April 4, 2025
INN is building a “new kind of news network,” that “ensures all people in every community have access to trusted news.”
December 6, 2021
I applied for the Emerging Leaders Council (ELC) at the Institute for Nonprofit News about a year after my partner and I co-founded Prison Journalism Project, an independent, non-partisan, national initiative that trains incarcerated writers to become journalists and publishes their stories. We started our online publication in the height of the pandemic to record the COVID-19 experiences […]
August 10, 2021
The annual INN Index report on the state of nonprofit news, released in June, uncovered a surprising trend: despite 2020 being a year of crises, nonprofit news outlets grew by almost every measure (more revenue, more outlets, more stories and bigger audiences). Individual giving, or donations from individuals ranging from major gifts to small-dollar contributions, […]
July 1, 2021
This week INN released a new piece, How to host an intern: Advice from nonprofit news leaders. Here’s why this matters: Journalism internships are notorious for enabling the whiter and wealthier to climb a career ladder, leaving people of color and others from less-privileged backgrounds disadvantaged. Some journalism students are encouraged to take on unpaid work, leaving students who […]
March 10, 2021
Takeaways from INN’s case study on Bay City News The COVID-19 pandemic and the economic uncertainty that followed brought challenges for many nonprofit newsrooms’ major gift fundraising efforts. Uncertainty around support from major donors is a serious challenge. Donations from major donors, defined as gifts of $5,000 or more from individuals, are an essential part […]
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