Civic Tech Field Guide

New Hampshire Center for Public Interest Journalism, publisher of INDepthNH.org

Barrington, NH

InDepthNH.org gives a voice to marginalized people, places, and ideas, demonstrating its commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion by the stories and columns it publishes.

California Health Report

Los Angeles, CA

The California Health Report is a nonprofit news organization that partners with communities across the state to share stories and offer solutions to health equity issues. It collaborates with people with disabilities, communities of color, immigrants, low-income Californians, violence survivors, rural residents, and many others to help them share ideas for making the world more equitable.

The Scope

Boston, MA

The 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.

Future Tides

Seattle, WA

Future 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.

Ethiopique

Washington, DC

Ethiopique empowers, informs, and connects the Amharic-speaking community in the Washington, DC, metro area with trusted content, providing educational resources, insightful articles, and news that enhance lives and inform decisions.

Dallas Voice

Dallas, TX

Dallas Voice is the trusted voice of the LGBTQ+ community of North Texas, promoting, protecting, and informing the community and bringing people together to tell their stories.

SPEAK MPLS

Minneapolis, MN

SPEAK MPLS is reimagining the future of media by activating community connections and creative opportunities to amplify the voices of its neighbors.

NotiVisión Georgia

Warner Robins, GA

NotiVisión Georgia informs, educates, and advocates for the Hispanic community in Georgia, providing high-quality news content and connecting viewers with local resources. Its goal is to promote social change and build bridges of understanding among communities in the state.

Jackson Advocate

Jackson, MS

Since 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, HI

The 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, WA

Chinese 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.

Questa del Rio News

Questa, NM

Questa del Rio News provides public access and representation for historically underserved communities in northern Taos County and the San Luis Valley, preserving the culture, history, traditions, and stories of its people through strong, meaningful journalism.

Flint Beat

Flint, MI

Flint 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, LA

The 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.

El Tecolote

San Francisco

El Tecolote is the voice of San Francisco’s “pueblo,” reporting news that shapes the lives of Latinx people who live or work in the city. Located in the heart of the Latino Cultural District, it documents, fosters, and amplifies the community’s vibrant role in the city’s political, art, and cultural scenes.

Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism

Somerville, MA

The 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.

365 Media Foundation

Fitchburg, WI

365 Media Foundation provides news coverage that starts conversations, finds lasting solutions, builds community, invites action, fosters dialogue among diverse communities, and encourages emerging leaders of color. Its online and print publications, such as Madison365 and Blueprint365, tell stories from a lens of underrepresented racial and ethnic groups.

Charlottesville Tomorrow

Charlottesville, VA

Charlottesville Tomorrow delivers in-depth reporting and analysis that improves local decision-making in central Virginia. It seeks to expand civic engagement to foster a vibrant, inclusive, and interdependent community.

Henrico Citizen

Henrico, VA

Across five digital daily weekday platforms, the 23-year-old Henrico Citizen seeks to tell the story of Henrico County, Va., through fair, tenacious, thorough, and clear nonpartisan journalism that enlightens, informs, and impacts the county and its nearly 335,000 citizens.

St. Louis Argus

St. Louis, MO

The St. Louis Argus is the oldest African American publication in Missouri and sixth oldest in the country. Its aim is to provide content that covers the culture, news, arts, business, and social justice, environmental, and political issues of its community. The Argus advocates on behalf of marginalized people and matters that may sit beyond mainstream media.

Sol de Medianoche News

Anchorage, AK

Sol de Medianoche produces local, accurate, and meaningful bilingual Spanish and English content essential for the Latino community in Alaska. Its mission is to inform, educate, and unite the community.

West Texas Tribune

Abilene, TX

The West Texas Tribune informs and engages the citizens of Abilene and surrounding communities by providing fair, factual, and reliable in-depth news stories about local government, institutions, nonprofit institutions, issues, and people. Its nonprofit journalism amplifies voices in divested neighborhoods and explores solutions for those seeking social, economic, and criminal justice and racial equity.

News Letter Journal

Newcastle, WY

News Letter Journal covers the news, sports, and entertainment important to the people of Weston County, Wyo., and provides them with the information they need to be active and engaged citizens.

285 South

Decatur, GA

285 South is Atlanta’s only English-language news outlet dedicated to covering the metro region’s growing immigrant communities. Its mission is to improve the quality of life of the communities it covers by highlighting issues these communities face as well as celebrating their successes, bringing them to the attention of decision-makers and others who want to support.

KHASOKHAS

Corona, NY

Khasokhas, or “verified truth,” has been the voice of the Nepali community in New York City since 2012, breaking down language barriers and providing accessible, vital information on immigration, housing, taxes, health, and more. Its goal is to be the bridge for Nepali-speaking immigrants who struggle with English, offering resources in the Nepali language through distinctive reporting, impactful storytelling, interviews, and analysis.

LOOKOUT Publications

Phoenix, AZ

LOOKOUT Publications delivers fearless journalism and dynamic community events that amplify and expand LGBTQ+ representation in Arizona on every news stage, engaging, empowering, and strengthen LGBTQ+ communities and their allies by telling authentic, impactful stories that transcend stereotypes, hold power to account, and champion equality and respect for all.

Austin Vida

Austin, TX

Austin 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.

Sopris Sun

Carbondale, CO

Sopris Sun informs, inspires, and builds community by fostering diverse and independent journalism.

Canopy Atlanta

Atlanta, GA

Canopy Atlanta is a community journalism nonprofit that chooses, reports, and shares stories with Atlantans, redefining who journalism is by and for. It tells stories that are responsive to community desires and help residents access high-quality information about the issues that matter most.

MediaLab @ FAU

Boca Raton, FL

MediaLab engages Florida Atlantic University’s diverse student body in developing advanced media skills as they report, document, and produce high-value content that can be republished by local media partners and a wider audience throughout the multicultural and linguistically diverse South Florida region.

La Prensa Iowa

Denison, IA

La Prensa Iowa is a Spanish-language biweekly newspaper founded in 2006 in the rural community of Denison, Iowa, that is committed to providing accurate, balanced, and impactful local journalism that addresses the needs, interests, and concerns of its readers. It is offered free of charge at multiple locations throughout the state.

NonDoc Media

Oklahoma City, OK

NonDoc’s mission is to produce and distribute quality journalism with context that enables civic involvement.

Voices of Monterey Bay

Salinas, CA

Voices of Monterey Bay amplifies and celebrates the diverse peoples of the Monterey Bay Crescent. By providing a forum where new ideas are debated, Voices serves as a catalyst to improve its readers’ quality of life.

Sandpoint Reader

Sandpoint, ID

The 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, OR

Eugene 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.

Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle

Pittsburgh, PA

The Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle connects the Greater Pittsburgh Jewish community, serving it and strengthening it by providing compelling news, analysis, and information.

Alamosa Citizen

Alamosa, CO

Alamosa Citizen is a member-supported, nonpartisan daily online newspaper that works to provide information and build civic involvement in the San Luis Valley. It reports on daily news events and happenings and develops issue-oriented enterprise journalism, community-supported daily podcasts and live-stream broadcasts, and live-event programming.

Baltimore Beat

Baltimore, MD

Baltimore Beat is a Black-led, Black-controlled nonprofit newspaper and media outlet whose mission is to honor the tradition of the Black press and the spirit of alt-weekly journalism with reporting that focuses on community, questions power structures, and prioritizes thoughtful engagement with readers, including those with limited internet access and those from underrepresented communities.

LebTown

Lebanon, PA

LebTown is an independent media organization that provides timely, accurate, and comprehensive journalism intended to help people navigate their daily lives and promote the general well-being of Lebanon County, Pa.

Hola Carolina

Asheville, NC

Hola 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.

Dallas Free Press

Dallas, TX

Dallas Free Press amplifies voices in disinvested Dallas neighborhoods and explores solutions to the city’s systemic inequities by providing fair, equitable media representation and the communication infrastructure they historically lacked, so they can access the civic information they need and pursue next steps to seeking solutions and pushing for change.

Shasta Scout

Redding, CA

Shasta Scout strengthens democracy by providing access to trustworthy information in a way that deepens and empowers engagement with the news, neighbors, and people in power for readers in Shasta County, Calif.

The Land

Cleveland, OH

The 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.

San Miguel Basin Forum

Nucla, CO

San Miguel Basin Forum covers all sides of issues respectfully and gives a voice to all community members in the West End of Montrose and San Miguel counties.

Uvalde Leader-News

Uvalde, TX

The Uvalde Leader-News is a locally owned newspaper covering Uvalde County, Tex., and it is the region's primary public information source. The Leader-News believes that freedom of the press is paramount to preserving the rights guaranteed under the First Amendment. Empowered by that freedom and its responsibility, the Leader-News pledges that its reporting will be impartial regardless of party, sect, or special interests.

Epicenter-NYC

Jackson Heights, NY

Epicenter-NYC is an emerging mission-driven and local-first multiplatform journalism organization that seeks to connect and engage New York City communities to one another through arts, culture, and civic education.

Midcoast Villager (Belfast Villager)

Camden, ME

Midcoast 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.

Anchor Media, LLC

Hingham, MA

Anchor Media helps residents in Hingham, Mass., stay informed through hyperlocal journalism in order to create a more aware and connected community.

KCAW Raven Radio

Sitka, AK

KCAW 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, TX

The 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.

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