We’re excited to share an interim report on our progress to date. In it, you’ll find: 🗞️Our funder coalition is growing 🗞️Millions are being invested in the local news field and 🗞️ We’re putting down roots across the U.S. We’re still in #PressForward’s year 1, and we’re just getting started on our mission to strengthen communities by reimagining local news. Thank you to all of our partners who have made this work possible! Read the report: https://lnkd.in/e7i-n2eb
Press Forward
Philanthropic Fundraising Services
A national coalition strengthening communities by reinvigorating local news
About us
Press Forward is a historic initiative to strengthen democracy in the United States by revitalizing local news and information. The steady and significant decline in the availability of reliable, fact-based local news across the country is connected to growing threats to democracy, increasing polarization, and the spread of disinformation. At the same time, over a decade of investment in journalism experimentation and transformation have produced new models and solutions that are ready to scale, and a new generation of leaders prepared to reinvent and revitalize the field. It’s time to move from individual grantmaking strategies to a shared vision and coordinated action. Press Forward is a national coalition investing more than $500 million to strengthen local newsrooms, close longstanding gaps in journalism coverage, advance public policy that expands access to local news, and to scale the infrastructure the sector needs to thrive. Join the movement at pressforward.news.
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https://www.pressforward.news/
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- Philanthropic Fundraising Services
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- 2-10 employees
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- 2023
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#ChooseTruth on World News Day - and every day - by supporting your independent local news outlets. Strong local news sources —>> vibrant communities. Learn more at worldnewsday.org #WorldNewsDay
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Press Forward reposted this
📅 The 2024 election is only 40 days away. Journalists, newsrooms, and community organizations looking for election coverage support: check out the Knight Election Hub for free and subsidized resources on data, software, polling, training, and access to expertise. ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gYmmShzk
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High-quality, immigrant-focused journalism can help cut through denigrating comments and dispel misinformation - Alicia Bell and Mazin Sidahmed in The Chronicle of Philanthropy.
As Lies About Immigrants Flourish, Nonprofit Ethnic Newsrooms Need Support
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Press Forward reposted this
"In order to maintain the role of accurate information in a democratic society, we must create new, decentralized news structures that respond to the perspectives of younger Americans and meet increasingly fragmented audiences wherever they are. Given the tremendous shifts in technology, national diversity, and the organizational economics of journalism, it’s the only way forward." A must read from Imara Jones https://lnkd.in/ed3Xq6hR
Imara Jones on small-scale, decentralized news structures - Ford Foundation
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These local newsrooms believe "journalism must be rooted in being concretely useful to the communities it serves, and act like a part of the community — which, in some cases, means taking actions beyond the traditional boundaries of reporting." Read more in Nieman Journalism Lab about how these outlets are engaging communities. Know another good example? Let us know in the comments. via Sophie Culpepper
Local journalists try new methods to reach, serve, and build trust with audiences
https://www.niemanlab.org
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Silicon Valley is our 26th local chapter - and our third in California: Welcome Silicon Valley Community Foundation to Press Forward! Our locals help raise funds and attract new donors for local news in their backyards. Silicon Valley Community Foundation has long invested in local news, and its Press Forward chapter will help strengthen that initiative. Learn more about Silicon Valley’s chapter: https://bit.ly/3TscRN5 Of find out more about what it takes to create a local chapter: https://bit.ly/3XJznDG
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At our recent funder’s summit, we loved hearing from newsrooms funded by Press Forward Chicago - including the South Side Weekly and the Invisible Institute. Both are housed in the same co-working space and collaborate on stories, but their histories and approaches to informing Chicago residents differ. The South Side Weekly began as a student newspaper at the University of Chicago, and holds true to those roots. It still sees itself as a training ground for emerging journalists as it publishes a free print edition focused on “active, participatory, community based journalism,” Executive Director Malik Jackson said. The Invisible Institute, meanwhile, began as a network of people fighting for the rights of public housing residents in the 1990s. Today, the Institute combines data-based investigations with residents lived experiences to create impactful investigations on hate crimes, human trafficking, police violence and more. Their work led to two Pulitzer Prizes last year. Thank you to all the Chicago journalists who shared their insights with Press Forward funders, including Windy City Media Network, LLC, Cicero Independiente, Growing Community Media NFP (parent company of Austin Weekly News) and Chicago News Weekly. And to our Chicago funders for helping us organize the events: The Chicago Community Trust, MacArthur Foundation and The Joyce Foundation. Learn more about Press Forward Chicagos’ grantees: https://bit.ly/3TpTOmu
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Congrats to the journalists, funders and the American Journalism Project working to bring more local news to Los Angeles!
Today, we are announcing the L.A. Local News Initiative, a new effort that will operate and support local newsrooms in Los Angeles to provide coverage at neighborhood, regional, and state levels — all in service of L.A. communities. This launch represents a growing movement of people across the country who recognize the important role of strong local news in our communities. We’re joined in this effort by a large coalition of nearly 2 dozen philanthropists, and almost as many media organizations — the initiative is launching with $15 million, and plans to keep raising money for this effort. We’re eager to see this work come to life in the months to come.
Media leaders and philanthropists join forces to revitalize local news in Los Angeles - American Journalism Project
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Congrats to our newest local chapter - Press Forward Charlotte! #PressForward
🆕Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of Press Forward Charlotte—a new local chapter under the umbrella of the NC Local News Lab Fund and Press Forward North Carolina. Press Forward Charlotte is a platform to fuel investment in Charlotte’s news and information ecosystem and spur collaboration among local funders. The launch is made possible by a transformational $2 million investment from Knight Foundation into the Fund, as well as new funding commitments from several local Charlotte funders. The launch of Press Forward Charlotte marks the growing commitment of Charlotte’s philanthropic community to supporting local journalism and community organizations. These news and community organizations help everyone in Charlotte and across North Carolina make decisions, connect with their communities, and participate in our democracy. Read the press release to learn more: https://lnkd.in/eh5ZvmJB Press Forward Knight Foundation United Way of Greater Charlotte Wells Fargo The Gambrell Foundation
North Carolina Local News Lab Fund announces Press Forward Charlotte — North Carolina Local News Lab Fund
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