Our Mission
We equip local media to build trusted, resilient, people-first organizations capable of navigating change and strengthening civic life in their communities.
We strengthen the relationship between news organizations and their communities by fostering civic discourse, supporting press freedom and ensuring people have the trusted information they need to participate in civic life.
We help local news organizations build people-centered, adaptive and inclusive cultures that can navigate change and lead in an AI-supported future.
We develop actionable insights, tools and operational strategies that support sustainable, innovative and data-informed news organizations.
Featured Research
We imagine a future where evidence, data and peer assessment support decision-making in journalism — whether by reporters, editors or news executives — and where journalism better informs the questions researchers ask.
Longtime philanthropic supporters of journalism are doubling down on local journalism specifically—and encouraging others to join them.
How might you partner with philanthropy or take donations to bolster your opinion section’s role as a convener and contributor to civic discourse?
News leaders have told us that they want to better support reporters and editors who will be covering an election for the first time. That’s why we’re sharing portions of this media guide to covering elections and voting from The Elections Group.
Special Editions & Series
We asked four summit participants to share more about the ways they are defining, measuring and acting on signals of impact.
Three frameworks for how journalists can engage with non-news experts and researchers to help solve a problem, rethink a beat or collaborate on an experiment
We gathered news leaders and non-news experts to discuss what it looks like to build sustainable youth engagement efforts into their coverage and fundraising. We asked four summit participants to share more about the ways they are funding experiments with youth engagement in their communities.
API Products & Programs
Helping journalists and media leaders transform their local news businesses to better serve diverse communities
Improving how newsrooms cover communities of color by assessing seven areas to reveal inequitable practices
