Welcome,

These are fraught times. Division, intolerance and hostility seemingly challenge America's existence. We must solve for our societal dysfunction and the instinct to take sides against one another.

Mainstream media's both-sides approach fails in today's fragmented landscape. Meanwhile, social media algorithms amplify polarizing voices. So, is there common ground where we can discover what unites rather than punctuate what divides us?

Vital journalism moving communities forward. That's Issue Media Group's core focus across 17 sites in four states. Now we're launching Common Ground, a national platform where community stories will intersect and possibilities emerge.

We'll curate solutions journalism via website, newsletter and social media, cross-pollinating ideas and solutions across rural, urban and suburban communities. When neighborhoods innovate, their success stories will connect with others facing similar challenges.

While polarization dominates national politics, people unite around local issues. Common Ground will amplify our impact from local to national to nearly 2 million monthly readers.

If this resonates, please reach out. Finding common ground is my passion, and I love to talk about it.

John Montgomery, CEO
[email protected]

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Flintside has relaunched its On the Ground series amplifying community voices, increasing civic engagement, and bringing greater visibility to neighborhood change-makers.

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Global Detroit, is a national leader in advocating for and executing strategies to drive equitable local, regional and statewide economic growth through immigrant inclusion.

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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. 

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Our Mission & 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.

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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.

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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.

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