Lawyers for Reporters, a Vance Center initiative, provides pro bono legal assistance to local and mission-driven journalism organizations in the United States. LFR was created to empower these outlets to investigate and inform their communities about the issues that affect their lives.
Program Area: Public Square
Black River Life
Black River Life, a fiscally sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, is a nonprofit creative studio and cultural organizing hub working to redress generations of anti-Black narrative harm. Through music, film, journalism and digital content, they seek to transform public conversations about Blackness, inviting the kind of discourse that makes multiracial democracy possible.
Press On South Inc
Press On, a Southern media collective, catalyzes change and advances justice through the practice of movement journalism. They train, resource, and build the capacity and narrative power of journalists, media makers, and community organizers from Southern BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, working-class, rural, disabled, immigrant, youth, and elder communities.
Charlottesville Tomorrow
The Charlottesville Inclusive Media Project, a project of Charlottesville Tomorrow, aims to support and cultivate collaboration among the region’s local news outlets.
Santa Fe Community Foundation
The New Mexico Local News Fund at the Santa Fe Community Foundation is working to create a healthy news and information ecosystem that serves the news and information needs of all New Mexicans.
Free Press
Free Press’ Media 2070 project calls for the policies needed to make media reparations a reality, falling within the historical lineage of calls for repair of anti-Black harm. Media 2070’s vision is to achieve a future where Black people have the capital and power necessary to own and control their own stories, from ideation to production, through to distribution.
Yale University
This grant is to provide flexible funding support to the Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic at Yale University Law School at Yale University, including support for the Media Freedom Information Access Clinic’s annual conference titled Access and Accountability 2018: A Conference for Transparency Advocates.
Yale University
To support research that can contribute to a convincing body of evidence that can inform stakeholders in media, industry, and government on how to most effectively design and regulate online spaces in a way that limits threats to democracy.
The Miami Foundation Inc.
The Legal Clinic Fund, a joint fund housed at The Miami Foundation, makes grants to university legal clinics to expand their capacity as critical First Amendment advocates and resources for legal support for local newsrooms around the country.
The Miami Foundation Inc.
The Press Forward pooled fund, a collaborative vehicle housed at The Miami Foundation, will support local news around the country. Press Forward seeks to reverse the dramatic decline in local news that has coincided with an increasingly divided America and weakening trust in institutions.