When Local News Thrives, the Whole Story Changes.

HEALTHY NEWS HELPS US ALL

Communities with healthy local news have higher voting rates and less government corruption and waste. They have more people who join civic groups and donate to local charities. Local news decreases political polarization and knits together disparate communities; residents become more aware of shared problems, interests and opportunities. Those who follow local news are more likely to know their neighbors.

NEWSWELL TRANSFORMS LOCAL NEWS 
TO HELP COMMUNITIES AND DEMOCRACY THRIVE

GROW

NEWSWELL, a nonprofit based at Arizona State University, provides back-end operations and business strategies to help news sites become or remain sustainable. Local journalists report the news. NEWSWELL offers the support.

INNOVATE

We don’t just want to sustain local news, we want to transform it. We’ll work with researchers, faculty and students across America’s most innovative university to solve journalism’s biggest problems.

EDUCATE

We partner with the renowned Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at ASU to provide learning opportunities for students as well as professional development and a talent pipeline for our newsrooms.

TRANSFORMING LOCAL NEWS

NEWSWELL’s innovative business model supports sustainable newsrooms to help communities and democracy thrive.

REIMAGINING ITS FUTURE

We partner with Arizona State University, named the nation’s most innovative 10 years in a row, to offer industry-changing ideas, tools and research.

CREATING NEW PATHS
TO LEARNING

We embrace learning, both for the students who support our newsrooms and the communities who benefit from trusted news and information.

Donate
to NEWSWELL

Your donation to NEWSWELL ensures a future for factual, nonpartisan journalism in America’s hometowns. We’re innovating a new business model that helps local newsrooms stay local, but get the services and strategy they need to thrive. Donate today to support reporting that holds the powerful accountable, informs and empowers residents and offers solutions to our shared problems. 

Healthy news helps us all.