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The News-Gazette is among 205 small local media organizations – at least one in every state - chosen to receive a grant from a program created to strengthen local news coverage. The grant is through Press Forward, the national movement to strengthen communities by reinvigorating local news.
Press Forward via The Miami Foundation is making these grants as part of the Closing Local Coverage Gaps open call in the amount of $100,000 over two years. The general purpose of the Closing Local Coverage Gaps grants is to support organizations in providing original reporting in underserved communities. Grant applicants could be non-profit or for-profit organizations, in print, online or a combination of both. Applicants had to have an annual budget of under $1 million and have been in existence for at least one year.
Press Forward, a project of The Miami Foundation, is a national movement to strengthen our democracy by revitalizing local news and information. A coalition of funders is investing more than $500 million to strengthen local newsrooms, close longstanding gaps in journalism coverage, advance public policy that expands access to local news, and scale the infrastructure the sector needs to thrive.
The News-Gazette was one of 931 applicants in the call for grant proposals in the spring. Those were winnowed down to 400 finalists, and then from those, the final grant award winners were chosen. Other Virginia grantees were Charlottesville Tomorrow, Vinegar Hill Magazine, both in Charlottesville, The Recorder in Monterey, and the Henrico Citizen in the Richmond area.
To learn more about Press Forward, go to pressforward.news.
