Civic Tech Field Guide

News for Chinese

San Jose, CA

News 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.

Sierra Nevada Ally

Carson City, NV

Sierra Nevada Ally builds healthy communities informed by facts with a focus on environmental, civics, and cultural reporting from underserved communities of the Sierra Nevada and beyond.

Atlanta Civic Circle

Atlanta, GA

Atlanta Civic Circle informs the public on the most critical issues facing the Atlanta metro area by providing in-depth reporting and presenting possible solutions with opportunities for civic engagement online and in the community.

Front Runner New Jersey.com

Atlantic City, NJ

Front 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.

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Atlantic City Focus

Pleasantville, NJ

Atlantic City Focus promotes civic engagement and encourages members of the African American community to share their voices. It provides news and information that readers can use to combat social ills that plague Atlantic City and other BIPOC communities, while providing an outlet to celebrate African American culture, history, and traditions.

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.

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.

Cicero Independiente

Cicero, IL

Cicero Independiente serves the diverse communities of Cicero and Berwyn with inclusive and bilingual news and storytelling opportunities that elevate local voices and foster civic engagement. It envisions a future in which every member of the community in Cicero and Berwyn is informed, engaged, and empowered to tell their own stories, shaping the narrative of their community.

The Kansas City Defender

Kansas City, MO

The Kansas City Defender produces information and programs for the survival and flourishing of Black people distributed in innovative and accessible ways.

The Independent Florida Alligator

Gainesville, FL

The 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.

Dorchester Reporter

Boston, MA

The Dorchester Reporter is a family-owned and operated community news organization committed to delivering high-quality journalism to the people of Boston’s neighborhoods with a focus on traditionally underserved communities in Dorchester and Mattapan since 1983.

The Independent News

Albuquerque, NM

The 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.

El Planeta

Boston, MA

El Planeta empowers, informs, and connects the vibrant Hispanic community of Greater Boston. As the largest Spanish-language news provider in the state, it is dedicated to delivering timely, relevant, and impactful news and information. More than just a newspaper, El Planeta is a community advocate and a cultural bridge that enriches the lives of Hispanic individuals and families throughout Massachusetts.

Iron String Press Inc. (Publisher of The Freeman's Journal/Hometown Oneonta/AllOtsego.com)

Cooperstown, NY

Iron String Press publications serve rural Otsego County, N.Y. The award-winning newspapers are locally owned and disseminate information in a thoughtful, impartial, and unbiased fashion, covering topics that impact county residents directly on a local, statewide, regional, national, and/or international level.

The Philadelphia Hall Monitor

Philadelphia, PA

The Philadelphia Hall Monitor covers news that impacts Philadelphia’s diverse neighborhood organizations and concerned citizens, focusing on how city programs impact families experiencing poverty, consumers, and those without access to traditional power structures.

The Atlanta Voice

Atlanta, GA

The Atlanta Voice helps shape the African American diaspora narrative by producing and distributing compelling informative and educational content across multiple platforms that focus the world’s attention on what it truly means to be Black in America.

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.

Amplify Utah

Salt Lake City, UT

Amplify Utah empowers student and emerging journalists by providing the resources, opportunities, and mentorship needed to develop their skills and make a meaningful impact. In collaboration with local media, it works to ensure that every voice is heard and valued, bridging gaps and building understanding across all communities in Utah.

The Jersey Vindicator

Princeton, NJ

The 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.

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.

The Maine Monitor

Augusta, ME

The Maine Monitor delivers fearless, independent, citizen-supported, nonpartisan journalism that informs Mainers about the issues impacting their state and inspires them to take action. Through investigative and in-depth stories, it engages readers to participate and connect to create a better Maine.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Indiana Public Broadcasting News

Indianapolis, IN

Indiana 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, MI

EL 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.

Tri-City Collective

Tulsa, OK

Tri-City Collective builds community through creativity, educational programs, and shared history, offering creative projects/programs that serve as catalysts for community activation and an array of human experiences.

The Austin Common

Austin, TX

The 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, AZ

The 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.

Reach

Queens, NY

The grassroots organizing app that lets you meet people where they are.

Amjambo Africa

Westbrook, ME

Amjambo 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.

The JOLT News Organization

Tumwater, WA

The 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, MO

Excelsior 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, PA

NEXTpittsburgh delivers news and ideas on what matters to the people who care about Pittsburgh in the way they want it.

Redwood Community Radio

Redway, CA

Redwood 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.

The State Press at Arizona State University

Tempe, AZ

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.

Sopris Sun

Carbondale, CO

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

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.

Institute for Public Service Reporting at the University of Memphis

Memphis, TN

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, OK

The 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.

The Lund Report

Portland, OR

The 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, CA

The 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.

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