Skip to content

SUBSCRIBE

    Stay up to date with the latest news and info for Philadelphia! Make your selections below:


    Text “EQUAL INFO” to 215-910-4040 to sign up for our free bilingual text messaging service and receive useful news and resources for navigating life in Philly.

    We work with communities like yours to meet information needs. Through neighborhood-specific newsletters, text lines and original reporting we deliver trustworthy, timely and useful information that connects neighbors, builds civic engagement and materially benefits the lives of Philadelphians. Resolve’s work begins with building enduring connections with community members like you, and is based in ongoing listening, relationships and accountability.

    As a newsroom, Resolve often talks of its “communities” more than its “audience.” This word choice is intentional, as it moves us as a journalism organization from a traditional transactional framing to one centered in relationship building and co-creation. When we say “our priority communities” we are referring to those who have been long excluded — or harmed — by traditional media narratives. Specifically, we prioritize serving the information needs of the following groups in Philadelphia and surrounding areas: Black, brown, and immigrant communities, those who work low-wage jobs, those in unsafe and unstable housing, and the disabled community.

    To develop and advance journalism rooted in equity, collaboration, and the elevation of community voices.

    We imagine a Philadelphia in which residents have unfettered access to news and information that is action-oriented, accurate, authentic, and reflects the wealth of assets held among our communities.

    We imagine a world in which long-marginalized groups around the globe are able to thrive — because journalism in their area prioritizes community participation, inclusive information access, and collaborative coverage.

    Resolve Philly grew out of a collaborative reporting project around reentry from prison, a critical issue facing Philadelphia. From 2016 to 2018, 13 newsroom partners produced approximately 200 stories, an unprecedented collaboration in solutions journalism that brought attention to this previously underreported topic.

    With funding from The Lenfest Institute for Journalism, Resolve Philly formed as a nonprofit in 2018 to house Broke in Philly, a second collaborative reporting project that began in 2018 and wrapped up in June 2023. The collaborative expanded to more than two dozen partners that produced more than 3,000 stories in its five years.

    In the years since, Resolve has grown from its two co-founders and our collaborative reporting project now includes 30 newsroom partners publishing in six languages, known as the Philadelphia Journalism Collaborative. PJC’s current editorial focus aims to uncover the inner workings of systems and structures that affect the daily lives of Philadelphia residents.