New Media Ventures

Indiegraf is a Vancouver-based company that supports independent news outlets by providing tools, resources, and services to help them launch and sustain digital news operations. It offers news‑pooling tools, digital playbooks, research, sales and growth services, and capital templates, enabling media outlets to grow audiences and revenues while filling local news gaps.

Founded in 2018, The Juggernaut is a digital media publication that focuses on well-reported stories about South Asia and South Asians. It offers a subscription-based service covering diverse topics such as tech, culture, politics, and business, providing insights into the current developments in the Asian region.

Wonder Media Network is an audio-first media company based in New York, founded in 2018. The company focuses on amplifying underrepresented voices, particularly those of women, through podcasts and audio content centered on themes of politics, business, and culture. It aims to inspire action, promote equality and justice, and foster empathy within these domains. By providing motivational audio messages that highlight lesser-known stories and perspectives, Wonder Media Network seeks to engage listeners and encourage broader discussions around important societal issues.

Prism is an independent, nonprofit newsroom that centers on the people, places, and issues currently underreported by the national media.

Pulso is a Miami-based non-profit media start-up founded in 2018, focused on enhancing the political influence of the projected 32 million Latinx voters in the United States. The company creates an organizing platform designed to foster meaningful digital relationships with its subscribers. By sharing news, history, and cultural narratives curated by Latinos for Latinos, Pulso aims to engage and empower the Latinx community, ensuring their voices are heard and their stories are told.

Weird Enough Productions is a multimedia production company focused on creating original content and promoting media literacy education. The company aims to address media misrepresentation by developing projects that highlight the complexities of the human experience, particularly from perspectives often ignored by mainstream media. Through its initiatives, Weird Enough Productions empowers children and communities to access, analyze, evaluate, and create media content, ultimately enhancing traditional literacy and improving standardized test scores. By fostering creativity and collaboration, the company seeks to challenge stereotypes and provide valuable educational resources.

WITNESS is an international organization that trains and supports people using video in their fight for human rights. The organization trains and supports activists and citizens around the world to use video safely, ethically, and effectively expose human rights abuse and fight for human rights change. It identifies critical situations and teach those affected by them the basics of video production, safe and ethical filming techniques, and advocacy strategies. Some of the topics covered by the organization include gender-based violence, Middle East and North Africa Transitions, child soldiers, human trafficking, elder abuse, climate change, internally displaced persons, and more. WITNESS was founded by Richard Branson, Michael Posner, and Peter Gabriel in 1992.

PushBlack is a nonprofit media platform dedicated to celebrating Black history. It reaches over 3 million subscribers with inspiring stories and uses this historical context to mobilize its audience for social action, particularly voting.