Seven nonpartisan news outlets in Georgia, all led by people of color and targeted at Black, Hispanic or Asian-American audiences, are receiving a combined $2 million from The Pivot Fund — a new venture philanthropy organization, led by Tracie Powell, that aims to invest in news outlets that funders have traditionally ignored.
“We spent six months looking across the state, identifying what assets were out there, how people consumed information, where they got it from, what they did with it once they had it,” said Powell, who previously led the Racial Equity in Journalism Fund and is board chair of LION Publishers (and who has been thinking about underserved communities in journalism for a long time).
