Banner Press Room

The Banner won five best of show awards in public service and arts and entertainment reporting categories, among others.

The Baltimore Banner selected 12 community leaders to be recognized at its inaugural Emerging Leaders event in May.

One of our earliest decisions at The Baltimore Banner was to structure ourselves as a nonprofit, focused on delivering quality, trustworthy news that serves our mission. And unlike a hedge fund, we won’t be in it for the money, focused on profits.

We worked with each of our journalists to think deeply about how their work affects people, and to craft individual mission statements that describe the specific impacts their work aims to have.

The Baltimore Banner launches today and we’re excited about what that means for local journalism.

When local news isn’t strong and credible, bad things happen in local communities. That concern was the genesis of what turned into The Baltimore Banner.

We’re busy hiring reporters and editors and making plans for our official launch later this spring. Here are a few of the things we’re planning.