Detroit native Erin Perry to lead Outlier Media newsroom as editor-in-chief
Perry, who has served as managing editor since 2021, succeeds Sarah Alvarez, who has served as editor-in-chief since founding Outlier in 2016.
Perry, who has served as managing editor since 2021, succeeds Sarah Alvarez, who has served as editor-in-chief since founding Outlier in 2016.
Ethar El-Katatney joins Documented as our new Editor-in-Chief. Lam Thuy Vo has also joined Documented as a contributing investigative reporter working on misinformation and the harm it creates.
Since 2005, the United States has lost nearly 2,900 newspapers and 43,000 journalists. Experts say the loss of local journalism has a profound impact on civic life and can lead to political polarisation. But a number of philanthropic efforts are trying to save struggling outlets. AJP CEO Sarabeth Berman sits down with FRANCE 24.
The LA Local News Initiative raised almost $15 million to help journalists tackle specific community-driven stories that often get overlooked.
Print journalism’s financial model has faced a body blow, a digital revolution has impacted all fields of journalism, and too many community-based news operations have withered away. But what in local journalism should hearten us? What should encourage us if we believe in informed citizens being a cornerstone of our democracy?
Mississippi Today poverty reporter Anna Wolfe has been named to the 2024 TIME100 Next list.
The National Press Club is honoring Mississippi Today — a nonprofit, non-partisan newsroom based in Jackson, Mississippi — with its highest honor for press freedom, the John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award.
Chad Lorenz, Votebeat’s editor-in-chief, is among 11 people TIME identified as Democract Defenders – those “working to boost voter participation, reverse disenfranchisement, and combat misinformation.”
Funding and creating journalism in the Bay area of California is challenging. But it’s not impossible. The nonprofit model is working and growing for Cityside, a journalism organization that began as a struggling for-profit online publication.
Wisconsin Watch has joined forces with Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service (NNS) to launch an exciting new chapter in which we work together to bring communities the news and information most important to them.