• by Ray Schultz , August 28, 2024

The Associated Press has formed content-sharing agreements with three nonprofit newsrooms: Deep South Today, The Maine Monitor and The Nevada Independent. 

Each nonprofit outlet will share AP content with its audience. And AP will provide stories from the nonprofits to its members and customers.

Earlier this year, AP announced content arrangements with CalMatters, Honolulu Civil Beat, Montana Free Press, Nebraska Journalism Trust, South Dakota News Watch and The Texas Tribune

AP hopes to expand local news reach ahead of this year’s presidential election. 

“As we gear up for the 2024 U.S. presidential election, AP’s efforts to expand access to factual, nonpartisan journalism are more critical than ever,” says AP U.S. News Director Josh Hoffner. “By working with nonprofit news outlets in Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi and Nevada we are able to reach local audiences and deliver the facts and information they need about issues that matter.”

Meanwhile, the Maine Monitor is eager to “expand the reach of The Maine Monitor’s nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative reporting on issues impacting people in Maine, many of which, rural health care, impacts of climate change, opioid recovery, judicial accountability, care for aging citizens, are national, and solutions being tried in Maine can inform discussions elsewhere,”  says Micaela Schweitzer-Bluhm, executive director of The Maine Monitor.