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NOWCastSA
Texas
NOWCastSA

 NOWCastSA is a nonprofit community news organization that was created to address the scarcity of meaningful local news and information in the San Antonio Metropolitan Area, to democratize local data and to get people engaged in their community. Its mission is to promote and facilitate an inclusive civic conversation by empowering neighbors to identify common issues and share information through education, training, community news, events and multimedia.

 

City

San Antonio

State

TX

Zip code

78205

Year launched

2009

Tax status

  • Nonprofit 501c3

Geographic scope

  • Metro or large city

Scope of coverage

  • Emphasize several topics but not cover all the news broadly

Topics of coverage

  • Education & schools
  • Government & politics
  • Health & medicine

Other content topics

We also cover the environment (air and water) culture and the arts. For example, thanks to NOWCastSA, San Antonio has a YouTube playlist of Poets Laureate!

Watchdog journalism?

  • Yes, infrequently

Facebook link

www.facebook.com/NOWCastSA/

Site Twitter handle

https://twitter.com/NOWCastSA

Effective engagement practice

Social media and live webcast events.

In the news

Nonprofit membership program: http://nowcastsa.com/blogs/nowcastsa-nonprofit-membership-program

Our 2015 documentary on the incarceration of asylum-seeking mothers and children from Central America:
http://nowcastsa.com/blogs/asylum-seeking-mothers-family-imprisonment-texas

Catch up and Get Ahead with the Edge, NOWCastSA's weekly YouTube newscast: http://nowcastsa.com/category/edge