Welcome to the Listening Post Collective

When we launched the Civic Information Index a year ago, we knew we had created a tool that could help shift the conversation around journalism from saving it to building a better, more community-centered version of it. Our goal in year one was to get the Index onto people’s screens, see how they use it, and create some case studies based on that usage that could help others benefit from this resource. As we look ahead to Index 2.0, we’re sharing a few high-level takeaways from 1.0.

Today, Press Forward Minnesota announced $1 million in grants to five local news partnerships to strengthen collaboration between local newsrooms and community-based organizations across the state. Read more about how the Civic Information Index informed that grant selection process by reshaping how funders frame civic confidence.

Dr. Paulette Brown-Hinds, local publisher, community leader, and social justice advocate, shares how she’s leveraged some of the insights and recommendations from our mapping work to build a vision for a representational and accessible news and information ecosystem in the Inland Empire.

As a celebration and call to action, we have compiled a list of partners and grantees in our Collective who are currently accepting donations through their websites.

The NYC-based newsroom sat down with us to share how the Civic Information Index is helping them invest in parts of the country that need high-quality immigrant media the most.