Daniel Ash is associate vice president for Community Impact at the Chicago Community Trust; Lolly Bowean is program officer for Media and Storytelling at the Field Foundation; Kathy Im is the director of Journalism and Media at the MacArthur Foundation; Channing Lenert is a program officer at the Polk Bros. Foundation; Andres Torres is Democracy Program officer at the McCormick Foundation.
In fact, as the devastation of COVID-19 falls most heavily on lower-income communities of color, according to Pew Research, people of color rely on local news more than their white counterparts and turn to it more than any other source for coronavirus news.
Quality information, essential to preserving public health and coming from trusted voices, is needed to check the coronavirus. Thankfully, Chicago has a robust media landscape that includes outlets operating in dozens of languages and serving the diverse communities that might not be able to access or be willing to trust information from other sources.
