For seven years, The Center Square has built reporting that Americans across the country read, hear, watch, and rely on every day, often without knowing the nonprofit foundation behind it.
That changes now.
We are bringing The Center Square forward as our public name, front and center. Franklin News Foundation remains our nonprofit home and legal entity. What changes is the name we lead with. From here forward, the brand behind our reporting is the one we carry everywhere: The Center Square.
The reason is simple. The Center Square now reaches an average of 141 million American adults each day, as measured by Cision, through more than 1,350 media partners, while publishing 65-plus stories every weekday. The reporting has traveled farther than the public identity behind it. It is time the two matched.
Our new website tells the full story of what this work makes possible: nonpartisan, nonprofit, taxpayer-focused accountability journalism — no staff-written opinion, no advocacy, built to fill the accountability gap that local, state, and national outlets keep leaving behind. You will see the range of our reporting, the reach of our distribution, and the real consequences the work produces:
Enterprise journalism and deep-dive investigations that put public money under scrutiny.
Daily accountability beats that follow government where coverage has thinned.
Reporting that has prompted government responses, sparked legislative reviews, and given taxpayers information they would not otherwise have had.
This is the work we invite you to help strengthen. We are proud to show you what it is already accomplishing.
The Center Square exists to inform — to bring government into plain view, in language people can follow while they get on with their lives. The new site builds on that, so you can see the work clearly and understand the role supporters play in delivering it nationwide.
And if the mission moves you, we invite you to help advance it. Share The Center Square with a colleague, a friend, or a partner. And consider joining the supporters who make America’s accountability newswire possible.
Thank you for considering this mission.