The Community Info Coop’s Just Transition program released its latest report on the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, analyzing the foundation’s commitment to DEI and reporting allegations of self-dealing and workplace harassment.
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The Community Info Coop provides seed to launch Stories Invincible, a restorative narrative project in Camden led by the Center for Cooperative Media with support from Movement Alliance Project, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, and New Jersey Local News Lab.
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Learn about how the Bloomfield Info Project is pioneering reparative models of local news and journalism.
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The Community Info Coop launches a consensus-based collaboration with community media publishers in New Jersey in partnership with Free Press and the New Jersey Local News Lab.
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The Bloomfield Information Project is an extension of the Info Districts Project and seeks to explore practical pathways to establishing community-run, publicly funded local news organizations. Learn about how we’re restoring a news desert and building movement for local news in New Jersey.
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Community Info Coop founder Simon Galperin selected for 2022 John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University.
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Community Info Coop founder Simon Galperin was the featured guest on the It’s All Journalism Podcast discussing info districts as a model for funding public service local news and information.
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Community Info Coop founder Simon Galperin joins journalist and organizer Alicia Bell to identify ways to invest a one billion media justice fund in a call for media reparations in Nieman Lab.
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Learn how journalists in Minneapolis imagined more inclusive membership models for news organizations.
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A survey by Data for Progress showed that voters were more supportive of establishing info districts than expanding national public funding for local journalism or providing emergency relief for local news amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Writing for Nieman Lab, Joshua Benton reviews the Community Info Coop’s legal analysis for developing local information districts in New Jersey.
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Writing for the Knight Foundation, Mark Glaser calls info districts a business model to watch, citing the need for municipal or state funding funding of local news and information.
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Learn how dozens of journalists at SRCCON:LEAD in Philadelphia in 2019 imagined how to make their newsrooms more democratic.
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Longmont, Colorado is considering creating an info district through the library and the Colorado Media Project is leading a public policy study to understand the role public funding could play in sustaining local public-interest journalism.
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An independent info district campaign launched in Longmont, Colorado led local stakeholders to closely consider how a new, publicly funded local news organization would be structured to avoid the pitfalls of government subsidy.
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The Community Info Coop was awarded a fellowship at the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri to advance the Info Districts Project.
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The 2019 International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy featured a panel led by the Community Info Coop facilitating a conversation between public media innovators from Canada, the U.S., and the U.K.
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Learn how dozens of journalists gathered in Philadelphia in 2019 imagined making their workplaces more democratic.
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Writing for Nieman Lab, Christine Schmidt outlines the case for info districts and how the Info Districts Project got its start.
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