Minnesota is home to the largest Somali population in the United States. Sahan Journal was founded in 2019 founded by CEO and publisher Mukhtar Ibrahim to serves the news needs of immigrant communities and communities of color in Minneapolis and throughout the state.
ICT and IndiJ Public Media will share a reporter with Lee Enterprises at newspapers in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Rapid City, South Dakota, in a partnership designed to increase the coverage of Indigenous communities in those two regions.
Las organizaciones defensoras de la comunidad latina en Carolina del Norte registraron a miles de votantes en un esfuerzo por atraer al grupo de residentes de más rápido crecimiento del estado.
“In 2023, we will not only continue to see more local news organizations open up shop, but also the sustainability and scalability of the nonprofit model to reach more communities that remain underserved by local news.”
"If there’s any sort of potential bright spot coming out of some of the current tech platform crises, it’s that news and journalism institutions can offer a counter message and cement themselves as reliable sources of community information and connection.”
Six student fellows from historically Black colleges and universities across the country will be part of the first class of the new Open Campus HBCU Student Journalism Network.
The American Journalism Project, with support from the Google News Initiative, is launching a local news incubator. The program is intended to support entrepreneurs who want to explore launching a new nonprofit local news organization to serve their communities.
Across her many roles, McNeil Danish has been dedicated to building bridges across party, racial, and gender lines, fostering open cultures, dismantling prejudices, and empowering individuals.
In a discussion led by Marc Lacey, managing editor of The New York Times, a group of news media leaders gathered at a DealBook conference in New York. AJP grantees Sarah Alvarez of Outlier and Lauren Williams of Capital B were part of the discussion, and shared examples of how their work takes a community-driven, public service approach.
Promising initiatives are budding around the country, but we need more of them. Philanthropy-fueled initiatives like Report for America and the American Journalism Project can help rebuild newsrooms...Communities that have seen their news downsized can collaborate to establish nonprofit outlets as the Ohio Local Information Initiative has.
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