$660,000 to support a 50-member network will go to Solutions Journalism Network and Report for America for one year from a trio of place-based foundations.
In the many questions of the future of local news, philanthropy — and more recently, the support of locally-grown philanthropists and funders — is stepping up as a bigger potential answer.
But media philanthropy, like most everything else about media, is still largely centered on the coasts and in major metropolitan area — even though most ev