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Berkeleyside is launching a sister site in Oakland to help fill the void left by pillaged newspapers
December 10, 2019

With a twin $1.56 million each from the American Journalism Project (as part of its first grantees) and the Google News Initiative, 10-year-old independent news site Berkeleyside is growing from “seven people in one room” to a nonprofit network of local news sites in the Bay Area.

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