New Civic Information Index offers crucial insight into civic health in the US
WASHINGTON, DC and PROVIDENCE, RI – Today marks the launch of the Civic Information Index, a groundbreaking new tool that maps and tracks the health of local information and civic health ecosystems across the United States. The initiative is co-led by The Listening Post Collective at Internews and the Information Futures Lab at Brown University, and supported by Press Forward. The Index provides a first-of-its-kind, county-level look at data on access to information, health, opportunity, equity, justice and other metrics that assess a community’s civic health. It underscores journalism as a key part of the local infrastructure necessary to enable robust, thriving communities, and helps philanthropists invest more strategically in local media by surfacing gaps and opportunities.
