A large number of Hearst’s businesses are purpose-driven, focused on investing in, informing and protecting communities.

Investing in Communities

Hearst’s consumer and business-to-business divisions work both independently and collaboratively to mobilize resources and support local communities. From producing award-winning investigative journalism to providing public bonds ratings so hospitals and arts programs can expand their operations, Hearst understands the importance of bolstering the people and organizations that define communities.

Learn from colleagues on the Fitch Public Finance team Arlene Bohner, Eric Kim, Madeline Tretout and George Stimola about how their ratings serve as a bridge between public entities and investors.

Fitch Group

Learn more about Fitch’s public bond ratings:

Fitch’s Public Finance ratings help governments and other public sector entities raise funds to build essential infrastructure. Fitch’s ratings serve as a bridge to investors, and a high Fitch rating results in lower borrowing costs.

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ARLENE BOEHNER

ERIC KIM

California's No Place Like Home Program

MADELINE TRETOUT

Denver Health's Outpatient Medical Center

GEORGE STIMOLA

Kimbell Art Foundation

SFNext brings together the Bay Area to answer the region’s most pressing issues.

Hearst NEWSPAPERS

The San Francisco Chronicle’s SFNext project unites political leaders and residents to find solutions to some of the city’s most pressing problems, with a focus on the unhoused. Launched in June 2022, this multilayered effort marshals the Chronicle’s award-winning journalism, podcasts and events.

Unity Trip Helps Black, Chinese American Students Bridge Racial Divide

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About SFNext

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Slideshow of the different faces of the SF Next team

The Team Behind SFNext, a New Initiative To Help the City Solve Crucial Issues

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This Is the Hometown of San Francisco’s Drug Dealers

Informing Communities

From award-winning investigative journalism to critical medical information and services,
Hearst provides vital information to help improve lives.

Hear from Dr. Charles Lee about Meducation’s source of inspiration — his grandmother — who struggled with unofficial translations of her prescription instructions.

Hearst HEALTH

Learn more about Meducation's personalized medication instructions:

Meducation is an FDB solution that provides simplified, patient-specific medication instructions in the patient’s preferred language, written at a fifth- to eighth-grade reading level, with large font sizes, pictograms and explanatory videos. By helping people understand how to take their medications properly, Meducation helps them follow their treatment regimen.

Listen to how the 2023 Hearst Health Prize winner, Stanford Medicine, developed an artificial intelligence solution that helps identify patients at risk for heart attack.

Hearst HEALTH

Learn more about the Hearst Health Prize:

The annual Hearst Health Prize competition, in partnership with the UCLA Center for SMART Health, evaluates data science projects or programs that demonstrate improved health outcomes, awarding $100,000 to the winner. By recognizing excellence in data science in healthcare, the Hearst Health Prize helps proliferate best practices more rapidly.

Hearst newspapers have been nominated for multiple Pulitzer Prizes in recognition of their hard-hitting, community-focused journalism.

Hearst NEWSPAPERS

Recent winners include:

Houston Chronicle

2022

Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Writing

Houston Chronicle

2015

Pulitzer Prize for Commentary

Learn more about the Pulitzer Prize–winning newspapers:

Hearst Newspapers have been finalists in recent Pulitzer Prize nominations as well:
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The Houston Chronicle’s editorial board and the San Francisco Chronicle newsroom were named 2023 Pulitzer Prize finalists for their groundbreaking work in 2022. The Houston Chronicle editorial board, led by Lisa Falkenberg, was honored for a series of editorials on the Uvalde tragedy; the San Francisco Chronicle’s Joaquin Palomino and Trisha Thadani were honored in the Investigative Reporting category for the “Broken Homes” series; and the San Francisco Chronicle’s Gabrielle Lurie and Stephen Lam were honored in the Feature Photography category for their work covering the fentanyl epidemic.

Get the Facts and Rossen Reports

Hearst TELEVISION

Hearst Television regularly produces programming that supports, protects and informs communities through access to their local news and syndicated programming.

Get the Facts reporting helps local news consumers break through clutter and misinformation to understand what is real and factual in everything from new laws to keeping your money safe.

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Rossen Reports provides insight and resources for viewers’ daily lives, with a focus on money management.

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Sharecare provides tools for local communities to understand the overall impact of neighborhoods on their well-being.

Hearst VENTURES

Sharecare, a Hearst Ventures portfolio company, provides tools that highlight the impact of neighborhoods on well-being, bringing together more than 600 proven health risk factors into a single measure in its Community Well-Being Index, which uniquely measures well-being across people and places.

HearstLab and Level Up Ventures invest in companies that enable consumers to give back.

HearstLab has a portfolio of 60+ exclusively women-led companies, many of which empower their users to support their communities directly.

Beam

Beam is a next-generation customer acquisition and retention platform powered by social impact.

Junum

Junum increases the quality of care and drives new top-line revenue for acute care hospitals with its Malnutrition Clinical Decision Support software.

Level Up Ventures is invested in businesses owned and operated by Black and Latinx founders.

Options MD

Options MD addresses the impact of mental health issues in communities by offering personalized care through its telemedicine platform.

Protecting Communities

For many of Hearst’s consumer media and B2B companies, serving community needs is woven into their actual business models. From informing the public and investigating the news to testing new products for their safety and efficacy, Hearst understands the importance of operating businesses that make people’s lives better.

Good Housekeeping: Quality tested since 1909. Limited warranty, ghseal.com for details

The Good Housekeeping Institute provides a promise to consumers — to put their protection first. Learn more about the history of the Institute and the Good Housekeeping Seal.

Hearst MAGAZINES

Learn more about the Good Housekeeping Institute:

The Good Housekeeping Institute is the product evaluation laboratory of Good Housekeeping magazine, which has served as a reliable source of information since 1900, when it launched as a testing facility to detect additives in food and medicines. Today, the Institute’s team of scientists, engineers, chemists and journalists evaluates home products, appliances, homecare devices, technology, food products, recipes, textiles and more to deliver trustworthy advice for consumers. And if a product has the Good Housekeeping Seal, it is a money-back guarantee that the product will be replaced and refunded if it does not perform as promised.

In the face of escalating storm severity, KUBRA offers a comprehensive suite of communication solutions for businesses to offer their customers during service outages.

KUBRA

Learn more about KUBRA products & services:

KUBRA is a leading provider of customer experience management solutions for utility companies, governments, and insurance groups in North America. Through KUBRA’s outage map solution, Storm Center™, utilities provide their customers with information about outages including, estimated restoration time, cause of outage, and crew status. KUBRA’s automated alerts and preference management platform, Notifi®, allows utility customers to automatically receive outage updates on outages through channels like text, email, or phone.