Thinking of starting a local digital news site? Do it, but be aware of the pitfalls. Funding and training are plentiful and displaced journalists are eager to recommit to a community news mission, but the picture is not all sunny. May 24, 2021 Rick Edmonds
The coronavirus has taken a disproportionate toll on Black and Hispanic Americans and it’s only getting worse Poynter will dive deep on local coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on race and poverty. July 9, 2020 Tim Nickens
After a pandemic pause, this alt-weekly started publishing in print again DigBoston stopped publishing for the first time in March. It started again last week. June 25, 2020 Kristen Hare
How 13 local news publishers have responded to the Black Lives Matter demonstrations Here's what local independent publishers are doing in their communities June 19, 2020 Anika Anand
A newsroom launches in Oakland today, months after it actually got going The Oaklandside is a nonprofit newsroom that’s already covered the pandemic and protests June 16, 2020 Kristen Hare
What to do if you’re pepper-sprayed Lessons from a former Marine security guard who's now a journalist June 5, 2020 Sara Sneath
Why the Tulsa World is reminding its community of an awful, unspoken past 99 years ago, a white mob murdered their black neighbors and destroyed a thriving neighborhood in the Tulsa Race Massacre June 4, 2020 Kristen Hare
The pandemic led to newsroom furloughs. Then protests started. Are reporters coming back? We asked. Some answered. Here’s what we found out. June 3, 2020 Kristen Hare
How 18 newsrooms captured one pandemic day in Minnesota The project is a collection of snapshots of Minnesotans “and how they are muddling through the unknown.” May 29, 2020 Kristen Hare
What work are you excited about right now? Share your latest local news projects with us. May 14, 2020 Kristen Hare
One of my friends, a journalist who loved his job, is newly homeless. If anyone needs an editor to fearlessly run a local newsroom, give Rich Jackson a call. Your next editor just might be living in a Motel 6 in Indiana. May 7, 2020 Dan Parks
This year’s Pulitzers are a reminder why local news matters all the time, not just in a crisis Local journalism uncovers wrong doing while the rest of us are living our lives May 7, 2020 Kristen Hare
When the librarian who started a local newspaper died, the community kept it alive The coronavirus has caused big changes, but Weare in the World is still covering Weare, New Hampshire April 30, 2020 Kristen Hare
Report for America is sending 225 journalists into local newsrooms around the country ‘It felt like the crisis in local news has just gotten worse, and this is why we’re here’ April 23, 2020 Kristen Hare
This project is paying out-of-work journalists to keep covering Oklahoma ‘We need journalists more than ever to tell the story about this pandemic.’ April 22, 2020 Kristen Hare
