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Signal Cleveland’s Michael Indriolo selected for the 2025 CatchLight Local Fellowship
Indriolo is one of 14 photojournalists to take part in the fellowship, which is made possible by a partnership between CatchLight and Report for America.
Signal Cleveland and The Marshall Project Win International Award for Data Visualization
Signal Ohio is thrilled to share that The Marshall Project and Signal Cleveland recently won the WAN-IFRA Digital Media Award for Best Data Visualization (Local/Small) for their work on the Cleveland Judge Guide.
Signal Ohio receives $250,000 from MacArthur Foundation
Grant is to support local journalism in service of Ohio communities using our deep community engagement model.
Signal Ohio launches Statewide News Bureau in Columbus
The bureau is dedicated to covering issues and policies at the Ohio Statehouse and how they affect all Ohioans.
Signal awarded two community engagement grants from American Press Institute alongside the Knight Election Hub
Signal Akron and Signal Cleveland newsrooms were part of 31 local and community-based media across the country that were selected to participate.
SIGNAL OHIO CEO TAKES PART IN PANEL DISCUSSION ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF JOURNALISM
Rita McNeil Danish took part in a conversation at the Columbus Metropolitan Club entitled “Real News, Fake News, and How Journalism Can Save Democracy.”
Signal Ohio Expands with New Cincinnati Newsroom and Welcomes Delores Hargrove-Young to the Board
Cincinnati newsroom will join efforts in Cleveland and Akron.
Signal Ohio selected to take part IN joint effort between the American Journalism Project and JPMorganChase
Organization is one of eight nonprofit newsrooms selected nationwide.
SIGNAL OHIO FEATURED IN POYNTER ARTICLE
As philanthropy spends big to fight news deserts, 3 frontline news outlets share what they need.
Signal Cleveland’s good news: 2024 Ohio Excellence in Journalism awards
We are proud to announce that a number of Signal Cleveland reporters and Cleveland Documenters are winners of the 2024 Ohio Excellence in Journalism awards hosted by The Press Club of Cleveland.
Cleveland Documenters featured on ABC News
Documenters, like Kellie Morris — who represent every zip code in Cleveland — are helping reinvent local news.
Signal Ohio Launches Nonprofit Newsroom in Akron
Signal Akron will strengthen area communities by providing public service journalism that centers residents’ needs
Signal Ohio Appoints Community Changemaker Rita McNeil Danish as CEO
After serving for decades as an attorney, Judge, and civil rights advocate, McNeil Danish will lead Signal in its mission to ensure Ohioans have access to quality, public service journalism.
Local Coalition Raises Over $5.8M to Launch Nonprofit News Organization in Ohio
Independent newsroom in Cleveland to launch in 2022, producing daily, high-quality, community-oriented journalism as part of a new statewide network of newsrooms across Ohio
Signal Ohio Raises Over $5M to Launch Second Newsroom in Akron
Signal, a nonprofit news organization with a mission to make local news and information accessible to all Ohioans, has launched a search for an Akron Editor in Chief with plans to launch the newsroom later this year
Ohio Local News Initiative Adds New Board Members
The startup nonprofit news organization welcomes veteran journalists Henry Gomez and Debra Adams Simmons, and Columbus nonprofit leader Tom Katzenmeyer as board chair
Introducing: Signal Cleveland
Signal Cleveland is a new nonprofit newsroom launching in Cleveland
Ohio Local News Initiative and The Marshall Project join forces to fund community reporting collaboration
Rachel Dissell, local journalist, is joining the Ohio Local News Initiative and will contribute to reporting and community engagement efforts of both newsrooms
Ohio Local News Initiative Taps Local Innovator to Lead Cleveland Newsroom
With $6M raised, the statewide network will launch a newsroom in Cleveland, is joining forces with Cleveland Documenters
Research shows Northeast Ohio communities need more verified local information
A study by the American Journalism Project found diminishing original local reporting in Northeast Ohio