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We’ve been just bursting at the seams to keep this news quiet for a few weeks now.
So proud of this incredible team @Report4America @GroundTruth and the work they’re doing to fight the good fight for local news everywhere. https://twitter.com/macfound/status/1285228691677749249
So proud of this incredible team @Report4America @GroundTruth and the work they’re doing to fight the good fight for local news everywhere. https://twitter.com/macfound/status/1285228691677749249
I grew up in a news desert. I didn’t have a term for it then, but I watched over the years as our local paper in a farming community went from 20-30 pages of community news to a ghost of a paper today (full of distant wire stories and comics.
In my hometown, my family can’t get reliable, in-depth information about COVID cases or where to get tested, how climate change and bad markets are impacting local farmers, or who’s running for public office.
In that void, misinformation runs wild. Without anyone to set the record straight (or to make a record at all), that community relies on social media or regional media who often get it wrong or don’t cover them at all.
This is an incredible opportunity and we are so grateful to @Macfound for recognizing @report4america as a transformative solution for this challenge - one that impacts all of us.
We wouldn’t be here without the incredible philanthropic partners who seeded this journey: @GoogleNewsInit @lenfestinst @DRKFoundation @HSFdn @inasmuch @FordFoundation @LORfoundation @Annenberg_FDN
Enormous thanks to our leadership partners @JenniferPreston & @kbmiami @knightfdn, @dorrine @Facebook, the Ziff family and @mediajordan @RWJF, @PackardFdn, @craignewmark, @TowFdn,
@aecf, the Kimelman family, the Newhouse family and Select Equity.
@aecf, the Kimelman family, the Newhouse family and Select Equity.
And to our newest partners who are helping us scale: @JoyceFdn, @bbabbo1 + Jon Logan, @ChanZuckerberg, the Buck Foundation, @leonlev, @NewmansOwnFdn.
Now, we’re rolling up our sleeves - we’ve got a lot of work to do in scaling @report4america, and we’re ALWAYS looking for new partners in this work, both philanthropic and newsrooms alike. Will you join us? Nothing short of our democracy is at stake.
