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2026
Explore 218 projects in the Local news category of the Civic Tech Field Guide.
Amidst a decline in the commercial viability of local news, ensuring accurate journalism at the local level has become a philanthropic endeavor upon itself.
Local guides, community conversation, and news from every Chicago newsroom, gathered in one place.
Emergency Mode for News is a free disaster-preparedness resource hub that gives U.S. journalists and newsrooms checklists, templates, training and publishing tools for before, during and after climate disasters.
Context Window is a newsletter from The Lenfest Institute for Journalism that shares AI projects, lessons and ready-to-use tools with local news organizations across the United States.
Suwali is a messaging-based question-answering platform from the nonprofit Meedan that lets newsrooms and civil-society groups answer audience questions with their own trusted information over chat channels.
A free tool that puts who decides, when, and how to reach them inside your story โ and counts every action readers take.
Zette turns published local-council agendas, committee papers, and minutes across England and Wales into digestible weekly briefings, delivered as newsletters, podcasts, and videos so residents can actually follow what their council is doing.
Watch highlights of your city, county, and school board meetings.
America.co is a US political-media organization building a self-described trans-partisan "common sense" movement, organized around content creation, a physical creator house, a manifesto, and a coalition of allied election and civic-tech projects.
A platform that lets communities flag civic incidents via text, voice, and multimedia, giving local organizations an early read on developing problems so they can act faster.