Our Impact
Our approach to collaborative journalism has been praised by the former chair of the Pulitzer Prize as a promising response to the collapse of the local news industry, and our model has been replicated by dozens of reporting projects around the globe.
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As of February 2025, we’ve trained 294 Philadelphia residents to be Documenters and created a record for nearly 260 public meetings.
“Germantown Info Hub’s coverage of Vernon Park and the broader community uplifts and amplifies the stories and truth of our neighborhood and all who live here. Our volunteer group, Friends of Vernon Park, is so grateful for their enthusiastic, curious, dedicated and socially-conscious journalism and resource-sharing which connects and inspires us all.”
Angela Miles, chair at Friends of Vernon Park
Public Source – Talking to Journalists: What You Need to Know
Our business-card-sized resource “Talking to a reporter?” inspired PublicSource to create their own resource called “Talking to Journalists: What You Need to Know.” The Pittsburgh newsroom, in collaboration with Define American, a nonprofit organization that works to empower storytelling about immigrant experiences, built on our work by developing a postcard that educates individuals about their rights and what to expect when approached by reporters. This resource is available in multiple languages and is made for journalists to provide to immigrant interviewees, explaining the process and terminology like “on/off the record” and “on background.”
Broke in Philly: A Retrospective
Experience the impactful story of the Philadelphia Journalism Collaborative, which grew out of the Broke in Philly collaborative reporting project that began in 2018 and wrapped up in June 2023. More than two dozen newsrooms came together to publish 3,000 stories under the Broke in Philly banner.
Broke in Philly used a solutions journalism approach to look at economic mobility and anti-poverty efforts in an intentional way that focused on centering voices of people who typically are left out of or misrepresented in media coverage.of poverty and economic mobility in Philadelphia.