2025-2026

City Bureau

City Bureau is a Pulitzer Prize-winning sustained impact newsroom and innovation lab reimagining local journalism, civic media, and participatory democracy. As a training newsroom it is core to our mission to equip aspiring and early career journalists with the tools and collaborative opportunities to learn from Chicago journalists as they report on under-represented communities on Chicago's South and West sides.

Lookout Eugene-Springfield

Lookout Eugene-Springfield launches in early 2025, the second community news site of Lookout Local. Lookout Eugene-Springfield is modeled on the highly successful, Pulitzer Prize-winning Lookout Santa Cruz site. When launched -- with about 15 in the newsroom and 20 overall --it will serve as the largest and best newsroom in Oregon's second-largest metro area. Lookout doesn't complain about hedge fund ownership; we replace it with high-quality, trustworthy, non-partisan news and information broadly covered all aspects of diverse communities. We're looking for skilled, experienced professionals eager and able to build the next generation of local news, working out of our in-person, open-to-the-community downtown office.

Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service

The Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service (NNS) is a community-centric nonprofit newsroom. Founded in March 2011, NNS provides professional reporting to Black and Latinx residents who have been ignored, underserved or inaccurately portrayed in other media outlets.

MinnPost

MinnPost is an independent, nonprofit newsroom producing in-depth reporting on Minnesota's most consequential civic and cultural affairs. We have no political or commercial interest. Our only agenda is to be a trusted guide. We expose problems, highlight solutions and inspire informed action. Our areas of greatest expertise include city and state politics, Minnesota's congressional delegation in Washington, health, the environment and arts & culture.

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 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.

Fort Worth Report

Fort Worth Report, a nonprofit digital newsroom, was launched in April 2021 to provide original reporting on local government, schools, economic development, health care and other news in Tarrant County, home to Fort Worth. By providing free access to nonpartisan journalism about issues that affect the daily lives of residents, this news organization’s mission is to engage, educate and empower readers.

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.

Borderless Magazine

Borderless Magazine is a nonprofit news outlet that is reimagining immigration reporting. Borderless covers labor and justice, among other issues, for Midwestern immigrant communities.

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.