Mission Local has officially expanded its coverage beyond the Mission District, launching dedicated landing pages and appointing beat reporters for the Tenderloin, Bayview, the Sunset and the Richmond neighborhoods.
Mission Local has promoted Joe Rivano Barros to the position of executive editor, marking a new leadership chapter for the San Francisco-based newsroom as it continues to expand its investigative reporting and neighborhood coverage.
Sahan Journal, a nonprofit newsroom dedicated to Minnesota’s immigrant and BIPOC communities, has been named the recipient of the 2026 Columbia Journalism Award for its exceptional commitment to public interest reporting.
The Nashville Banner has appointed Esther Bailey-Bass as its first community engagement manager, a role designed to foster deep connections between the nonprofit newsroom and the diverse neighborhoods of Nashville.
The Salt Lake Tribune has announced that it will officially remove its digital paywall in May 2026, transitioning to a donor-supported membership model to ensure its local journalism remains a free public resource for all Utahns.
Deep South Today co-founder Andy Lack is expanding his nonprofit news model across the South to address the decline of local journalism and provide communities with essential, high-impact investigative reporting.
New York Focus has filed a lawsuit against the state’s prison agency to compel the release of records detailing how officials handle systemic sexual abuse allegations within New York prisons.
Free Press Indiana has appointed veteran journalist Lindsey Erdody, formerly of Axios Local, WFYI, and the Indianapolis Business Journal, as the editor-in-chief of its statewide newsroom effective March 2.
We are proud to announce that Anna Wolfe, an editor and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter from Mississippi Today, will join the staff of the newly formed Deep South Today Investigative Reporting Center, created in collaboration with The New York Times and Big Local News.
Through a series of case studies on local newsrooms, the George W. Bush Institute examines how the Fort Worth Report’s persistent coverage of education and student outcomes is rebuilding civic trust and strengthening democratic engagement.
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