The Beacon is a non-profit online news outlet in the Kansas City metropolitan area focusing on public-interest journalism. It is Kansas City’s first regional nonprofit news outlet that is not a public television or radio station. It was founded in 2020 by Kelsey Ryan, a former Investigative journalist for the Kansas City Star and a 2018 Pulitzer Prize finalist. It launched earlier than planned on March 12, 2020, in response to community information needs with the COVID-19 pandemic. The news network is overseen by an eight-member Board of Directors and the Kansas City newsroom works with a 10-member community advisory board. The news organization received initial funding from a Google News Initiative Innovation Challenge in 2019 and has received additional funding from the Solutions Journalism Network in order to write about broadband infrastructure in Kansas and Missouri. It is a member of the Institute for Nonprofit News, Local Independent Online News Publishers (LION), and the Kansas Press Association. More information...
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