Co-published by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and Columbia Journalism Review. In just a few years, a publisher based in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, has become the country’s fourth-largest newspaper operator. Some reporters wonder if it isn’t the cruelest.

Co-published with KPBS. With our support, KPBS reporter Alexandra Rangel examines the severe shortage of truckers in San Diego and visits a local driving school working to keep up with demand.

Co-published with The Chronicle of Philanthropy. For relatively small investments, philanthropy could help preserve some of the most important local journalism around—and fend off growing rightwing “news” sites.