The Corporation for Public Community Newspapers

You decide what you want in your local community newspaper. As a member of The Corporation for Public Community Newspapers, you review the performance of your local community newspaper, set goals for its future work, and vote to fund special projects. See this introduction written for a forthcoming issue of the Montana Journalism Review or this slideshow introduction. We are also exploring performance measurement for the public community newspaper.

Check out our holiday season 2008 fundraising letter

The Corporation for Public Community Newspapers (CPCN) provides a formal structure for conducting what we call Public Journalism 2.0: a combination of civic journalism (agenda setting by the community) and citizen journalism (reporting by the community with support from journalism professionals). CPCN's independent revenue sources and budget give members a direct and permanent voice in the public community newspaper through the projects and activities that it chooses to fund.

The Corporation for Public Community Newspapers is registered in the state of Montana as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. For more information, contact us by sending email to info [at] publicnewspapers [dot] org.