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- 5 Pieces of Good News About the News (Ben Smith | The New York Times)
- WCF News and Information Fund commits $1.1 million to The Wichita Beacon (Wichita Community Foundation)
- The Beacon plans for regional growth in 2021 (News Release | The Beacon)
- The Kansas City Beacon is expanding to a second city, Wichita, with nearly $4M raised (Nieman Lab)
- American Journalism Project Announces New Nonprofit Newsroom Grantees, New Funding Partners (American Journalism Project)
- Covering the coronavirus is like covering a natural disaster, but ‘everyone is going through it’ (Poynter)
- How 13 local news publishers have responded to the Black Lives Matter demonstrations (Poynter)
- The News and Information Fund at WCF invests $100,000 in development of a regional nonprofit network (Wichita Community Foundation)
- New Kansas City Newsroom on the Runway: ‘Start-ups Tend to Help Each Other’ (Northwestern | Medill Local News Initiative)
- Can nonprofit news fill the local journalism void in Kansas? (KLC Journal)
- Civic-focused news operation The Beacon establishes itself quickly in Kansas City (Local Media Association)
- Facebook group inspires informational resources in The Beacon’s newly launched COVID-19 help desk (Local Media Association)
- Journalist Launches The Beacon, a New Nonprofit Startup in Kansas City (Editor & Publisher)
- Local journalism helps tell the full story (The New York Times)
- Supporting 34 local news projects across North America (Google News Initiative)
- Meet the winners of the 2020 LION Awards (Local Independent Online News Publishers)
- Announcing the first round of grantees for the Trusted Elections Network Fund (American Press Institute)
- T-Squared: Welcoming our first-ever RevLab cohort (The Texas Tribune)
- 400 Local Newsrooms Receive Grants to Support Coronavirus Work (Facebook Journalism Project)
- Newspack launches first U.S. site; 34 more pilots selected (Newspack)
- Meet the 2020 LION Awards Finalists (Local Independent Online News Publishers)
- Report for America will place 250 journalists into 163 newsrooms in 46 states plus Puerto Rico and D.C. (Report for America)
- Digital Start-ups: Great Local News Hope or Disappointment? (Northwestern | Medill Local News Initiative)
- KC coders developing government accountability tool for newsrooms, public (Startland News)
- ONA announces cohort for the 2020 Women’s Leadership Accelerator (Online News Association)
- Beacons of hope emerging in Kansas journalism (KLC Journal)