Press Forward is investing $22.7 million in 22 local news infrastructure projects, including:
- A crisis reporting playbook built from the Hurricane Helene response
in North Carolina. This could help in covering events like the flooding in Texas.
- Trauma-informed safety training and mental health services for front-line
reporters.
- Funding of the Internet Archive to secure the legacy of local reporting.
The funding was generated through Press Forward’s Open Call on
Infrastructure. More than 550 applications were received.
The groups receiving these grants are dealing with these challenges:
- Making it easier for newsrooms to
prepare for crises
- Working to protect a free and independent press.
- Making sure journalists are safe and healthy.
- Helping
newsrooms reach financial sustainability.
- Lifting up underserved communities.
- Using AI for good.
- Supporting collaboration to
make newsrooms stronger together.
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Today’s local newsrooms are much smaller than 25 years ago – doing more with less amid rapid technological
change and an always-on news cycle,” Dale R. Anglin and Christina Shih write. “As the sector continues to evolve, local newsrooms need shared resources and tools to strengthen
operations, keep journalists healthy and safe, and develop new revenue streams.”
The recipients include:
BOMESI--$750,000
City Bureau--$1.25 million
Global Center
for Journalism and Trauma--$1.25 million
Immigrant News Coalition--$1.5 million
Indigenous Journalists Association—$500,000
High Plains
Public Radio--$750,000
International Women's Media Foundation—$1.5 million
Internet Archive—$1 million
Journalism + Design Lab
at The New School—$1.5 million
Latino Media Consortium—$750,000
LION Publishers—$1 million
Meedan—$1
million
MuckRock Foundation—$1.25 million
NCRC Community Development Fund, Inc.—$1.25 million
OpenNews—$1.2 million
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press—$1.25 million
Rocky Mountain Community Radio—$1 million
Spotlight PA—$500,000
Start.coop—$1.5 million
Type Investigations—$1 million
Vita Activa--$500,000
Voices Internship of
Idaho—$500,000