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We help news organizations navigate the evolving media landscape, offering strategic guidance on storytelling, audience engagement, and digital transformation, particularly around the opportunities presented by AI for local news organizations.

We partner with other news organizations and academic institutions to produce high-impact special projects and incubate journalistic enterprises focused on accountability reporting and immersive storytelling.

On the ground reporting

“GroundTruth reporting is about bearing witness, holding power to account, and amplifying voices too often unheard. In an era of misinformation, independent journalism isn’t just important—it’s vital to democracy.”

Charles Sennott, founder