What We Do

We fund initiatives focused on high-quality news reporting and dissemination of accurate, timely, verifiable information for New Jersey communities. This includes investigative journalism, community-focused reporting, multilingual news operations, and projects that bring transparent, trustworthy information to underserved areas of the state.

Funded projects in this area help ensure that residents across New Jersey — regardless of where they live, what language they speak, or their socioeconomic status — have access to the civic information they need to participate fully in their communities.

We support organizations and projects that train students, professionals, and community members to produce news and civic information, enabling them to become community storytellers and newsroom reporters.

This includes university training programs, community media workshops, mentorship initiatives, and our first statewide paid internship program — all designed to build the next generation of journalists and ensure newsrooms reflect the diversity of the communities they serve.

We fund organizations that actively encourage and support civic engagement, with an emphasis on historically marginalized and/or underserved communities with limited or no access to news and information.

Projects in this area include community dialogue platforms, civic participation tools, voter information initiatives, and efforts to bridge the information gap in communities that have been historically excluded from mainstream media coverage.