Updates
A parting note from Lizzy Hazeltine, Founding Director, about what it takes to build something that matters.
The new initiative, developed by local public media station leaders, will fundamentally shift how public media in North Carolina works together.
Cierra Brown Hinton is a nationally recognized strategist, fundraiser, and movement infrastructure builder working at the intersection of media, philanthropy, and social change.
New research makes sense of our information ocean — and reinforces an ecosystem approach to funding news and information.
Local news and community organizations are vital support networks, providing consistent, reliable, and trustworthy information — before, during, and beyond the storm.
Reflections from our partners underscore what we’re celebrating most: a local news and information ecosystem rooted in trust, collaboration, and service of community needs.
Local news funding coalitions work when we build them around people and places in common and pace ourselves for the timelines of how change happens.
In a year marked by natural disasters, federal funding cuts, and the need to navigate uncertainty, these investments reinforce a strong local news and information ecosystem that serves communities across North Carolina.
Local news and information plays an essential role in the hurricane response and ongoing recovery. Through proactive, ongoing, and flexible funding, funders can support communities’ ability to rebuild.
Refugee Community Partnerships builds trust with refugee and migrant communities and connects them with critical resources to help them navigate everyday life.
This funding includes investments in public media organizations, field-strengthening capacity building, and multi-year support for local outlets and community organizations.
Funding local news and information is essential at every stage of an emergency, but organizations are far better prepared to handle disasters when they are well-funded before crises ever happen.
Now Hiring: Associate Director of Funder Partnerships at the North Carolina Local News Lab Fund
Building a stronger news and information ecosystem takes time, but it has never been more important.
The latest round of funding includes expanded support for news and community organizations in Western NC, along with a statewide network that works to ensure everyone can find, trust, and use the information they need to thrive.
You Can Vote ensures people have the most up-to-date voting information delivered by people they trust — making their work a key component of North Carolina’s news and information ecosystem.
Regularly updated trusted news and community updates about Hurricane Helene in Western NC, along with disaster relief and recovery efforts you can support today.
The new Press Forward local chapter will fuel funder collaboration and investments in news and information in Charlotte.
The North Carolina Local News Lab Fund renews support of a wide range of trusted messengers who connect their communities with the information they need to thrive.
The North Carolina Local News Lab Fund renews support of a wide range of trusted messengers who connect their communities with the information they need to thrive.
Three learnings from place-based ecosystem funding.
The NC News Lab Fund takes lead role in Press Forward Local North Carolina. Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust and Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation will co-chair Press Forward North Carolina under the leadership of the Fund.
JMPRO Community Media bridges the digital divide with a multi-channel distribution strategy tailored to Western NC’s immigrant communities.
Charlotte public radio station WFAE helps people find, trust, and use information about public health.
1) Expand your vision of who informs communities, 2) Measure what really matters.
Code the Dream’s app UpState makes it easier for people to understand what’s happening in North Carolina’s General Assembly—access and sunshine that drive accountability.
News and information distribution is all around us, even when we don’t see it. By recognizing and funding these invisible but vital networks, we can begin to visualize our information landscape in a new way.