Content Partnerships

The Public Press will leverage associations with existing nonprofit and independent media and research institutions to build capacity for information gathering, analysis, packaging and dissemination. These groups include public broadcasters, independent community newspapers, civic-minded magazines and Web publishers, nonprofit civic organizations, scientific and social science research foundations, nonprofit journalism collaborations and consumer-protection organizations.

Developing and potential content partnerships:

• KALW-FM's Crosscurrents Radio (crosscurrentsradio.org)
• KQED-FM (kqed.org)
• Spot Reporting Project (spot.us)
• Newsdesk (newsdesk.org)
• New America Media (newamericamedia.org)
• Neighborhood Newswire (neighborhoodnewswire.net)
• The Potrero View (potreroview.net)
• Central City Extra (studycenter.org/test/cce/)
• Fora TV (fora.tv)
• Cal Express/California Media Collaborative (californiamedia.org)
• Center for Investigative Reporting (centerforinvestigativereporting.org)
• The Christian Science Monitor (csmonitor.com)
• Consumer Reports (consumerreports.org)
• National Public Radio (npr.org)
• Center for Public Integrity (centerforpublicintegrity.org)

In the weeks leading up to Election Day 2008, The Public Press joined with Newsdesk in a unique noncommercial news collaboration to fact-check the dizzying array of voter propositions on the San Francisco ballot. The project, which was co-published on Newsdesk.org and Public-Press.org, with segments broadcast on Crosscurrents Radio on KALW-FM, took to task the spinmeisters who flooded San Francisco neighborhoods with fliers containing truths, half-truths, and “truthiness.”

The series allowed us to begin identifying freelance writers, online producers and editors, and provided invaluable experience in working with content partners.

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