Public Interest Journalism – Media in the Public Interest

Public Interest Journalism

Media in the Public Interest (MPI) is the nonprofit affiliate of the Public News Service (PNS), an AP-style news service for public interest news.

Through this partnership, we support nonprofit organizations, investigative news producers, foundations, and others by producing news stories on environmental, economic, health and social justice issues. We target these stories to national, regional or state-level media, depending upon each organization’s strategic focus.

Stories are distributed in ready-to-use radio, print, and digital formats reaching:

6,000 news outlets across the country and,
an estimated potential weekly audience of 60 million.

Working with nationally renowned communications professionals and journalists, MPI enhances public debate, promotes civic journalism, and strengthens democracy by amplifying grassroots voices that are often excluded from the public dialogue.

We develop strategies that help journalists and public interest non-profit advocates increase the impact of their work, leading to positive policy outcomes and stronger, more influential progressive leaders.

We have partnered with Investigative and Solutions journalists and news producers and Journalism Schools to support efforts to inform the public on critical issues of the day.

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MPI’s work enhances public debate and promotes civic journalism by amplifying the grassroots non-p

Media in the Public Interest

4 days ago

Getting water to Appalachian communities is challenging and expensive, said Joe Pheil, the executive director at the Ohio Rural Water Association. Residents are spread out in small communities among the hills, and it’s difficult to pump water up and down. The reason these people and communities are left without reliable drinking water? The cost.#water #Ohio … See MoreSee Less

Vinton County, Ohio Residents Await Community Water Systems

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By Zachary Shepherd and Kelsey Paulus for Kent State News Lab.Broadcast version by Nadia Ramlagan reporting for the Kent State-Ohio News Connection Collaboration. In summer 2022, Garrett, Jenny and th…

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5 days ago

#Ohio’s affordable housing shortage has worsened over the past year, according to new data from the Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio and the National Low Income Housing Coalition. … See MoreSee Less

Report: Ohio’s Affordable Housing Shortage is Worsening

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Ohio’s affordable housing shortage has worsened over the past year, according to new data from the Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio and the National Low Income Housing Coalition. The repo…

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2 weeks ago

Last month’s train derailment and chemical spill in #eastpalestine could have far-reaching and long-lasting impacts on the state’s soil and drinking water, environmental experts say. The #Ohio EPA reports approximately 700 tons of solid waste have been hauled out of the derailment site, along with around 1.8 million gallons of wastewater. … See MoreSee Less

How East Palestine Rail Disaster Could Impact Ohio’s Soil, Drinking Water

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Last month’s train derailment and chemical spill in East Palestine could have far-reaching and long-lasting impacts on the state’s soil and drinking water, environmental experts say. The Ohio EPA repo…

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2 weeks ago

Jeff Duling’s 1,400-acre farm sits at the end of a long and dusty gravel driveway in Northwest #Ohio’s Putnam County, about halfway between Lima and Defiance. An aluminum-sided grain elevator towers over his fields, where he grows corn, wheat and soybeans.Duling recently entered the estimated $84 billion carbon market after he purchased 134 new acres of farmland and enrolled them in a program called RegenConnect, which incentivizes farmers to use regenerative agriculture practices that help capture carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and move it via plants into the soil. Those 134 acres represent a new revenue stream for Duling: RegenConnect pays him for each acre that helps sequester carbon, using funds from companies seeking to offset their greenhouse gas emissions or declare themselves “net zero.”Carbon sequestration is the process of capturing and storing atmospheric carbon dioxide to help reduce the amount of it in the atmosphere, with the larger goal of reducing global climate change, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. … See MoreSee Less

Ohio Farmers Try Out Early Carbon Sequestration Programs

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By Baylee Sweitzer for Kent State News Lab.Broadcast version by Nadia Ramlagan reporting for the Kent State-Ohio News Connection Collaboration. Jeff Duling’s 1,400-acre farm sits at the end of a lon…

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2 weeks ago

Kris Swartz had a better growing season this year than he expected. He planted later than usual in the spring because it rained a lot, but dry weather in August and September gave his crops more time to grow and catch up with the lost time from spring.#farmers #Ohio #climatechange … See MoreSee Less

Climate Change Challenges Ohio Farmers

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By Baylee Sweitzer for Kent State News Lab.Broadcast version by Nadia Ramlagan reporting for the Kent State-Ohio News Connection Collaboration. Kris Swartz had a better growing season this year than h…

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