The Knight- Lenfest Local News Transformation Fund has announced a $211,500 investment in Resolve Philly to support the launch of the Philadelphia Journalism Collaborative, a new citywide journalism initiative building upon the success of Broke in Philly.
With this funding, Resolve Philly will provide collaborative newsroom partners with editorial leadership and shared resources, including community engagement, data journalism, social media, professional and peer development support and direct monetary support, via a collaborative news project funding pot.
Since 2019, the Knight-Lenfest Fund, a joint venture of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and The Lenfest Institute for Journalism, has supported Resolve Philly to run Broke in Philly, a collaborative reporting project on economic mobility and solutions reporting on poverty which brought together 29 newsrooms across Philadelphia.
