Founded in 2012 as an alternative arts-focused website, Albany Proper has grown to cover a variety of topics that are important to our community.

Our style is simple — content should be clutter-free and visually-driven. The voices we amplify should be unique and with an emphasis on those that are historically excluded. The profits should not be a driving force.

CODE OF ETHICS: Albany Proper follows a set of journalistic guidelines while reporting and publishing our work. A code of ethics is made publicly available to make sure we keep our promise.

SOCIAL MEDIA POLICY: If we had it our way, all social media comments would be disabled, as they are on our own website. If you disagree with this, you may be more comfortable in the comments section of other local news outlets — we’ve adopted this social media policy to not be like them.

REPUBLISHING GUIDELINES: Our work is made available to the public to republish with certain restrictions. Please see our guidelines for more information.

OPEN DATA: The Albany Proper Open Data portal gives you unrestricted access to the source data behind our reporting and reinforces our mission of promoting civic engagement and discourse on public policy, politics, government and other matters of city and statewide concern. This data is freely available to everyone to use and republish as they wish, without restrictions from copyright, intellectual property rights, or other mechanisms of control.

SUPPORT: As an entirely volunteer run publication, Albany Proper is always accepting individual contributions to help maintain our storytelling efforts. Your support will help support local photographers and writers. The more individual donors we get, the more we’ll be able to grow.

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