Report for America

Who can apply?

Newsrooms looking for funding help and other types of partnership

Requirements:

• Any news organization that is committed to providing objective, civically important local journalism.  That could include public radio and TV stations, newspapers, digital sites, commercial radio and TV stations, wire services, or journalism schools providing direct journalism. The organization can be nonprofit or commercial.
• These are the main criteria:
  • Is there an important need? (Are there under-covered topics, communities or geographic areas?)
  • What is the beat you’ll create to deploy RFA corps members to help fill your news gap?
  • Can you provide the local match? (see below)
  • Do you provide good editing and mentoring?
• Other factors include having the following:
  • A good plan for assessing success
  • A way to distribute the content for maximum impact

What do you get?

Resources, tools, and help increasing fundraising.