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Jan 3, 2025 · WHAT IS DOCUMENTERS? We train and pay people to attend under-reported public meetings in Omaha and publish the results. We are part of a national network of organizations that seeks to help people understand what’s going on in their local communities by making important information available to the public, encouraging open conversations, and inspiring people to get involved.
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Mission. Flatwater. Free Press. Flatwater echoes the origins of our state’s name, a translation of the Oto or Omaha words for the Platte River. The Platte of course spans the state, providing sustenance and a travel route for this land’s first human inhabitants.
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Dec 21, 2024 · The Flatwater Free Press is Nebraska’s first independent, nonprofit newsroom focused on investigations and feature stories that matter. Flatwater Free Press
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State of Our Union. The Atlantic came to Lincoln on Oct. 23 to host “State of Our Union: Nebraska.” The daylong event, hosted in partnership with the Flatwater Free Press, featured a series of discussions with local leaders, policy makers and journalists on topics of regional and national importance.
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Matthew Hansen, Editor. Matthew Hansen is the editor of the Flatwater Free Press, Nebraska’s first statewide nonprofit news source. Hansen, a 16-year veteran of Nebraska newspapers, has previously worked as a reporter at the Lincoln Journal Star and then a reporter and metro columnist at the Omaha World-Herald.
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Dec 23, 2024 · FEBRUARY. Four of Nebraska’s largest school districts use debt collectors to go after unpaid lunch tabs. FFP reporter Jeremy Turley uncovered the story that 4 of Nebraska’s largest school districts, including Lincoln, were paying debt collectors to go after unpaid lunch tabs. Lincoln’s school leaders ended the practice almost immediately after …
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ABOUT DOCUMENTERS. Nebraska Documenters is a program of the Nebraska Journalism Trust that empowers citizens to actively participate in local government by documenting public meetings.
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