Civic Tech Field Guide

BenitoLink

Hollister, CA

BenitoLink 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

CampaignSidekick

United States of America (the)

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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 a relational organizing app that matches your phone contacts to the voter file and shows you their party and districts. Just swipe blue (left) like Tinder to text them to register, donate, attend an event, or vote!

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.

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.

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.

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.

Lede New Orleans

New Orleans, LA

Lede New Orleans is a community journalism nonprofit that equips creative professionals from underrepresented communities, ages 18-25, with the skills, tools, and resources to transform local media. The outlet meets information needs in Black, Latino, and other New Orleans communities that are underrepresented in local legacy media through media produced by young people from those same communities.

Sandoval Signpost

Albuquerque, NM

The Sandoval Signpost is the only countywide local news outlet serving the historic communities of Sandoval County, N.M. Formerly a monthly print-only paper, it now includes a weekly print issue and weekly digital e-edition with coverage of county government, the Town of Bernalillo, the community of Placitas, and expanding coverage across Sandoval County’s unique and diverse rural communities.

Black Voice News

Riverside, CA

Publishing in the spirit of the Black Press, the Black Voice News mantra, since its founding over 50 years ago, is “justice seeking reporting.” Its mission is to inform, engage, and empower its community with information while amplifying the voices of the Black community in Riverside and San Bernardino counties.

Hmong Daily News

Sacramento, CA

Hmong Daily News delivers news and information to its community in Sacramento that inspires, moves, and motivates readers.

The River Reporter

Narrowsburg, NY

The River Reporter provides accurate and important community news and sponsors local forums and creative conversations, events, and initiatives (in collaboration with local organizations) to enhance the quality of life and increase civic engagement in the communities of the Upper Delaware River Valley

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