Digital Divide

Dallas Free Press is committed to providing quality, trustworthy journalism to all communities in Dallas, and is seeking to hire two full-time reporters to focus on South Dallas and West Dallas in 2021.

Dallas Free Press is working to bridge the digital divide in Dallas by partnering with KERA and the Solutions Journalism Network to report on internet initiatives and provide coverage to the community through various platforms.

Dallas Free Press has been using Subtext to send texts with community information to South Dallas and West Dallas residents, and is actively working to grow its reach.

Dallas ISD officials have a three-phase plan to give families free WiFi that could minimize the city’s digital divide.

South Dallas’ Lincoln High School could place an antenna on its roof and transmit broadband signals to household receivers. A student could then type a code into her laptop and sign on to the network from home.

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Virtual learning has become the new normal in the wake […]

Sylvia Deleon would arrive at the Wesley-Rankin Community Center in West Dallas at 8 a.m. each weekday, eager to see her friends and begin the morning’s activities.