MS NOW announces partnerships to expand investigative and local journalism

MS NOW has announced a series of partnerships and a new grant program aimed at expanding investigative reporting and strengthening local journalism across the United States.

The initiative includes collaborations with the Pulitzer Center, The Marshall Project and States Newsroom, the organization said.

The company said the effort builds on the development of its independent newsroom over the past year, including multiyear agreements with Sky News and AccuWeather and the hiring of more than three dozen award-winning journalists.

MS NOW also launched a grant program to support local, nonprofit and independent journalists producing accountability reporting. The program will be developed in partnership with the Pulitzer Center, which funds investigative and explanatory journalism in the U.S. and internationally.

Through the partnership, journalists and newsrooms will receive funding to pursue reporting projects on national and local issues, with completed work distributed across MS NOW’s linear and digital platforms.

MS NOW and The Marshall Project will collaborate on investigative reporting focused on U.S. immigration enforcement and detention practices. The reporting will include joint investigations and field reporting on Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations, detention conditions and the impact on affected communities.

MS NOW correspondents Jacob Soboroff, David Noriega and Rosa Flores are among those expected to contribute to the collaboration.

The company is also expanding its partnership with States Newsroom to increase coverage of state and local politics. The effort will focus on reporting tied to the 2026 midterm elections and the 2028 presidential election cycle.

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States Newsroom operates a network of more than 200 journalists covering state governments across the country.

MS NOW said the expanded collaborations are intended to increase original reporting and broaden access to local news during a period of change in the media industry.