About the LBMC

The Long Beach Media Collaborative is a team of reporters and editors from four newsrooms across the city: the Press-Telegram, Long Beach Post, Grunion Gazette and Long Beach Business Journal.

Convened by the Long Beach Community Foundation with funding from the Knight Foundation, LBMC supports a new model for producing in-depth, local journalism.

Our first series—Strengthening the Signal—examined an unsettling shortage of Internet access within the city and considers ways to bridge the gap.

In the next phase of its partnership, the collaborative will tackle another divide: the disparities that have created a housing crisis in Long Beach.

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Faces of the Digital Divide (video)

In late September the Long Beach Media Collaborative hosted a forum at the Michelle Obama Library during which we heard from dozens of locals living without internet access…

Technology Changes Dynamics In Multi-Generational Families

Even though her daughter and grandchildren live hundreds of miles away in the Bay Area, 66-year-old Long Beach resident Melinda Wells can still feel close to them, thanks…

‘What are we going to do?’: Home ownership—in some cases housing—is a struggle in Long Beach

In March, shortly after new owners took control of the apartment complex where Quintanilla’s family lived, they and a dozen other families said they received 60-day notices to vacate.

Generational Long Beach Developer’s Concept Aimed at Curbing Housing Shortage

A three-story apartment development nested between Cesar E. Chavez Park and a sea of densely-packed aging apartment complexes isn’t much to look at, but its developer believes it can be a small part of a solution to Southern California’s housing shortage.

The Real Estate Slowdown is Upon Us and Affordability is Playing a Factor

Where do we go from here?