The Devil Strip is an independent community news organization that’s served the greater Akron, Ohio area for almost five years. This fall, we’ll become a community-owned local news cooperative to give residents a say in how our organization runs. This is how we’re aligning the incentives of our business and operational structure with the values
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Devil Strip
The Devil Strip is an independent community news organization that’s served the greater Akron, Ohio area for almost five years. This fall, we’ll become a community-owned local news cooperative to give residents a say in how our organization runs. This is how we’re aligning the incentives of our business and operational structure with the values
Associated Press
The Associated Press is a global news agency that began 172 years ago as a cooperative of five New York City newspapers. With 263 locations in more than 100 countries, AP provides journalism to roughly 15,000 media outlets around the world. AP sets standards for ethics and excellence, and has won 52 Pulitzer Prizes, including
WYSO Public Radio
Our role, beyond serving as the NPR affiliate for our region, is to share voices that are often excluded or marginalized in other outlets. To cite a few examples, we share the stories of families impacted by the opioid crisis; interviews with elderly African-American residents of Dayton’s west side who have chosen to age in
WKSU
WKSU was founded in 1950 as a student-run station. Today it has the largest footprint of any radio station in the state of Ohio – we cover more than 22 counties, the northeast quadrant of the state. The stawtion is Kent State University’s award-winning National Public Radio (NPR) news, classical, and folk music public radio
WEWS
WEWS-TV (News 5) is the ABC affiliate in Cleveland covering Northeast Ohio and broadcasting to approximately three million people every day. Our brand is “5 On Your Side,” and we strive to report on societal ills every day in our newscasts and look to find solutions. We are an award-winning Investigative Journalism news organization covering
WCPO
WCPO is an innovative and forward-looking news organization covering 25 counties across three states centered around Cincinnati. WCPO has a history of enterprise journalism and innovation that stems from the organization’s early days as a TV station on to 2014 when the E.W. Scripps Company launched an extensive digital newsroom within the TV station and
Plain Dealer
The Plain Dealer is Ohio’s largest and Cleveland’s only daily newspaper. We also reach a huge audience through our affiliate, cleveland.com, which is the largest news Web site in the state. Our primary audience lies in Cleveland and Cuyahoga County, but we serve the entire northeast Ohio area. An important part of our mission is
Mahoning Matters
Mahoning Matters is a local digital news startup serving Mahoning County, Ohio that is starting publication in early October 2019. We are the first site of The Compass Experiment, a partnership between Google and McClatchy to experiment with sustainable revenue models for local news.
Columbus Dispatch
The Dispatch’s mission is to inform and engage Ohioans on issues important to helping them navigate daily life, and to hold public officials and business leaders accountable to the public. We emphasis enterprise and watchdog reporting. We take deep dives on important topics—opioids, suicide, fracking, income inequality, hazing, prescription-drug pricing, and ineffective and dangerous handling