Updates

Mike Rispoli of Free Press talks to the Columbia Journalism Review about government support for local journalism.

It took almost five years but it’s finally happened.

TRENTON — The state is releasing the first $1 million of the $2 million earmarked for the Civic Info Consortium, a historic initiative to strengthen local news.

A look at 10 of the most exemplary collaborations of the year.

The Philadelphia Organizing and Media Collaborative will work to replace prevailing media narratives with complex stories about trauma, safety and crime.

In collaboration with coLAB Arts and United Way of Northern New Jersey, Free Press today launched 37 Voices, featuring stories of people struggling to get by.

Amid the steady decline in local news, some states are considering stepping in to support the Fourth Estate.

The Colorado Media Project and Free Press hosted a forum on ways to strengthen local media.

A new Colorado Media Project report makes the case for public funding of local journalism.

What if, instead of urging the public to care about the future of news, we ask communities how they want to their stories to be told?