MacArthur Foundation

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 Americ