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Voices of Monterey Bay
Salinas, CAVoices 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, 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.
Indiana Public Broadcasting News
Indianapolis, INIndiana Public Broadcasting News equips residents of Indiana with timely and relevant information and resources to help build stronger communities across the state.
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.
The Black Wall Street Times
Tulsa, OKThe Black Wall Street Times is the premier source for local and national news with a focus on amplifying Black voices and experiences. Located in the historic Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma, the publication stands at the intersection of journalism, advocacy, and community empowerment.
Sopris Sun
Carbondale, COSopris Sun informs, inspires, and builds community by fostering diverse and independent journalism.
Canopy Atlanta
Atlanta, GACanopy 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, FLMediaLab 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, IALa 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, OKNonDoc’s mission is to produce and distribute quality journalism with context that enables civic involvement.
The Austin Common
Austin, TXThe Austin Common makes the city’s democracy more inclusive, representative, and accessible for all by reporting the local news in a way that is empowering, deeply rooted in community, and created in direct service to their audience. It serves Austinites who have been left out of the local democratic system and underserved by news media, primarily young people and non-regular news readers/news avoiders.
Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting
Phoenix, AZThe Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting is the state’s only independent, nonpartisan and collaborative nonprofit newsroom dedicated to statewide data-driven investigative reporting. Its mission is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable by exposing injustice and systemic inequities through investigative journalism.
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.
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.
LOOKOUT Publications
Phoenix, AZLOOKOUT 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, 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.
The State Press is a bold, risk-taking digital student media organization at Arizona State University intent on ethically serving, provoking, and challenging a large and changing university community.
The Lund Report
Portland, ORThe Lund Report is an independent, nonpartisan news service that produces high-quality journalism about health care in Oregon and southwest Washington. Its public-service journalism promotes the awareness and understanding required for positive progress, while holding industry and government accountable, bringing to light the underlying dynamics of health care that affect patients, practitioners, and the public, spotlighting disparities and inequities in the system.
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.
BenitoLink
Hollister, CABenitoLink connects San Benito County residents through trustworthy local news and information while encouraging public dialogue to foster an engaged community. It has built a trusted news site that covers government actions in the county, explores issues while educating readers, and publishes stories about everyday heroes and nonprofits that knit people together in common purpose.
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.
SJV Water
Bakersfield, CASJV Water provides independent, unbiased news about water issues in the San Joaquin Valley, including who controls the water; how it is moved, traded, and sold; and its various impacts on local communities.
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.
Excelsior Citizen
Excelsior Springs, MOExcelsior Citizen connects and enriches the community of Excelsior Springs by delivering comprehensive local news, insightful community coverage, and effective civic engagement. It strives to be the leading source of local information that residents trust and rely upon.
NEXTpittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PANEXTpittsburgh delivers news and ideas on what matters to the people who care about Pittsburgh in the way they want it.
Lab Cultural Ciudadano (LABNL)
MonterreySomos un espacio público de producción cultural abierta en dónde todas y todos podemos colaborar, experimentar y prototipar proyectos para el bien común.
Tech Policy Press is tracking laws and regulations, along with government investigations and litigation, that will shape the rules and accountability for tech companies.
"Importantly, people experiencing distress are more likely to engage in collective action on climate change or express a willingness to do so, even when controlling for several correlates of environmental behavior"
Party Data Trust
43, Susaek-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea데이터트러스트는 공익 단체, 공공 기관, 시민, 연구자 등 다양한 주체들이 함께 공익 데이터를 생산, 관리, 공유하는 데이터 거버넌스 체계를 만듭니다. (DataTrust creates a data governance system in which various entities, including public interest organizations, public institutions, citizens, and researchers, work together to produce, manage, and share public interest data)
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43, Susaek-ro, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul, Republic of KoreaGamification features on the Parti Campaigns platform
A nonprofit media and community venture intended to provoke new ideas, debate and discussion at the intersection of technology and democracy.
Fellowship for Maintainers
Germany (Deutschland)A pilot program to pay maintainers of critical open source technologies.
Working for an MP (w4mp)
Parliament Square, London, UKThe Working for an MP website is a resource for anyone working for a British Member of Parliament or with an interest in how Parliament works.
Bad Matt
Burlington, VTA "protest plugin" that allows Wordpress administrators to set their Stripe plug-in's to credit referral payments to their own accounts.
The Sunday Show is the weekly (and sometimes more often) podcast from Tech Policy Press.
Economic Change Unit
LondonThe Economic Change Unit (ECU) campaigns to change the way the economy works so that everyone has the freedom and security to
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w4mpjobs
LondonWelcome to w4mpjobs, funded by the House of Commons to provide career development opportunities for those working for MPs and those who are looking for a job with an MP or in other areas of political activity.
As an academic community that believes in technology’s potential to have a positive impact on public life, Missouri S&T is honored to be recognized as a member of the Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN).
This is a collective of dedicated individuals and organizations committed to fostering ethical AI practices, encouraging research, and addressing the societal implications of AI across Africa and largely the Global South.
The AI Governance Fellowship is a pioneering program dedicated to advancing the fairness and integrity of AI technologies in the Global South, with a focus on African nations.
MOXY
Washington, DCA Social Ecosystem connecting Voters, Elected Representatives, Thought Leaders and Authorized Organizations
A grassroots interdisciplinary responsible AI lab for Africa and the Global South. Researching technical alignment and governance of AI
The Rural Infrastructure Challenge Summit is an in-person mentoring event and workshop to inspire the next-generation of solvers in rural communities.
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