We build and sustain community newspapers in towns no newsroom model has been able to afford — human-edited, nonpartisan, and independently audited.
What we do
We launch community papers in one- and no-newsroom towns — starting with the markets where the information gap is most acute.
We extend existing newsrooms, networks, and local institutions — their standards, their voice, a wider reach into the counties around them.
We measure what restored coverage does — turnout, candidate filings, meeting attendance, records requests — against matched communities without it.
Essential local coverage is collapsing as legacy newspapers fold. The nonprofit newsrooms rebuilt over the past decade do excellent work — but each carries a fixed cost that decides where it can exist. Below a certain market size, the math has never worked. Those are the towns we're built for.
counties with no local news source at all
counties down to a single remaining outlet
Americans with limited or no local news
We're rebuilding local news as a public good — with production costs low enough to reach every community, and human judgment on every page.
The pilot
live community papers across Ohio, in towns of 25,000–250,000
published articles — accountability, budgets, courts, service, data
of audited load-bearing facts held up against original sources
Spotlight
Lorain County, Ohio
When the state released $2.35 million for prison repairs, the Chronicle pulled the facility's own inspection reports — which described it as clean and orderly — and asked the state to explain the gap. Ordinary watchdog work, in a county where nobody else was doing it.
in public spending questioned in a single story
state inspection reports checked against the release
other outlets performing this function for the county
How is this affordable? A publishing platform handles the production work — records monitoring, drafting, formatting, distribution — and a human editor owns every judgment: what runs, what's true, how it's framed. The drafting layer uses AI; the judgment layer is people, and nothing publishes unreviewed. A community paper runs on about $7,000 a year instead of $250,000+.
Our papers
Kalispell, MT
Ann Arbor, MI
Dearborn, MI
Lansing, MI
Sterling Heights, MI
Grand Rapids, MI
Flint, MI
Warren, MI
Troy, MI
Livonia, MI
Westland, MI
Lorain, OH
Newark, OH
Kettering, OH
Dayton, OH
Youngstown, OH
Canton, OH
Springfield, OH
Beavercreek, OH
Mansfield, OH
Euclid, OH
Lakewood, OH
Hamilton, OH
Dublin, OH
Akron, OH
Parma, OH
Cuyahoga Falls, OH
Middletown, OH
Elyria, OH
Lakeshore, OH
Mentor, OH
North Carolina
A selection from the network's live properties across Ohio, Michigan, Montana, and North Carolina. More markets launching in VA, AL, KY, and TN.
Announcements
07/2026
An external review checked load-bearing facts across the pilot's published work against original sources — state filings, inspection reports, court opinions, and poll releases.
From the network
07/2026
A $2.35M capital release, checked against the facility's own inspection record.
Insights
06/2026
Springfield, Kettering, Parma, Hamilton, and Canton each got their own story — a local frame, not a wire copy.
We work with funders, newsrooms, and local institutions to bring durable coverage to the communities that lost it. Anchor the platform, underwrite a market, or extend a newsroom you already support.
Start a conversationDan McSwain, CEO · dan@genara.ai
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