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About Porter County 360 News
A local newsroom for Porter County, Indiana. Who runs it, who pays for it, where it works and how to reach it.
What we do
Porter County 360 News (PC360) covers Porter County, Indiana: the cities of Valparaiso and Portage, the towns of Chesterton, Porter, Burns Harbor, Hebron, Kouts, Ogden Dunes, Beverly Shores, Dune Acres and Pines, and the county's unincorporated communities. We start with the record: votes taken by county, city and town boards, school district notices, police and fire department releases, state and federal agency documents, and our own questions to the people involved. Every story lists its sources at the bottom.
We report arrests, charges, court cases and crashes once a police department, a court or an established newsroom has made them public. We never name juveniles or victims of sexual or domestic violence, and we never print a home address. When we use an organization's own words, the story says so.
Where our newsroom is
PC360 is an edition of South Coast 360 News, an independent digital local news outlet. Our newsroom works remotely and has no office in Porter County. We report from Porter County's public records, its public meetings and local sources: what the county, its cities and towns, its school districts and state and federal agencies post, and what people tell us on the record. When we have not been somewhere ourselves, the story does not say or suggest that we were.
Our desks
Our stories are bylined to the desk whose beat they cover, such as "By the PC360 Government Desk."
- News Desk
- Government Desk
- Schools Desk
- Public Safety Desk
- Courts Desk
- Sports Desk
- Business Desk
- Community Desk
- Weather Desk
Our editors
PC360 follows the same rules as South Coast 360 News. Its editors set the rules every story follows, decide what runs about crimes, allegations and private people, and own every correction. Reach them at news@southcoast360.com.
Who owns PC360, and who pays for it
PC360 is an edition of South Coast 360 News, a creation of Cuttyhunk Creative Studio, a division of Cuttyhunk Branding & Business Services. It takes no money from political campaigns. It plans to carry clearly labeled local sponsors; a sponsor never sees a story before it is published and never decides what we cover.
Our owner also runs other businesses and holds other roles. When a story touches one of them, the story says so, or we do not run it. Those disclosures are part of our standards.
Our pictures
Photos are credited on the page to the photographer or agency that made them, with the license or permission they come under: town, county and state handouts, U.S. government photos, and photos their makers share under Creative Commons licenses. A photo always shows the story's own subject. We do not use images made by AI as news pictures.
The drawing of Porter County in late fall across the top of our pages is our own.
Illustration: Porter County 360 News
Send a tip, a document or a correction
Email the newsroom at news@southcoast360.com, and put PC360 in the subject line. We never publish a tip as fact; we look for the document. If a story is wrong, see our corrections policy.