Civic Tech Field Guide

Green Philly

Philadelphia, PA

Green 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.

South Side Weekly

Chicago, IL

South Side Weekly is a teaching paper dedicated to supporting early-career and emerging journalists from the South Side of Chicago and delivering high-quality arts, culture, and political coverage to South Side neighborhoods.

WTIP North Shore Community Radio

Grand Marais, MN

WTIP is a dynamic local media resource that connects, reflects, and builds community on the North Shore of Lake Superior, providing a forum for local perspectives that supports an informed public, is built on journalistic integrity, empowers storytelling, strengthens democracy, and invests in the well-being of the community.

Mineral Independent

Plains, MT

Mineral Independent serves as the cornerstone of the communities in Sanders and Mineral counties through a steadfast commitment to community journalism and the delivery of factual information.

Qnotes

Charlotte, NC

Qnotes 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.

Wausau Pilot & Review

Wausau, WI

Wausau Pilot and Review delivers in-depth reporting and analysis that improves local decision-making. It seeks to drive the public conversation, set the agenda on key issues, and empower people through insight, information, and engagement. The independent nonprofit newsroom is devoted to hard-hitting journalism that serves the people of central Wisconsin.

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.

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.

The Nome Nugget

Nome, AK

The Nome Nugget, Alaska’s oldest newspaper, has been in circulation since 1900. The Nome Nugget is the trusted sole source of locally and regionally relevant news for more than 10,000 people living in a vast and isolated area of western rural Alaska; its mission is to seek the truth and report it.

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.

Black Belt News Network

Selma, AL

The Black Belt News Network believes citizens of the Black Belt––the poorest and most rural region in Alabama––deserve access to the same quality and variety of news and information as their big-city cousins. The Black Belt News Network serves Dallas, Marengo, Perry, Lowndes, and Wilcox counties with a robust digital news site and a range of social media assets, including the area’s only live newscast.

The Providence Eye

Providence, RI

The Providence Eye is a nonprofit journalistic initiative devoted to informing and empowering the public about events and issues of concern to residents and visitors of Providence, R.I., and its environs.

VoteRaiser

United States of America (the)

VoteRaisers empower your supporters to reach out directly to their Democratic friends—encouraging them to register, volunteer, and VOTE for Democrats!

Alaska News Coalition

Juneau, AK

The Alaska News Coalition's mission is to support the continuation of local, rural, news in Alaska.

2PuntosPlatform

Delanco, NJ

2PuntosPlatform uses journalism as a tool for social change with a focus on Latine and Caribbean communities and their migration processes. Through connections and collaborations with these communities, it strives to reduce ideological gaps between immigrants and Americans and to foster mutual respect and understanding.

9 Millones

San Juan, PR

9 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.

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.

Vinegar Hill Magazine

Charlottesville, VA

Vinegar Hill Magazine is designed to support and project a more inclusive social narrative, to promote entrepreneurship, and to be a beacon for art, culture, and politics in the Central Virginia region.

Kansas University School of Journalism - Good Morning Indian Country

Lawrence, KS

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.

Windy City Times

Chicago, IL

Windy City Times creates content that is by, for, and about Chicago’s LGBTQ+ community. Since 1985, the free publication has ensured that the LGBTQ+ and allied communities have the information and resources they need to make informed decisions on healthcare, policy, advocacy, and more.

RANGE Media

Spokane, WA

RANGE is a local, independent, worker-owned newsroom serving Spokane County with an emphasis on engaging communities not adequately served, reached, or represented by traditional media. The anti-racist, equity-minded, class-focused newsroom centers the perspectives and expertise of members of marginalized communities and provides tools to engage with power and advocate for their needs.

The Real WV

Ronceverte, WV

The Real WV is a nonprofit multimedia organization that reaches beyond the headlines to touch the heart of Appalachian identity. By celebrating good news and honestly facing bad news, it tells real stories about real West Virginians and the experiences that shape them.

Down in the County

Oriental, NC

Down in the County is a weekly publication that fights conspiracy theories with reliable, visual-first journalism and bridge-building by providing news literacy, training and ethical content from a diverse pool of local storytellers.

Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service

Milwaukee, WI

The Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service provides professional, evidence-based, nonpartisan reporting to its readers, primarily in Black and Latinx communities. The news service celebrates the resilience of residents by consistently spotlighting the many ordinary people who do extraordinary things; educates readers by connecting them to resources that can help uncomplicate their busy lives; and reports on issues that create much-needed dialogue while holding institutions and leaders accountable.

KVNF Mountain Grown Community Radio

Paonia, CO

KVNF engages its communities by providing access to diverse music, news, and voices, envisioning listeners who are participating, inspired, active, and well-informed with a local and global perspective that emphasizes journalistic integrity.

Hy-Lo News

Miami, FL

Hy-Lo News provides Black and brown millennials with hyperlocal news and information. Hy-Lo News gives a voice to millennials by creating news articles, video interviews, and panel discussions about breaking news, hot topics, and social issues of the day, presenting news in a tone that is engaging to millennials in South Florida.

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.

Penobscot Bay Press

Stonington, ME

Penobscot Bay Press provides information products and services to the communities it serves with news of governmental, civic, business, and educational institutions; coverage of social doings and in-depth looks at individuals and events; notification of meetings and happenings; and opinions of staff and others on the important issues and problems facing its communities.

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.

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.

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.

SwipeBlue

United States of America (the)

SwipeBlue is fun and easy - it's Tinder for Democratic organizing! Just swipe blue (left) to send your friends a helpful voting text.

ecoRI News

Providence, RI

ecoRI News is dedicated to reporting on environmental and social justice issues in Rhode Island. Through its reporting, ecoRI creates a more informed public and provides individuals with the information they need to be better stewards of their environment.

El Comercio de Colorado

Denver, CO

El Comercio de Colorado is a bilingual multi-media organization targeting the growing Hispanic/Latinx community in Colorado since 2006. El Comercio’s goal is to empower the Hispanic/Latinx community through information, engagement, and advocacy.

Richland Source

Mansfield, OH

Richland Source is a nationally recognized online community news organization serving the citizens of North Central Ohio that is driven by a deeply held belief that news organizations serve their community best when they are involved in it.

India Currents Foundation

San Jose, CA

India Currents is an award-winning nonprofit, nonpartisan, ethnic media organization that serves the news and information needs of the fast-growing Indian American population in the San Francisco Bay Area.

CampaignSidekick

United States of America (the)

Supercharge your ground game. Fast. Preferred GOP Vendor and Trump campaign as a client.

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.

South Dakota News Watch

Sioux Falls, SD

South Dakota News Watch is an independent nonprofit organization reporting untold stories that help South Dakotans be informed and engaged citizens. South Dakota News Watch produces investigative and public service journalism that sheds light on the issues, concerns, and welfare of South Dakotans.

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.

Athens County Independent

Athens, OH

The Athens County Independent empowers community engagement through accessible public service journalism.

Samoana Meda LLC

Honolulu, HI

Sāmoana Media is a social enterprise that focuses on promoting Samoan and other Pacific Islander initiatives, particularly through education and the exploration of language, culture, history, and contemporary issues.

Sunlight Media Collective

Lamoine, ME

Sunlight Media Collective is an organization of Indigenous and non-Indigenous media makers and activists, including Wabanaki citizens, working to document and present stories affecting Wabanaki people and highlighting Wabanaki perspectives, with a particular emphasis on the intersection between environmental issues and Indigenous rights.

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.

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.

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