Citing the strong quality and high quantity of proposals, Press Forward doubled the number of recipients and funding for local news organizations in its first Open Call for proposals
Oct. 16, 2024 – Two hundred and five small local news outlets – including one in every U.S. state – will receive a share of $20 million to close persistent coverage gaps in their communities, thanks to funding from Press Forward, the nationwide movement to strengthen communities by reinvigorating local news.
Motivated by the extraordinary quality and number of proposals, Press Forward is funding twice as many news organizations as it anticipated initially through its first open call. The recipients, the majority receiving $100,000 in general operating support, were selected from a total of 931 proposals from newsrooms with annual budgets of less than $1 million.
The grant recipients are a bright mosaic of independent, non-partisan sources reimagining what local news looks like across America.
“These newsrooms are proof that we are seeing a moment of transformation, where new and longstanding are stepping up to create a new story for local news,” said Dale R. Anglin, Director, Press Forward. “Each newsroom plays a vital public service role in its community – providing trustworthy local news and information in places where no other sources may exist. Independent newsrooms need community support to survive. We hope that more people will subscribe and donate to them.”
The public can join in supporting local newsrooms across the country by donating to the Press Forward Pooled Fund. Every dollar, up to $5 million, will be matched to support local newsrooms across the U.S. Learn more at pressforward.news/grantees or through the list below.
About the 205 recipients
The current recipients include newer nonprofits – some launched as information needs became evident during the pandemic – and enduring for-profit outlets continuing to innovate after a century in business. Some newsrooms are reporting on the vast American countryside, where they are the only news source for hundreds of miles, while others cover people of color and linguistically diverse communities that traditional news sources have overlooked.
Collectively, they are reporting and producing the original, locally based stories people need to be involved in their cities and make decisions about their daily lives – from how their tax money is being spent, to crime and climate trends in their communities and ways to get help paying utility bills.
In addition:
40% of grantees are headed by Black, Indigenous and other leaders of color, including:
- Hola Carolina, which has provided critical news and information to Spanish speakers in Western North Carolina since Hurricane Helene struck, and Black Iowa News, which launched during COVID to help Black Iowans survive a virus that disproportionately harmed them and recently published its voter guide for the 2024 election..
25% of recipients are serving rural communities, including:
- The Ouray County Plaindealer in Colorado, where a husband-and-wife team covers an area of 5,000 people. Their reporting on the local sheriff’s office led to 93% of voters recalling him from office.
And eight are college newsrooms, including:
- The Independent Florida Alligator, one of the country’s largest student newsrooms and known for its impactful coverage, including recent, notable reporting on the university president. The outlet is working to strengthen its revenue and fundraising.
A searchable database listing all recipients is on Press Forward’s website.
Press Forward is a growing coalition of donors committed to reimagining local news. The funding for this open call comes from donors who contributed to Press Forward’s Pooled Fund, housed at The Miami Foundation. In addition to raising money and awareness for local news, Press Forward has launched 31 local chapters around the country over the past year, where local leaders are raising funds and gathering support to strengthen their community through local news.
Press Forward’s coalition members are committed to the initiative’s four funding priorities: strengthening local newsrooms, advancing public policy that expands access to local news, scaling the infrastructure the sector needs to thrive, and the subject of this open call, closing local coverage gaps, so that all communities are part of the conversations about the issues that most affect their lives.
Press Forward engaged 113 advisors from a range of backgrounds in the application reviewer process. Each application was scored and evaluated using a rubric that favored newsrooms filling news gaps with strong, community-based leadership, a plan for sustainability and a track record of community listening and collaboration. The Press Forward staff, including veterans in philanthropy and journalism, narrowed the list further and, with input from the Management Committee, made the final decisions to ensure a balanced list for maximum impact across the country. You can learn more about our selection process on the Press Forward blog.
About Press Forward
Press Forward is a nationwide movement to strengthen our democracy by revitalizing local news and information. Press Forward’s growing coalition of 60+ funders has committed to invest more than $500 million to strengthen local newsrooms, close longstanding gaps in journalism coverage, advance public policy that expands access to local news and scale infrastructure the sector needs to thrive. Press Forward is housed at The Miami Foundation. For more, visit pressforward.news.
For press inquiries, please contact Marika Lynch, communications@pressforward.news.
Grantees: Open Call on Closing Local Coverage Gaps
Alabama
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.
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.
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.
Alaska
Alaska News Coalition
The Alaska News Coalition’s mission is to support the continuation of local, rural news in Alaska.
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.
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.
KDLL
KDLL provides enriching and trustworthy programming that supports a community of informed critical thinkers.
KUCB
KUCB informs, educates, entertains, and engages by providing news and arts and culture programming for Unalaska and the Aleutian Region of Alaska.
The Nome Nugget
The Nome Nugget, Alaska’s oldest newspaper, has been in circulation since 1900. The Nome Nugget is the trusted sole source of 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.
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.
Arizona
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.
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.
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.
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 strengthening LGBTQ+ communities and their allies by telling authentic, impactful stories that transcend stereotypes, hold power to account, and champion equality and respect for all.
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.
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 their community, promotes transparency and understanding, seeks solutions that empower, and holds the powerful accountable.
Arkansas
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.
California
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.
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.
Boyle Heights Beat, 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.
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.
Hmong Daily News
Hmong Daily News delivers news and information to its community in Sacramento that inspires, moves, and motivates readers.
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.
L.A. TACO
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Santa Cruz Local
Santa Cruz Local produces fair and accurate local journalism that holds power to account.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Colorado
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.
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 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.
El Comercio de Colorado
El Comercio de Colorado is a bilingual multimedia 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.
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.
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.
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.
Sopris Sun
Sopris Sun informs, inspires, and builds community by fostering diverse and independent journalism.
World Journal
World Journal promotes a sense of community and cooperation among the citizens of the Rocky Mountain Southwest.
Connecticut
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.
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.
Delaware
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.
Florida
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.
The Independent Florida Alligator
The Independent Florida Alligator is a newspaper 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.
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 to a wider audience throughout the multicultural and linguistically diverse South Florida region.
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.
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.
Georgia
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Guam
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.
Hawaii
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.
Samoana Media 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.
Iowa
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.”
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.
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.
Idaho
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.
Sandpoint Reader
Sandpoint Reader is an alternative weekly newspaper featuring culture, arts, entertainment, news, and opinion that supports an informed community in Sandpoint and northern Idaho.
Illinois
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 health care, policy, advocacy, and more.
Indiana
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.
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.
Our Times Newspaper
Our Times Newspaper, the legacy Black-owned newspaper in Evansville, Ind., 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.
Kansas
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.
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, Kan., and at Haskell Indian Nations University.
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.
Kentucky
CivicLex
CivicLex is a nonprofit organization that is strengthening the civic health of Lexington-Fayette County, Ky.
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.
Louisiana
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.
The Jena Times
The Jena Times is a weekly newspaper dedicated to the progress and growth of LaSalle Parish, La.
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.
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.
Massachusetts
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.
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.
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.
Dorchester Reporter
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.
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.
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.
Maryland
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.
Maine
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.
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.
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.
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.
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; notifications of meetings and happenings; and opinions of staff and others on the important issues and problems facing its communities.
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.
Michigan
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.
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.
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.
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.
Minnesota
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.
ITASCA COMMUNITY TELEVISION (ICTV)
ICTV connects, informs, and empowers the community of Grand Rapids, Minn., through diverse media.
Pine Knot News
Pine Knot News provides verified coverage of the news, issues, sports, events, and faces of Carlton County, Minn., to help create an engaged and educated citizenry while also fulfilling a watchdog role for the area.
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.
SPEAK MPLS
SPEAK MPLS is reimagining the future of media by activating community connections and creative opportunities to amplify the voices of its neighbors.
Swift County Monitor-News
Swift County Monitor-News provides its community with the news citizens require for informed participation in a representative democracy.
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.
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.
Missouri
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.
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.
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.
Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk
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.
St. Louis Argus
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.
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.
Mississippi
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.
Montana
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.
North Carolina
Border Belt Independent
Border Belt Independent digs deep into the issues, power, and people of Bladen, Columbus, Robeson, and Scotland counties.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
QCity Metro
QCity Metro produces news, content, and events that are culturally, politically, and economically relevant to Black communities in Charlotte, N.C.
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.
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.
North Dakota
High Plains Reader
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.
Nebraska
KZUM Community Radio
KZUM educates and builds community through broadcast media, with diverse and independent voices that enrich the perspectives of its audiences.
New Hampshire
New Hampshire Center for Public Interest Journalism
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.
New Jersey
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.
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.
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.
The Jersey Vindicator
The Jersey Vindicator tells stories no one else is telling in New Jersey 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.
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.
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.
New Mexico
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 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.
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.
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.
Sandoval Signpost
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.
Nevada
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.
New York
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ohio
Athens County Independent
Athens County Independent empowers community engagement through accessible public service journalism.
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.
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.
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.
Oklahoma
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, Okla., the publication stands at the intersection of journalism, advocacy, and community empowerment.
Lorton Media Group/The Frontier
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.
Nondoc Media
NonDoc’s mission is to produce and distribute quality journalism with context that enables civic involvement.
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.
Oregon
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.
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.
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.
Pennsylvania
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
NEXTpittsburgh
NEXTpittsburgh delivers news and ideas on what matters to the people who care about Pittsburgh in the way they want it.
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.
Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle
Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle connects the Greater Pittsburgh Jewish community, serving it and strengthening it by providing compelling news, analysis, and information.
Puerto Rico
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.
Rhode Island
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.
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.
South Carolina
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.
South Dakota
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.
Tennessee
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.
Texas
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 Monitor
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 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.
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 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.
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 watersheds of San Antonio, South Texas, and the Gulf South.
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.
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.
Shift Press
Shift Press is a media organization that provides journalism training and news that encourages Houston youth civic engagement.
Uvalde Leader-News
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.
West Texas Tribune
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.
Utah
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.
Virginia
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Vermont
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.
Washington
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.
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.
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.
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.
Washington, DC
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.
Wisconsin
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.
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.
Door County Knock
Door County Knock advances the truth and 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.
The 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.
Wausau Pilot & Review
Wausau Pilot & 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.
West Virginia
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.
Wyoming
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.