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Berkeleyside has been providing award-winning journalism for 10 years, built with the support of a highly engaged community. Now the organization is branching out — and evolving. Today the founders of Berkeleyside are delighted to announce that we are launching an Oakland news site in the spring of 2020. At the same time, Berkeleyside is in the process of becoming a nonprofit with a mission to deliver civic-minded local reporting more broadly. The new venture has already received $3.1 million in backing, with $1.56 million in funding from Google News Initiative and $1.56 million from the American Journalism Project... Full article: https://www.berkeleyside.com/2019/12/10/berkeleyside-to-launch-news-site-in-oakland-will-convert-to-nonprofit