Public News Service Expansion

Founded and operated by a former Reuters television producer and a team of seasoned reporters and editors, Public News Service (PNS) proposes building out its network of state-based progressive AP-style news services, which currently provide news used by mainstream, alternative, independent and ethnic outlets, both local and national in scope. Integrating progressive voices with new and existing technologies, PNS’s charge is to build editorial and infrastructure capacity to provide a vehicle to “mainline” progressive content as ubiquitously and quickly as possible. PNS’s expansion will:

  1. add local progressive coverage for five additional key states (FL, PA, MI, VI and TN) to the current coverage in 15 states;
  2. increase the number of nonprofits brought into the network of strategic communicators as well as the range of issues that PNS reports on, in particular by creating a new Congressional Progressive Caucus beat to localize and “translate” national stories; and
  3. add new capabilities to its internet distribution, thus widening its audience.

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