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BKLYNER is a Brooklyn-wide news site, with its beginnings in Southern Brooklyn. Their roots are in community reporting, and they care about the communities they cover. They strive to cover the diversity of the Brooklyn neighborhoods and the news, issues, events, and businesses that matter to their residents.
Where they excel is building community — online and off — and that comes by focusing on the needs of all residents.
BKLYNER started as a network of neighborhood news sites, some established as far back as 2008, and grew to include the following: Bensonhurst Bean (2011), Ditmas Park Corner (2012), Fort Greene Focus (2009), KensingtonBK (2012), Sheepshead Bites (2008), South Slope News (2013), and Sunset Park Voice(2016). In January 2017 they were all consolidated in one site, Bklyner.com
Fort Greene Focus began its life in 2009 as The Local, published by the New York Times, and then the CUNY Journalism School ran the site as “The Nabe” in 2013 and 2014.
They are funded through subscriptions from our readers, as well as advertising from local businesses and institutions. You can read more about their work in this piece from The Atlantic: Who’s Left Covering Brooklyn With the Big Newspapers in Retreat?
The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments (SFVC) online platform allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.