City Bureau gets $10 million to make public meetings more public
Documenters has already trained more than 1,700 people who've covered more than 2,300 public meetings.
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Documenters has already trained more than 1,700 people who've covered more than 2,300 public meetings.
Some 1,800 newspapers in the U.S. have closed since 2004. That leaves roughly 200 counties out of about 3,100 nationwide without a newspaper.
The ambitious nonprofit news organization that aims to produce 'high-quality accountability journalism' centered on community voices will be led by Mills, associate director at Neighborhood Connections, a Cleveland organization focused on building community networks. She's a former Plain Dealer reporter who also led the establishment of the Cleveland Documenters organization.
Documenters cover Minneapolis and Hennepin County government and the Minneapolis school board.