Founded in 2005, the Voice of San Diego is a highly specialized and localized non-profit investigative journalism outlet. The About section of their website perhaps sums up what they do best: “We don't try to be everything to everybody. We don't think we're the only place you're going to get news today. We know that in today's world you've got plenty of places to turn for national and international coverage, and there are other publications in San Diego doing work that we don't need to chase after or replicate.”
Funding: Like ProPublica, the Voice of San Diego rely on donations from foundations and individuals to sustain themselves. They run PBS-style pledge drives to help shore up their funding and, also like ProPublica, have relationships with for-profit outlets. They partner with their local NBC TV affiliate in order to augment that station’s crippled newsroom and provide a vehicle for their content. This relationship has been so successful that media giant Comcast, which is currently in talks to take over NBC Universal, cited it as a model that they would like to replicate across the country.
Featured Stories:
Affordable No More by Andrew Donahue
This story about the San Diego real estate market was the winner of the 2007 Sigma Delta Chi award for online investigative reporting.
The School Guru Who Promised Rescue and Brought Ruin by Emily Alpert
This story about mismanaged charter schools was the winner of the 2008 Education Writers Association award.
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