
Public Media Funding Explained: Where the Money Comes From
Member dues, grants and underwriting each carry different strings. Here is how the streams fit together, and what each one costs a newsroom in independence.

Member dues, grants and underwriting each carry different strings. Here is how the streams fit together, and what each one costs a newsroom in independence.

A neighborhood plot grows vegetables, yes. It also grows the connections that make a community easier to cover, easier to organize, and harder to ignore.

Plan and run community listening sessions that turn resident input into local news coverage. A step-by-step guide for small newsrooms.

Prototyping, patents and first customers, in the order that actually works for non-technical creators.

Shared workshops work in small towns for a plain reason: they split the cost of tools nobody can buy alone.

The mechanism behind civic hubs that move a resident's suggestion from a sticky note to a working pilot — and where the process usually stalls.