A local nonprofit has acquired Cambridge Day, promising to hire a number of editors and reporters to expand its operations, the news outlet announced Tuesday in an email to backers.

Cambridge News Inc., the local nonprofit group, will raise money to hire a new publisher and editor-in-chief who will work alongside Marc Levy, who founded Cambridge Day in 2009. Levy, who is the only full-time writer by Cambridge Day. , will remain with the publication as editor-in-chief and journalist.

The goal of the expanded paper will be to provide “in-depth, community-focused reporting on issues, whether it’s education or city council, government or development, housing,” Richard said A. Harriman, board member of Cambridge News Inc.

Levy said in an interview that his initial ambition in founding Cambridge Day was to “get partners and grow it organically”, but as this goal became increasingly difficult to achieve, he recognized that the he Cambridge News Inc. offering offered the best path forward for the hyperlocal news outlet.

“It’s not the model I would have thought of myself,” Levy said. “But if I want to work with people for the good of journalism in Cambridge and Somerville and for the good of those communities, then I guess the challenge is for me to respond and work with them.”

In Tuesday’s announcement, Cambridge News Inc. cited a report from the citizen initiative Cambridge News Matters on the importance of local news as the reason for the group’s interest in Cambridge Day.

“Cambridge, Massachusetts wants, needs, and deserves high-quality local news and has the means to deliver it, serving the diverse interests of a diverse population,” the report said.

“When we did our research, no journal in Cambridge was doing this at the level needed,” Harriman said.

Cambridge Day’s expansion comes amid a years-long decline in the city’s media landscape.

The Cambridge Chronicle – a weekly newspaper that covered local news in Cambridge – is currently short on full-time staff and a print publication after vast cost cuts following the merger between its former owner, GateHouse Media, and media conglomerate Gannett. The merger left Cambridge without a dedicated local newspaper for the first time in over 150 years.

Although newspapers such as The Crimson and the Boston Globe have expanded their coverage of Cambridge in recent years, Levy said current coverage of the city is not enough.

“The Boston Globe has made commitment after commitment after commitment after commitment to local news and to Cambridge and Somerville, and it goes back and forth, it goes up and it goes down,” Levy said.

“Having a local newspaper that only covers Cambridge and Somerville is a guarantee that there will always be that priority,” he added.

The trajectory of the expansion is not yet set in stone, and Levy stressed that “nothing is changing right away.”

“One of my goals this weekend is to try to coordinate thoughts and make suggestions to the board on directions they could take in terms of staff spending,” Levy said.

—Editor Matan H. Josephy can be contacted [email protected]. Follow him on @matanjosephy.

—Editor Grace E. Yoon can be reached at [email protected]. Follow her on @graceunkyoon.