We help local, independent news outlets thrive.
We meet news organizations where they are and offer tailored, hands-on support.
Local market conditions, community priorities, newsroom capacity, and team focus combine to make day-to-day operations and longer-term strategic priorities unique for every newsroom. Even when the goal for sustainable operations is the same, the path is different. Our approach is hands-on: We’ll learn about your priorities, strengths and goals and work with you to remove obstacles, push projects forward, and spark innovation.
We’re creating communities of support and peer learning.
The Workbench, a community of practice focused on peer learning and business development will launch this Spring. By connecting outlets and media professionals across New England, we’re creating a community of sharing and problem solving that makes the entire field stronger.
We are training community journalists and building newsroom capacity.
Through Career Lab, we train community members to serve their towns as journalists, create jobs and open opportunities in local news. We are building newsroom capacity, expanding impact and easing management stress. Career Lab combined with The Workbench, our community of practice and our hands on consulting are an end-to-end solution to support resilient businesses and robust community reporting.
We use small, targeted grants to spark innovation.
We support independent outlets with targeted grants that ease burdens and push projects forward. And we are incubating local news outlets in news deserts, doing the legwork and offering start-up dollars and expertise to build new outlets where needed.
“For small publishers, it can feel like the role of the “journalism support organization” is to funnel money that might otherwise go directly to newsrooms towards well-compensated professionals who tell us what we should be doing with all the time and money we don’t have. Journalism New England is the first journalism support organization I have encountered that will actually roll up their sleeves and get to work alongside us”
