New nonprofit news outlet will cover Central Indiana

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Hoosiers will soon have another source for news after a coalition of organizations and philanthropists raised more than $10 million to create nonprofit media outlets across Indiana.

The initiative is organized by the American Journalism Project, a nonprofit organization that funds newsrooms and journalism projects nationwide.

A yet-to-be-named Central Indiana newsroom to start later this year will produce "non-partisan journalism on a daily basis that is free to access, centers community voices and lets residents help set newsgathering priorities," according to a news release from the Indiana Local News Initiative.

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