WYPR's news partner, The Baltimore Banner, celebrates their one-year anniversary this month. Tom speaks with the leaders of the online news outlet about the importance of local journalism.
The Baltimore Beat was published for about five months in 2017 before the publisher decided to stop publication. But Lisa Snowden, editor, knew there was a niche and a need in Baltimore for another Black community-focused news outlet in addition to the Baltimore-based 130-year-old The AFRO. She began studying nonprofit news models.
Candid, the major philanthropy research group, is leading a coalition of funders and grantees that want to standardize the collection of demographic information to help enable donations to minority-led groups.