The Oaklandside Is Creating a Blueprint for Nonprofit Local News

Despite the pandemic, the publication doubled its membership goal

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Last June, the nonprofit organization Cityside launched The Oaklandside, then an eight-person newsroom, to cover hyper-local Oakland, Calif. news. Despite launching just a few months into the pandemic, the publication has since surpassed many of the internal benchmarks it set to measure success.

The modest venture of launching a local newsroom caught the eye of publishing executives across the country because The Oaklandside offered a new approach to solving a tenaciously stubborn problem: finding a sustainable business model for local news.

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