Local journalism is a critical part of the civic infrastructure holding up democracy. Just like you want to make sure your community has solid roads and water pipes, we need to make sure our local news information system is strong and sustainable.
The local news partners in the Granite State News Collaborative have set aside generations of deeply ingrained competition to do our part to keep that infrastructure strong. We may all sit in different newsrooms but we share a common belief: our communities will not survive and thrive without trusted information. That is our mission; our service to our communities.
In just five years, collectively we’ve gotten more than 7,000 shared stories–information you may not have gotten otherwise– out to every corner of the state. We’ve learned how to pull together to co-report on elections, share information and tips with each other and even share reporters to help fill news deserts.
We’ve seen the good those efforts have done in our communities and want to make sure that our communities always have this resource available to them.
That is why we are ready to take the next step: creating the New Hampshire Community News Fund.
The fund aims to strengthen local journalism by increasing the number of reporters across the state, supporting The Collaborative’s operations, and adding valuable editorial resources to the local news ecosystem. It also focuses on promoting sustainability and innovation in newsrooms while fostering greater community understanding, adaptability, and media literacy.
In short, we want to make sure you have more information you can trust, not less, well into the future.
This effort is not about saving individual outlets. It is about shoring up our civic infrastructure to grow local news and the connections local news fosters in our communities.
Now is the time for action.
Local news is not dead. We are here. And as a team, and with you as partners, we are willing to work and scrap to ensure that we stay here. For you.
As we said, that is our mission; our service to our communities.
If you would like to be a part of our coalition, reach out, share this message with the interested and willing and/or make a tax deductible donation to our pilot collective fundraising effort. You will have the option of donating to individual news outlets, the NH Community News Fund or both! Now through the end of the year, individual donations up to $1,000 and total donations of $15,000 will be matched through Newsmatch, a national fundraising campaign.
Granite State News Collaborative is a registered 501 c3 nonprofit. If you would like to send a donation by mail make checks payable to Granite State News Collaborative.
If you would like your donation to go to a specific outlet, please note that in the memo.
Checks may be mailed to: GSNC, PO Box 87, Keene, NH, 03431
For more information contact Melanie Plenda, GSNC Executive Director, melanie.plenda@collaborativenh.org.
Our partners include: 603 Diversity Magazine, The Berlin Sun, Business NH Magazine, The Business Journal of Greater Keene, Brattleboro and Peterborough, The Concord Monitor, The Conway Daily Sun, The Eagle Times, The Eagle-Tribune, The Keene Sentinel, The Laconia Daily Sun, Manchester Ink Link, The Marlin Fitzwater Center at Franklin Pierce University, The Nashua Telegraph, NH Bar News, NH Business Review, New Hampshire PBS, NH Public Radio, The Monadnock Ledger-Transcript, Seacoast Media Group and The Valley News.