Today, Knight Foundation is announcing $1.8 million in new investments to help better inform and engage residents of the Detroit region. This is a reinvestment in the Detroit Journalism Cooperative, a partnership of five nonprofit media organizations doing important work telling the city’s story, and new support for the Detroit Journalism Engagement Fund, a collaboration with the Ford Foundation and the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan. Working with national and local partners, we are helping to create new models in journalism that can be shared across the industry, helping local news organizations better connect with the communities they serve and helping develop new innovations in storytelling. Knight has made many investments in this area, including the recent Knight News Match, which helped 57 nonprofit organizations across the country, including Bridge Magazine, Detroit Public Television, Michigan Radio, and WDET, raise funds while increasing their membership and donor bases. I live in Detroit, and these are the types of resources and engagement that help me better understand and participate in our community, and we want to ensure that everyone across our neighborhoods has the same opportunity.