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This three-year grant supports Free Press' collaboration with Media Mobilizing Project and Media, Inequality, Change Center to organize journalists, newsrooms and community media allies to bring them into closer relationships with residents who want to take an active role in shaping local news. Free Press will also produce guides and workshops for constituents, support community-newsroom collaboration, and develop strategies to disincentivize the dominant “if it bleeds, it leads” newsroom mentality.
This three-year grant will support Chalkbeat's efforts to merge with the Philadelphia Public School Notebook, a 25-year-old media organization founded by parents and concerned citizens, and create Chalkbeat Philadelphia, a new education news nonprofit.
This one-year planning grant will allow WLVT to explore launching a channel that is robust, local and community-centered, through implementing a survey and analysis of content creators in the region (primarily video content), including the barriers that keep media makers from creating longer form content.
This three-year grant supports Free Press' collaboration with Media Mobilizing Project and Media, Inequality, Change Center to organize journalists, newsrooms and community media allies to bring them into closer relationships with residents who want to take an active role in shaping local news. Free Press will also produce guides and workshops for constituents, support community-newsroom collaboration, and develop strategies to disincentivize the dominant “if it bleeds, it leads” newsroom mentality.
Nominated to receive a general operating grant.
This two-year grant will underwrite the professional digitalization, centralization and cataloging of FPA's archived stories, allowing them to utilize archived material to expand their programming, demonstrate the archive's value to people across the region and beyond.
Providing matching dollars to eight local newsrooms—NextCity, Hidden City Philadelphia, Spotlight PA, Chalkbeat Philadelphia, WHYY News, WITF News—in support of this year-end giving campaign.
Nominated to receive a general operating grant.
Nominated to receive a general operating grant.
Nominated to receive a general operating grant.