ProPublica Selects Three Newsroom Partners for the Local Reporting Network
ProPublica has selected three partner newsrooms to work with its Local Reporting Network over the next three years. Each of the participating local media partners — Arizona Luminaria, Invisible Institute and the New York Amsterdam News — will dedicate a reporter for a three-year term to focus solely on investigative reporting, in collaboration with ProPublica’s editors and specialized teams. This project is made possible by a grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
“Over the last six years, the Local Reporting Network has delivered critical reporting to communities across the country and prompted real-life changes,” ProPublica Assistant Managing Editor Sarah Blustain said. “With the support from the Knight Foundation, we’re excited to be able to support more sustained partnerships with these three newsrooms, all of which have a demonstrated track record of investigative reporting. We’re thrilled to get started.”
New York Amsterdam News
For more than a century, the New York Amsterdam News has been committed to racial justice journalism and has reported on the fight for equality during the Jim Crow era, the events of the Civil Rights Movement, the Montgomery bus boycott and the Freedom Riders, among other stories.
In 2022, the Amsterdam News, headed by Publisher Elinor R. Tatum and under the leadership of Executive and Investigative Editor Damaso Reyes, founded Blacklight, the first investigative unit at a Black newspaper, to provide opportunities for journalists of color to pursue investigative projects. Among their projects is the groundbreaking “Beyond the Barrel of the Gun” initiative, which focuses on the root causes of, impact of and solutions to gun violence in Black and Brown communities. Blacklight’s reporting has won numerous awards including the New York Association of Black Journalists 2023 Ed Bradley Award for investigative journalism for its story on the impact of COVID-19 on families of color, a 2023 Solutions Journalism Award for its reporting on the impact of climate-change-fueled heat on gun violence, and a 2024 Deadline Club Award for digital video reporting for its first documentary film, “Be-Loved,” which highlights the story of a Harlem-based credible messenger working to reduce gun violence.
About the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
The foundation supports democracy by funding free expression and journalism, arts and culture in community; research in areas of media and democracy; and in the success of American cities and towns where the Knight brothers once had newspapers. Learn more at kf.org and follow @knightfdn on social media.
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