COVID-19 Information Hub
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Bay City News created a COVID-19 Information Hub at LocalNewsMatters.org to provide accurate, up-to-date information and help Bay Area residents navigate the pandemic.
Mission Metrics
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The Oaklandside was founded on a commitment to listening. This is how we’re living up to that promise.
MISSING THEM
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MISSING THEM is a collaborative journalism and community project to identify every New Yorker who died due to COVID-19 and write a story about them. The goal: to bring equity and inclusion in memorials.
News414
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News414 is a resident-centered project that uses text messages, social media and events to engage underserved audiences. We plug information and accountability gaps in highly segregated Milwaukee.
Amplifying Community Voices in Local Media
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We find, support and amplify Utah’s diverse voices through journalistic storytelling. We do this in deep partnership with young journalists, local media, nonprofits and the communities they serve.
Granite State News Collaborative
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We have created an infrastructure and communication system that allows more than 20 media, educational and community organizations to share and co-produce news for a statewide audiences.
New Jersey Sustainability Reporting Project
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The New Jersey Sustainability Reporting project is a statewide news collaborative spearheaded by CivicStory. It generates local news stories about sustainability issues and actions required to resolve the climate crisis. Through 6-month fellowships, early to mid-career journalists report for diverse New Jersey newsrooms and help citizens shift from day-to-day thinking to longer-term consideration of the needs, health, and wellbeing of future generations.
Sahan Journal
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Sahan Journal, an independent, nonprofit news site in partnership with MPR News, serves the immigrant and refugee populations of Minnesota with professional journalism centered on immigrant lives, voices, and experiences. It has been publishing essential pandemic coverage in Hmong, Somali, and Spanish, in order to be accessible to the three largest immigrant groups in the state.
Local Boost
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The Voice of San Diego “Local Boost” initiative spurs the local economy and helps to ensure the sustainability of our nonprofit newsroom. The program leverages philanthropy to incentivize sponsorship and marketing packages for local small businesses and nonprofits, diversifying our revenue sources and demonstrating our values and commitment to our local community.
Block Club Chicago’s Free West Side Resource Fair
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Block Club Chicago hosted a free resource fair on the West Side, bringing together 21 community organizations to offer free food, toiletries and health screenings to residents. Our neighborhood reporter was also on hand to take story tips and meet people.
The TIF Illumination Project
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Tax Increment Financing districts (TIFs) divert billions of public property tax dollars from local units of government across the USA annually. This is a secretive and corrupt process that sends public dollars to private developers with virtually no grassroots input or evaluation. This is a national story with unlimited local news hooks. It is part of a larger conversation on local economic development, economic and racial justice, government accountability and crass corruption (or, as we say, in Chicago, “pay to play” politics), and it offers rich opportunities for civic engagement, journalism and and volunteer-driven research.
Community Conversation Series
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We gathered a diverse group of West Virginians to discuss their information needs, how the community can be involved in the growth of our startup newsroom and what gaps exist in the media ecosystem that Mountain State Spotlight can fill. We held two conversations through Zoom with 21 participants from all over the state with different political leanings and different life experiences so that we can build a newsroom to serve all West Virginians.
Bloomfield Information Project’s news harvests
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The news harvest is a technology-assisted workflow we’ve developed to produce a daily local newsletter in communities that are media deserts. It allows people to launch useful multi-lingual news products that uplift existing community production and begin the restoration of those ecosystems.
Enlace Latino NC Podcast
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Podcasts covering Coronavirus in Spanish – one for North Carolina’s undocumented immigrant community and another for its farmworkers.
The Local
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The Local is a daily dose of hometown news for Portland, Oregon. New episodes are released every weekday morning; each installment features a rundown of the day’s top stories, a featured story segment and an interview with someone from the community — a local politician, creative, thinker, journalist or leader.
Student Voices
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Student Voices elevated the voices of young people at a critical moment in America, as we grapple with racism and the devastating effects of the coronavirus on education. Chalkbeat, whose mission is focused on educational equity, told student stories in creative ways and convened virtual gatherings to uplift their insights so people in power can make more informed decisions.
Emergency News Team
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Fearing an information gap in North Carolina’s underserved communities facing an unprecedented pandemic, Carolina Public Press (CPP) launched the Emergency News Team (ENT) immediately after COVID-19 struck the state. The initiative was a collaborative, multifaceted, multilingual program to help all North Carolinians — especially underserved rural residents — access reliable and timely COVID-19 news and information.
Your Voice – Your Vote
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First BenitoLink went to school on democratic engagement. Then BenitoLink went to work.
Collaborative journalism: addressing anti-Black racism in a Latinx community devastated by COVID-19
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As our community grapples with the systemic inequalities that have made Cicero a hotspot for COVID-19, the events of June 1 exposed how we can be both victims and perpetrators of racial violence. For this project, Cicero Independiente, a bilingual newsroom, partnered with Cicero residents to document the life-changing events of June 1.
Matter News
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Matter is a local news nonprofit with a digital, community-informed model that inspires civic engagement by investigating the most pressing issues in central Ohio. Rather than scratching the surface of many issues, Matter contextualizes the news for its donors and audience by diving deep into specific topics of local importance for extended periods of time, filling gaps in coverage with explainers, animations, podcasts, mini documentaries and interactive maps.