It’s time for local news funders to pick winners, scale up, and force mergers, a new report argues

Last summer, Press Forward made almost $23 million in grants to 22 organizations aimed at bolstering the infrastructure for local news . The grants were the culmination of a request for proposals process that began accepting applications in November 2024, and elicited 559 proposals. Elizabeth Hansen Shapiro, with support from Arnold Ventures (disclosure: an occasional consulting client of mine), w