Our Mission
We equip local media to build trusted, resilient, people-first organizations capable of navigating change and strengthening civic life in their communities.
We strengthen the relationship between news organizations and their communities by fostering civic discourse, supporting press freedom and ensuring people have the trusted information they need to participate in civic life.
We help local news organizations build people-centered, adaptive and inclusive cultures that can navigate change and lead in an AI-supported future.
We develop actionable insights, tools and operational strategies that support sustainable, innovative and data-informed news organizations.
Featured Research
This report draws on a nationally representative survey of teens ages 13–17 and adults 18 and older, providing one of the most comprehensive, generationally comparative looks at how Americans navigate an increasingly complex news, information and media ecosystem.
As research continues to inform this slice of the news industry, we’ll continue learning, too. Who gets to be called a journalist in 2025 and beyond? What is the future of trustworthy information, especially considering the access to and trust for online content creators? How might journalism adapt to the rise, or co-opt the styles, of news influencers?
This guide features strategies tested and proven by local news organizations that participated in the Table Stakes Local News Transformation Program along the themes of product thinking, revenue, engaged journalism, collaboration and managing change.
The press will be much more effective in serving people and strengthening democracy if it learns from what researchers are learning. Among the examples and takeaways, you will find that news leaders and non-news experts alike value the opportunity to think differently about the challenges in front of them, about how local news can change and how research can ask different questions.
Special Editions & Series
How do we bridge that gap between the standard KPIs and those mushier signals of your work’s impact — how can you identify and quantify what’s changing in the lives and perceptions of the communities you serve?
We asked four summit participants to share more about the ways they are defining, measuring and acting on signals of impact.
Three frameworks for how journalists can engage with non-news experts and researchers to help solve a problem, rethink a beat or collaborate on an experiment
API Products & Programs
Helping journalists and media leaders transform their local news businesses to better serve diverse communities
Improving how newsrooms cover communities of color by assessing seven areas to reveal inequitable practices
