Towns & Cities

Mirror Indy

Mirror Indy is the first nonprofit newsroom of Free Press Indiana, launched in December 2023, with coverage focused on community, accountability, service, and arts and culture. Our neighborhood-based reporting aims to elevate stories that too often go untold and empower residents with the local news and information they need to shape our city for the better. Mirror Indy’s readers consume our content in daily email newsletters, website, social media channels and a free texting service.

Montana Free Press

Montana Free Press is a 501(c)3 nonprofit, nonpartisan, public-powered news organization dedicated to reaching and serving the information needs of all Montanans by producing in-depth news, information, and analysis. MTFP's mission is to provide Montanans access to high-quality journalism that creates positive change and helps move society toward justice and equity.

Signal Cleveland

Signal Cleveland is the inaugural newsroom in the Signal Ohio network of independent, community-led, nonprofit newsrooms. We’re on a mission to ensure all residents of Greater Cleveland have the local news and information they need and want. At the heart of what we do are Cleveland Documenters, a group of about 950 Greater Cleveland residents who represent almost every ZIP code in the county. We train and pay them to cover public meetings. Together, we are a primary source of information for residents who may not otherwise have access to trusted local journalism.

The Current

The Current GA is an independent, nonprofit news site serving Coastal Georgia. We aim to fill knowledge gaps through in-depth, explanatory and investigative journalism. We work to reach readers from every corner of the area so they can make informed decisions and hold leaders accountable for policy that will determine the future for the region.

The Waco Bridge

The Waco Bridge is an editorially independent, nonprofit newsroom dedicated to empowering Wacoans with high-quality local news and information that connects communities and fosters public engagement. Supported by The Texas Tribune, the Bridge’s goal is to deliver accessible, free news that serves people’s needs.

Verite News

Verite News, a Black-led, nonprofit newsroom, was founded in 2022 by two veterans of the Times-Picayune, Terry Baquet and David Francis. Verite has a two-fold mission: to use the power of journalism to expose and dismantle inequities that affect vulnerable populations and to educate the next generation of journalists through our news fellowship program.

Henrico Citizen

Through fair, tenacious, thorough and clear nonpartisan journalism across five digital daily weekday platforms, the independent, 23-year-old Henrico Citizen helps connect the Metro Richmond locality of Henrico County, Virginia and the 340,000 citizens who call it home. The Citizen has earned more than 260 awards for its coverage, and in 2020 successfully transitioned from a print publication to a fully digital one, nearly quadrupling its readership in the process.

Marietta Daily Journal

The Marietta Daily Journal reports the news aggressively, but with candor, discretion and fairness. MDJ serves Cobb County by providing a quality local newspaper and website comprehensive enough to be the only media our readers need while exclusive enough to be essential, even to readers who choose additional news sources. The first Marietta Journal was printed in 1866 on a hand press left behind by Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman’s army after the city was burned. The publisher wrote that he “summoned courage” to start the paper “when Marietta was a heap of ashes and a charred mass of ruins.”

Mississippi Free Press

The mission of the Mississippi Free Press, a nonprofit statewide newsroom, is to publish deep public-interest reporting into causes of and solutions to the social, political, and systemic challenges facing all Mississippians and their communities. We interrogate and report the systems that cause inequities on the road to lasting solutions through a mixture of narrative storytelling, data reporting, historic context and community dialogue through solution circles in under-reported communities to discover report causes and roots of inequities, followed by solutions journalism.

Spotlight Delaware

Spotlight Delaware is a collaborative, community-powered newsroom dedicated to informing and empowering the public to be a part of policy-making decisions in the First State. We specifically focus on government accountability, public education and land use, with an emphasis on providing a voice to marginalized and underrepresented communities in Delaware.