Press Forward Minnesota raises $6 million from local foundations
Major foundations in Minnesota have helped raise $6 million in support of Press Forward Minnesota to boost local journalism, the Star Tribune reports.
Since Press Forward Minnesota—a local chapter of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation’s national initiative Press Forward—launched in January, it has received funding from the McKnight Foundation in Minneapolis, the Bush Foundation and the Glen Nelson Center at American Public Media Group in St. Paul, as well as the Chicago-based MacArthur Foundation. The five-year, statewide movement aims to re-center local journalism as a force for community cohesion, civic participation, and government accountability, while focusing on racial equity. The initiative’s goal is to raise $10 million dollars to reinvest in Minnesota’s local news ecosystem.
“This will benefit the whole state,” Mukhtar Ibrahim, former Sahan Journal CEO, who is partnering with Press Forward Minnesota, told the Tribune. “We need to see journalism as essential [to fund] as much as public works....It affects the health of a society.”
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