Local photojournalism gets a boost from a California nonprofit – Columbia Journalism Review

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Local photojournalism gets a boost from a California nonprofit

CatchLight, a California-based nonprofit, was launched in 2015 to create opportunities and support for photojournalists; over the past several years, they’ve created project grants for photojournalists and partnered with local newsrooms to offer financ

via Columbia Journalism Review: https://www.cjr.org/business_of_news/local-photojournalism-gets-a-boost.php

CatchLight Local announced that five philanthropic organizations will invest a combined two million dollars over the next several years in an effort to address what CatchLight CEO Elodie Mailliet Storm calls “image deserts”: the decline and dearth of photojournalism at the local level.