As part of a new initiative to pump up local news in Indiana, the national Black news organization CapitalBNews establishes a local newsroom in Gary, Indiana. | ✍️ debbiemarieb_
by the same news organization details that 6,500 of the 7,000 buildings owned by the city were at one point abandoned. City officials considered auctioning off buildings for one dollar each, as they were without the funds to demolish them.local newsroom will be established, following the first in Atlanta, Georgia.to make local news better across the state, and one of Capital B’s funders originated from that pool of conspirators.
Since Capital B is organized as both a national and local entity, the organization has reporters covering big issues that Black people across the country deem most important, such as climate, health, criminal justice, and education, as well as local reporters giving people “the information they need to navigate life in a particular city,” according to the organization. They intend to build out their local newsrooms over time.
Capital B Atlanta covers state and local politics, criminal justice, and health, and it does a fair amount of service journalism. There is an editorial director, a community engagement editor—tasked primarily with talking to residents across neighborhoods—a criminal justice reporter, a health reporter, a state and local politics reporter, and a general assignment/community reporter.
“We really thought about how we could leverage our skills, our talents, our experiences, our networks to do something, to make journalism better for Black people. And Capital B is what we came up with,” Ofori-Atta says. Capital B pays its editors and reporters generously, relying on institutional grants from foundations, major individual donors, a membership program with a thousand “small-dollar” donors, as well as advertising and corporate event sponsorship.
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