Our Mission
Our broad-based organization brings together the largest alliance of local publishers, labor unions, civic organizations and newsrooms representing both rural and urban communities. Together, these 50 organizations represent over 3,000 newsrooms and 15,000 journalists working together to revive local news. The coalition also includes nonprofit and philanthropic organizations pushing to create a better, more inclusive local news system than has ever existed before.
We believe that while public policy is not the only piece of the puzzle, it can and must play a crucial role. Such policies should be crafted to be First Amendment–friendly and designed with a clear focus on safeguarding editorial independence, ensuring the local news landscape can provide communities with the robust, reliable information they need to stay informed and engaged.
Policy effort to help local news Should be:
- Content-neutral, nonpartisan, and ensure editorial independence.
- Future-friendly, potentially helping both existing local players and innovators.
- Platform-neutral.
- Helping local news organizations develop sustainable models.
- Especially help community grounded media including diverse, nonprofit and family-owned news organizations.
- Resulting in communities have more local reporters.
The Rebuild Local News Coalition
- National Newspaper Association
- The NewsGuild-CWA
- Institute for Nonprofit News
- National Newspaper Publishers Association
- Local Independent Online News
- Society for Professional Journalists
- Public Media Company
- National Association of Hispanic Publications
- Association of Alternative Newsmedia
- Center for Cooperative Media
- Institute for Rural Journalism
- National Trust for Local News
- American Journalism Project
- Solutions Journalism Network
- Local Media Consortium
- Report for America / The GroundTruth Project
- Public Knowledge
- PEN America
- Trusting News
- Media and Democracy Project
- Military Veterans in Journalism
- The Lenfest Institute for Journalism
- Poynter
- National Federation of Community Broadcasters
- Mid-Atlantic Community Papers Association
- Wisconsin Newspaper Association
- Kansas Press Association
- Arizona Media Association
- Maryland-Delaware-DC Press Association
- Mississippi Press Association
- West Virginia Press Association
- Colorado Press Association
- Maine Press Association
- Wyoming Press Association
- Alaska News Coalition
- Chalkbeat
- Black Voice News
- Afro-American Newspapers
- Ohio Center for Journalism
- Tucson Sentinel
- The Examiner News
- Key Biscayne Independent
- West View Media
- Sierra Nevada Ally
- Alameda Post
- Wrangell Sentinel
- Greensboro Latino
- TAPinto
- My Neighborhood News Network
- The JOLT News