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Asian Avenue Magazine
Aurora, COAsian Avenue Magazine is a monthly publication that shares the stories of Colorado’s Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander (AANHPI) residents to build bridges of awareness, knowledge, and understanding between the diverse AANHPI communities and the public.
The Allegheny Front
Pittsburgh, PAThe Allegheny Front educates the general public to become environmentally literate and understand the issues facing their communities. It reports on local and regional news and stories that connect people to their own communities so they can become part of the civic dialogue, raising awareness about state, regional, and local environmental issues that affect the region.
Our Times Newspaper
Evansville, INOur Times Newspaper, the legacy Black-owned newspaper in Evansville, Indiana, seeks to raise racial equity and address power structure imbalance by providing transformative civic journalism solutions to address the community’s news desert. Its mission is to provide truthful information to the public, foster civic engagement, promote accountability, and elevate the voice of the Black community.
BirminghamWatch
Birmingham, ALBirminghamWatch serves the civic good of Birmingham and Alabama by supporting journalism that makes a positive impact and encourages citizen engagement with fair, factual, unflinching, and focused news.
Te Lo Cuento News Kansas City - St Joseph
Saint Joseph, MOTe Lo Cuento News Kansas City-St. Joseph empowers the Spanish-speaking community in the central United States by providing high-quality, reliable news and information in Spanish that is free from sensationalism. It is dedicated to addressing the unique needs and concerns of the Hispanic community, ensuring it remains well-informed about local, national, and international events.
The Badger Project
Madison, WIThe Badger Project is a nonpartisan journalism nonprofit that focuses on politics, campaign finance, government, and law enforcement in Wisconsin, with an emphasis on covering these things in rural areas and news deserts.
Easton Courier Community Journalism Project
Fairfield, CTThe Easton Courier Community Journalism Project provides high-quality local news coverage that builds trust and credibility within communities through timely, accurate, and substantive coverage of local politics, education, culture, and events. It is committed to educating and training the next generation of ethical journalists.
Radio Catskill
Liberty, NYWJFF Radio Catskill is an independent community voice of the Catskills and Northeast Pennsylvania, connecting listeners through locally focused and globally aware programming to inform, entertain, and inspire its communities and promote understanding among people of diverse social, cultural, economic, and political backgrounds.
JMPro Community Media
Swannanoa, NCJMPRO Community Media shares essential news and information, builds community connections, and celebrates local immigrant culture through a multichannel distribution strategy—including community radio, printed bulletins, and live reporting—as well as community reporter training. JMPRO Community Media bridges the digital divide, builds journalism and storytelling skills, and develops community leaders in underserved communities in Western North Carolina.
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Latino News, LLC
Birmingham, ALFounded in 1996, Latino News is a free weekly newspaper that has remained one of the most effective communication bridges for the Hispanic community in Alabama. It delivers news in Spanish and educates and provides resources to the Latino community on such topics as immigration, Latin America, world news, health, sports, science and technology, entertainment, and more.
Shift Press
Houston, TXShift Press is a media organization that provides journalism training and news that encourages Houston youth civic engagement.
World Journal
Walsenburg, COThe World Journal promotes a sense of community and cooperation among the citizens of the Rocky Mountain Southwest.
KUCB
Unalaska, AKKUCB informs, educates, entertains, and engages by providing news and arts and culture programming for Unalaska and the Aleutian Region of Alaska.
Fayetteville Flyer
Fayetteville, ARThe Fayetteville Flyer is a locally owned online source for Fayetteville-specific information on news and events. It is spirited, accurate, and fair, and provides useful information that gives value to members of its community.
Hola Carolina
Asheville, NCHola Carolina is an impact-driven nonprofit dedicated to exploring and amplifying the diverse voices of its community. Through impactful dialogues and empowerment, it aims to drive positive changes in policies, systems, and environments that uplift the immigrant community.
Midcoast Villager (Belfast Villager)
Camden, MEMidcoast Villager (Belfast Villager) tells the story of Midcoast Maine, igniting conversations, sparking discovery, and bringing the community together to help make it a better place for everyone.
Austin Vida
Austin, TXAustin Vida empowers its community by amplifying stories, events, and cultura. Latinos make up about 33% of Austin’s population; Austin Vida’s journalism centers that comunidad, which is underserved and underrepresented in U.S. media, to not only raise awareness of its diverse experiences but to also offer an accurate and holistic representation of the community.
Green Philly
Philadelphia, PAGreen Philly is Philadelphia’s resource for a sustainable, local, and accessible lifestyle. Its mission is to connect readers with eco-solutions for a more resilient future, to make sustainability fun, and to foster a vibrant, inclusive community.
Good Morning Indian Country is a Native student-led news program produced by students from Haskell Indian Nations University and the University of Kansas. The program supports narrative sovereignty by training and equipping aspiring Native storytellers to tell their stories in their voice and by educating non-Native student journalists to tell stories accurately and authentically. It does this by providing coverage of the local Native community in Lawrence, Kansas, and at Haskell Indian Nations University.
KCAW Raven Radio
Sitka, AKKCAW Raven Radio provides creative community media with diverse programming and fair and accurate news to strengthen community as measured by continued audience, donor, and volunteer participation.
Austin Monitor
Austin, TXThe Austin Monitor is the only nonpartisan local daily news source that exclusively covers the important issues and key decisions at the intersection between the local government and the community. Its mission is to create shared prosperity through a more informed and engaged community.
9 Millones
San Juan, PR9 Millones engages with the nine million Puerto Ricans around the globe by fostering critical hope through stories that emphasize progress over fear. Its aim is to create a network of community journalists across the Puerto Rican archipelago and diaspora that can contextualize the challenges their communities face and spotlight solutions.
The Land
Cleveland, OHThe Land is a local nonprofit news organization that reports on Cleveland’s neighborhoods. Through in-depth solutions journalism, it aims to foster accountability, inform the community, and inspire people to take action.
Sandpoint Reader
Sandpoint, IDThe Sandpoint Reader is an alternative weekly newspaper featuring culture, arts, entertainment, news, and opinion that supports an informed community in Sandpoint and northern Idaho.
Eugene Weekly
Eugene, OREugene Weekly exposes corporate practices and public policies that benefit the few at the expense of the many, providing a voice for the oppressed and dismissed and supporting unfettered artistic expression. It advocates for environmental sanity, government accountability, sustainable economics, social justice, cultural diversity, tolerance, and the lively free interchange of ideas and opinions.
EL CENTRAL Hispanic News
Detroit, MIEL CENTRAL Hispanic News informs multigenerational Hispanics/Latinos counter widely available mis- and disinformation by providing trusted, locally focused, and original news and feature stories and supporting the professional development of local reporters and photographers of color seeking to enter the journalism profession.
The Institute for Public Service Reporting at the University of Memphis operates in one of the poorest cities in America, exploring and explaining critical issues affecting Greater Memphis and its many underserved communities. Its professionally staffed newsroom on the campus of the University of Memphis is also dedicated to training students who will become the next generation of journalists.
L.A. TACO
Los Angeles, CAThe L.A. TACO empowers local journalism in Los Angeles through collaborative resource sharing, comprehensive training, and fostering open-source content production to amplify diverse voices and stories within the community.
Qnotes
Charlotte, NCQnotes serves the LGBTQ+ community in Charlotte, N.C, and throughout the Carolinas by featuring arts, entertainment, news, and views content that enlightens, informs, and engages readers about LGBTQ+ life and social justice issues.
The Independent News
Albuquerque, NMThe Independent News is the only local news source serving the rural communities of the East Mountains, Edgewood, and the Estancia Valley in New Mexico. It is dedicated to preserving and protecting the local communities by providing a platform to understand the people, places, and stories that make those communities unique and providing a hub for readers to engage with local businesses and participate in local decisions that impact their lives.
The Independent Florida Alligator
Gainesville, FLThe Independent Florida Alligator is a newspaper that is run by University of Florida students. The newspaper provides training and hands-on experience to students in the various aspects of journalism, publishing, advertising, and business.
Front Runner New Jersey.com
Atlantic City, NJFront Runner New Jersey is a news and information website dedicated to covering the Black and Latino communities of South Jersey along with other communities of color, providing a voice to people who have been shut out of the mainstream media, particularly in news deserts.
10X Your Vote
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Amjambo Africa
Westbrook, MEAmjambo Africa educates its readers in Maine about Africa and immigration, advocating for the well-being of all immigrants through various multimedia platforms and events and raising awareness about the scope of the conflicts in Africa and why refugees and asylum seekers have left their countries in such numbers to come to Maine.
Reach
Queens, NYThe grassroots organizing app that lets you meet people where they are.
The JOLT News Organization
Tumwater, WAThe Journal of Olympia, Lacey & Tumwater (The JOLT) nourishes the civic lives of the residents of Thurston County, Wash., and grows community capacity by publishing accurate, relevant, and entertaining stories that help people become better informed and more involved in local issues, events, and activities.
Redwood Community Radio
Redway, CARedwood Community Radio encourages a communication center of open airways (KMUD) for all voices to inform, educate, entertain, and inspire the listening community through quality programming.
Santa Cruz Local
Santa Cruz, CASanta Cruz Local produces fair and accurate local journalism that holds power to account.
North Carolina Health News
Chapel Hill, NCNC Health News breaks down how health policies affect its readers. As an advocate for patients, NC Health News employs the highest ethical standards of fairness, accuracy, and extensive research, uncovering, investigating, and writing stories that no one else is reporting.
News for Chinese
San Jose, CANews for Chinese was founded in 2008 with the mission to provide local and hyper-local news that is vital to the daily life of San Francisco Bay Area Chinese-speaking residents and to close the information gap between Chinese and mainstream communities. It is explicitly focused on local news, produces three local print editions and provides multimedia news on multiple platforms to meet the changing news consumption needs of its audiences.
Flint Beat
Flint, MIFlint Beat was launched by veteran journalist Jiquanda Johnson in 2017 to fill news gaps in an underserved community after Flint, Mich. residents said they needed more from their news coverage.
The Current Media Inc.
Lafayette, LAThe Current is a nonprofit news organization serving Lafayette and southern Louisiana. It connects Lafayette to stories that matter and helps readers understand how the community works—and how to make it better. The free publication reflects the community’s diversity of people and ideas, striving for accuracy, fairness, transparency, and inclusiveness.
The Jersey Vindicator
Princeton, NJThe Jersey Vindicator tells stories no one else is telling in the state about how the powerful operate, with the aim of sparking change and solutions. In a state where democracy has eroded due to recent laws gutting campaign finance reform and public records access, it seeks to shed light on how government functions while engaging and serving residents and sharing information in new ways to reach new and younger audiences.
Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism
Somerville, MAThe Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism (BINJ) supports the development and production of independent news reporting in Massachusetts. BINJ provides organizational support to community publications, runs reporting collaborations and civic engagement initiatives, trains new and early-career journalists, and produces bold, independent journalism.
Future Tides
Seattle, WAFuture Tides covers how people work, play, and live on the Pacific Northwest’s waterways to help the maritime community navigate what’s next. Its vision is to be at the center of a more collaborative, sustainable, and equitable maritime community.
The Scope
Boston, MAThe Scope is a hyperlocal digital news organization focused on telling stories of justice, hope, and resilience in Greater Boston. It is editorially independent and operated by Northeastern University’s School of Journalism and Media Innovation to serve the news needs of under-covered communities; train the next generation of journalists in covering local news; and empower community members to tell their own stories.
Jackson Advocate
Jackson, MSSince 1938, the Jackson Advocate has steadfastly served as the voice of Black Mississippians, documenting their challenges, sacrifices, and triumphs. Its mission remains rooted in social justice advocacy, informing the community on critical local, national, and global issues. Today, it leverages digital platforms, including a website, social media, webcasts, podcasts, and investigative journalism to reach a broader and more diverse audience.
The Mānoa Mirror
Honolulu, HIThe Mānoa Mirror (The Mirror) is a student-driven, community-centered online newsroom affiliated with the Journalism Program in the School of Communication and Information at University of Hawai'i at Mānoa (UH Mānoa). The Mirror reports on issues within Hawai'i, focusing on the state as the community and its residents as the primary audience.
Chinese Radio Seattle
Bellevue, WAChinese Radio Seattle’s mission is to create a bridge between Chinese Americans and the U.S. mainstream society, to raise the voice of the Chinese American community, and to serve the Chinese/Asian community in the greater Seattle area, Washington state, and across the country.
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