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Notes From The Field
Community-Funded Journalism: The Numbers Behind Our Top 2025 Stories
Announcing Confluence: The new voice for the Great Lakes Bay Region in Michigan
IMG awarded grant to cover economic impact of Haitian immigration in Springfield, OH
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Solutions that work, from communities like yours. Explore innovative stories from across our network showcasing how neighborhoods are solving today’s challenges together.
- How nonprofits are responding to a labor shortage while leading inclusion
- Children’s mental health: When and where to access care
- Where will Michigan’s next governor stand on early childhood education?
- Hope Starts Here stabilizing early childhood services in wake of policy changes
- الإطار العملي “الأمل يبدأ من هنا” يعزّز القدرة على الصمود في مواجهة التحديات
- Apprenticeships growing Michigan’s health care workforce
- Little Ortonville goes big for small business
- El modelo de Hope Starts Here promueve la resiliencia ante los desafíos
- Can volunteer walk audits fix data gaps for accessible pedestrian infrastructure?
Projects
Issue Media Group leverages the power of solutions-based + narrative storytelling in partnership with community-based leadership coalitions to increase attachment to place – a foundational element to inclusive economic growth – while delivering community response to local media contraction.
Our Mission and Model
Through a coalition of community partners, Issue Media Group publishes weekly journalism covering sustainability, transportation, arts and culture, talent, design, neighborhood growth and revitalization, small businesses and entrepreneurship, and social innovation.
Underwriting
Underwriting is the basis of our model as a publication. Support from underwriters allows IMG to dedicate editorial resources to cover key issue areas that are of importance to both the underwriter and IMG’s mission.
Our Teams
Issue Media Group, a local journalism leader, publishes weekly news thanks to our editorial leadership teams operating locally and our executive leadership team. Meet our leadership team members.