critical for the functioning of democracy and is the lifeblood of the community. | Brattleboro | VT | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Chinese Radio Seattle | Chinese Radio Seattle’s mission is to create a bridge between Chinese Americans and the U.S. mainstream society, to raise the voice of the Chinese American community, and to serve the Chinese/Asian community in the greater Seattle area, Washington state, and across the country. | Bellevue | WA | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Future Tides | Future Tides covers how people work, play, and live on the Pacific Northwest’s waterways to help the maritime community navigate what’s next. Its vision is to be at the center of a more collaborative, sustainable, and equitable maritime community. | Seattle | WA | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| RANGE Media | RANGE is a local, independent, worker-owned newsroom serving Spokane County with an emphasis on engaging communities not adequately served, reached, or represented by traditional media. The anti-racist, equity-minded, class-focused newsroom centers the perspectives and expertise of members of marginalized communities and provides tools to engage with power and advocate for their needs. | Spokane | WA | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| The JOLT News Organization | The Journal of Olympia, Lacey & Tumwater (The JOLT) nourishes the civic lives of the residents of Thurston County, Wash., and grows community capacity by publishing accurate, relevant, and entertaining stories that help people become better informed and more involved in local issues, events, and activities. | Tumwater | WA | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| 365 Media Foundation | 365 Media Foundation provides news coverage that starts conversations, finds lasting solutions, builds community, invites action, fosters dialogue among diverse communities, and encourages emerging leaders of color. Its online and print publications, such as Madison365 and Blueprint365, tell stories from a lens of underrepresented racial and ethnic groups. | Fitchburg | WI | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Door County Knock | Door County Knock advances the truth, centers, and drives understanding of critical issues that affect Door County residents’ lives. It also holds powerful institutions accountable to the people, including by investigating betrayals of public trust and other abuses of power. | Egg Harbor | WI | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service | The Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service provides professional, evidence-based, nonpartisan reporting to its readers, primarily in Black and Latinx communities. The news service celebrates the resilience of residents by consistently spotlighting the many ordinary people who do extraordinary things; educates readers by connecting them to resources that can help uncomplicate their busy lives; and reports on issues that create much-needed dialogue while holding institutions and leaders accountable. | Milwaukee | WI | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| The Badger Project | The Badger Project is a nonpartisan journalism nonprofit that focuses on politics, campaign finance, government, and law enforcement in Wisconsin, with an emphasis on covering these things in rural areas and news deserts. | Madison | WI | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| Wausau Pilot & Review | Wausau Pilot and Review delivers in-depth reporting and analysis that improves local decision-making. It seeks to drive the public conversation, set the agenda on key issues, and empower people through insight, information, and engagement. The independent nonprofit newsroom is devoted to hard-hitting journalism that serves the people of central Wisconsin. | Wausau | WI | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |
| The Real WV | The Real WV is a nonprofit multimedia organization that reaches beyond the headlines to touch the heart of Appalachian identity. By celebrating good news and honestly facing bad news, it tells real stories about real West Virginians and the experiences that shape them. | Ronceverte | WV | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $50,000 |
| News Letter Journal | News Letter Journal covers the news, sports, and entertainment important to the people of Weston County, Wyo., and provides them with the information they need to be active and engaged citizens. | Newcastle | WY | Closing Local Coverage Gaps | View website | $100,000 |