Facebook Journalism Project announces Sustainability Accelerator program participants

Facebook Journalism Project has announced 20 organizations who will be participating in its Sustainability Accelerator program, which provides intensive training in the essentials to building a sustainable media business, reports Adweek.

The program is being financed with part of Facebook’s $5 million investment in publishers.

Participants for the program were selected by Facebook staff, International Center for Journalists staff and coaches, from the more than 200 applications submitted in the U.S.

The details are as follows:

• One-half of the group is made up of Black-owned, Black-led publishers, from some of the nation’s oldest Black newspapers to digitally native organizations
• 80% of the participants focus on local news
• Two-thirds are from the Midwest or South
• Just over one-half are for-profit organizations

The participants include:

• Black Voice News, a nearly 50-year old newspaper based in Riverside, Calif.
• Centro de Periodismo Investigativo, a watchdog group of veteran investigative reporters based in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
• Community Voice of Wichita.
• El Mundo Boston.
• Flint Beat, a digitally native publisher from Flint, Mich.
• Hola Carolina, the sole major Spanish-language news outlet for the western North Carolina region.
• Indian Country Today, a nationally followed news organization with a base in Arizona.
• La Raza Chicago.
• Lakota Times of South Dakota.
• NextShark, one of the largest online destinations for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
• Outlier Media.
• Prism.
• PushBlack.
• Rafu Shimpo, founded by Japanese students in 1903 provides Japanese-Americans in the Los Angeles area with quality local news.
• Sahan Journal.
• St. Louis American.
• The Atlanta Voice.
• The Charlotte Post.
• The Miami Times.
• The Tennessee Tribune.