2022-2023

Black Voice News

Black Voice News, a news site, focuses on advocacy, solutions-oriented and data-driven reporting. It has addressed issues like disparities in health and education, police violence, social justice and civil rights battles. BVN has chronicled some of the most important stories impacting the lives of Black Californians, and given voice to the community while expanding its scope of civic involvement.

El Paso Matters

El Paso Matters is a nonprofit, member-supported, nonpartisan digital media organization. It uses journalism to expand civic capacity in the region, informing and engaging with people in El Paso, Ciudad Juarez and neighboring communities to create solutions-driven conversations about the complex issues shaping the region.

KOSU

KOSU is a member-supported public radio network, and its broadcast signals cover two-thirds of Oklahoma with a heavy rural focus. This news organization, including a news site, delivers award-winning local news and NPR news. KOSU provides a place for civil discourse through in-depth reporting on agriculture, rural issues, Indigenous affairs, education and health care and conversation.

Ouray County Plaindealer

The Ouray County Plaindealer publishes a weekly paper and its news site and e-newsletter also provide vital, reliable information to this rural part of Colorado. Maintaining high standards for accuracy and fairness, its goal is to contribute to a vibrant, informed community by serving a narrow niche—primarily covering news in a county of 5,000. The publishers were recognized with the Colorado Society of Professional Journalists’ Keeper of the Flame Award in 2021 for their tenacious advocacy for the public’s right to know and hold government accountable.

The Lens

The Lens is a nonprofit, nonpartisan public-interest digital newsroom, dedicated to investigative and explanatory journalism. Its mission is to educate, engage and empower the people of New Orleans by providing the information and analysis necessary to advocate for more accountable and just governance. The Lens grew out of a citizen journalist’s drive to track demolitions after Hurricane Katrina.

Voice of OC

Voice of OC was established in 2009 to cover local civic news. A nonpartisan, nonprofit digital news organization, it produces fact-based news every day on the inner workings of local government and agencies. Voice of OC offers readers free coverage.

Spotlight PA

Spotlight PA launched in 2019 and is now the largest newsroom dedicated to covering the state government and statewide issues in Pennsylvania. Focusing on investigative reporting, Spotlight PA, a nonprofit, delivers public service journalism at no cost to 77 newsroom partners throughout the state—a network that reaches 35 million people per month. Its journalism is changing the status quo in Harrisburg, the state capital, and driving meaningful policy change across the fifth-largest state in the country.

Block Club Chicago

Block Club Chicago is a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization covering the city's diverse neighborhoods. In three years, it has gone from a scrappy startup to one of the most respected news organizations in Chicago, publishing more than a dozen stories a day online.

El Tecolote

El Tecolote, a nonprofit, is a free, bilingual news site and paper circulating 10,000 copies biweekly. It is the longest running Spanish/English paper in California. Its mission is to promote cultural arts, community media and civic engagement as a way of building healthy and empowered Latino communities.

KRBD Rainbird Community Radio

KRBD is a nonprofit community radio station and news site serving Ketchikan and surrounding communities. News is key to its programming and its success, and KRBD delivers relevant, reliable information for all the communities it serves. KRBD also provides emergency information, music and entertainment.