Press Forward Will Award More Than $500 Million to Revitalize Local News

A coalition of 22 donors will infuse more than half a billion dollars over the next five years into Press Forward, a national initiative to strengthen communities and democracy by supporting local news and information. Press Forward will enhance local journalism at an unprecedented level to re-center local news as a force for community cohesion; support new models and solutions that are ready to scale; and close longstanding inequities in journalism coverage and practice. Press Forward seeks to reverse the dramatic decline in local news that has coincided with an increasingly divided America and weakening trust in institutions.