The American Journalism Project is a new venture philanthropy organization dedicated to local news.
Our work is grounded in an understanding of the severity, urgency and scope of the crisis as communities across the U.S. lose their newspapers and call for a new approach to local news.
By providing transformative investments and close support to nonprofit, nonpartisan news organizations, we are building a new public service media that is governed by, sustained by and looks like the public it serves.
2,100
communities in the U.S. have lost their newspaper since 2004
Source: The Expanding News Desert