Company Profile

Company Description:

Fort Worth Report is a nonprofit digital news organization that provides factual, non-partisan coverage of core community issues across Fort Worth and Tarrant County, a population of more than two million people. Our areas of concentration include city and county government, business, healthcare, K-12 education and arts and culture.
 
We were founded after two years of research and fundraising by a local volunteer board of directors, and launched in 2021 after receiving seed funding of $1.25 million from a Fort Worth foundation. We launched with a newsroom of four, and hired our first cohort of three full-time fellows in spring 2021. 

Although we post stories daily, we focus on thoughtful, deeper reporting that provides context and solutions, rather than quick hits. We believe strong factual reporting helps hold government officials accountable, strengthens communities and helps residents become more informed and more engaged citizens. Our publisher, Chris Cobler, a journalist with more than 30 years of experience running community newspapers, encourages all reporters to follow the "two-notebook" process: Each reporter should keep one notebook for shorter-term, more immediate stories, and another in which to report longer-form, more in-depth articles that may take weeks or months to come to fruition.
 
Readers can access our reporting for free at our website, www.fortworthreport.org, or sign up for a free daily newsletter that delivers headlines in their inbox every weekday morning. As a nonprofit 501c3, we are supported by the community, through tax-deductible donations from individuals, foundations, businesses, organizations and other entities.