A group of philanthropies announced plans yesterday to launch a non-profit newsroom that will provide coverage of Cleveland, kicking off an effort to help fill a void left by the shrinking of news organisations in Ohio.
The donors say theirs will be one of the largest local non-profit news start-ups in the country. The American Journalism Project, one of the funders, has launched three other non-profit newsroom start-ups and supported 26 others across the country.
The newsroom in Cleveland is expected to hire 25 staffers and will launch by mid-2022.
The donors said it will produce “original, in-depth, non-partisan reporting” that will be free to access digitally and through various content partnerships. The newsroom will raise revenue from those partnerships, subscriptions, events and other sources, but philanthropy will continue to play a prominent role in the coming years.