DEADLINE: ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network Grants

ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network began in January 2018 in an effort to help remedy the lack of investigative reporting at the local level. 

In 2024, ProPublica launched the 50 State Initiative, a commitment to support accountability reporting projects in every state by the end of 2029.

We are now seeking five newsrooms — in five different states — to work with us on an investigative project for one year. Newsrooms from 40 states — including radio, tv and written word outlets — are eligible to apply. (We’ve already selected newsrooms from 10 states so we can’t take applications from those places right now; those are: Alaska, Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho, Maine, New York, North Dakota, Oregon, Tennessee and Utah.)

ProPublica will pay the annual salary (up to $75,000 plus an allowance for benefits), for one full-time reporter in each newsroom. Successful candidates will have a proven track record of investigative reporting and impact, and provide a memo about the project they’re proposing for the duration of the partnership, which will begin July 1, 2025.

Once accepted, local reporters will work from and report to their home newsrooms, while receiving extensive support and guidance for their work from ProPublica, including collaboration with a senior editor and access to the nonprofit newsroom’s expertise with data, research, engagement, video and design. The work will be published or broadcast by your newsroom and simultaneously by ProPublica.

The deadline is Apr 14, 2025 at 5 p.m. ET. Application info.

2025 release.