Info Districts is a public policy program that advances media policy to establish local news as a public utility. The Info Districts program enables the development of special service districts and other public media institutions that meet the local news needs of BIPOC and working-class people by supporting participatory, public service news models like The Jersey Bee.
Learn about how the Bloomfield Info Project is pioneering reparative models of local news and journalism.
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.
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.
