News and updates

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.

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.

Learn about how the Bloomfield Info Project is pioneering reparative models of local news and journalism.

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.

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.

Community Info Coop founder Simon Galperin selected for 2022 John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University.

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.

In 2020, the Community Info Coop held a number of on-background one-on-one and group conversations about the Knight Foundation, asking journalism and civic leaders to share their experiences with the organization and their vision for its evolution. Issues raised included the need for more accountability reporting on the Knight Foundation, specifically reviewing its affiliation with far-right extremists and white supremacy. Here, we share our findings on that subject.

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.

We developed this technology-assisted workflow to allow local journalists to reduce information inequality and respond to a community’s need for more effectively curated local news and civic information.

The Bloomfield Information Project is our public service journalism lab dedicated to making our community more informed, engaged, and resilient. From workflow innovations to new prospects for revenue in local news, here's what we've been up to in 2020.

Learn how journalists in Minneapolis imagined more inclusive membership models for news organizations.

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.

Writing for Nieman Lab, Joshua Benton reviews the Community Info Coop’s legal analysis for developing local information districts in New Jersey.

The Community Info Coop commissioned a legal analysis of New Jersey’s special district laws to understand how they might be used to establish info districts. Here’s what we found.

The co-founder of Énois, a free Brazilian youth journalism school, writes that info districts could be used to make the mutual aid networks that have emerged in response to COVID-19 permanent in an announcement that the Community Info Coop’s “How to Launch an Info District” report is now available in Portuguese.

We’re expanding the Info Districts Project with the launch of our first info district campaign in Bloomfield, N.J. thanks to support from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation and the Reynolds Journalism Institute.

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.

Learn how dozens of journalists at SRCCON:LEAD in Philadelphia in 2019 imagined how to make their newsrooms more democratic.

Three years ago we came up with the idea for info districts as a way to fund local news and information to promote civic engagement. Today, there’s even more evidence that local news needs reinvention. There’s also a growing momentum.