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Empowering Communities Through Trusted News

Uplift Local empowers communities through high quality, community-first reporting and partnerships that close news gaps and disrupt misinformation.

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Uplift Local represents a new kind of participatory journalism that will change how people in Oregon and Washington get news and information in the next 10 years.

Our work is all about engaging communities, rebuilding a sense of place, pushing back on misinformation, and opening up the newsroom to involve more people in solving the problem of how people get the information they need and want.

We heard from more than 3,600 people in four languages to understand what they need most from local news.

Then we built a news model to deliver it.

Uplift Local offers articles and information in the languages people prefer, expands the pipeline of people providing that information, and solves the last-mile gap between the news people need and their ability to access it wherever and whenever they need to. Want to learn more? Keep reading.

Our Vision

Documenters

We train and pay people to help cover local public meetings. This ensures important information is shared with the public, holds elected officials accountable and gets more people involved in democracy.

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Pipeline

We offer training and jobs to community members who want to learn to be journalists. This leads to more representative journalism and provides a template to address longstanding recruitment, retention and inclusion issues in the news industry.

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Last Mile

We work collaboratively to solve the “last mile” information gap. This means we will test new models to make sure that we not only get the information that people need, but also make sure they can access it wherever and whenever they want.
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“I wish they would highlight the people driving changes to uplift our community.”

Survey response, male, age 65+, Clark County, Black or African American

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