June 13, 2025
While nonprofit news leaders didn’t hold back when it came to the challenges facing nonprofit newsrooms, the theme of community prevailed at INN Days 2025.
May 21, 2025
INN is building a place for audience editors to collaborate and work on audience experimentation, which we believe is vital to the future of our field.
May 16, 2025
Maritza L. Félix talked with INN about her community-focused programming and the things she has learned serving border communities.
May 8, 2025
Ken Ward, founding editor-in-chief of Mountain State Spotlight, talked with INN about how his small team conducted election surveys across West Virginia.
April 24, 2025
Read about how INN Network newsrooms' on-the-ground reporting have led them to be key sources of information about the local impact of funding cuts made in Washington, D.C.
February 28, 2025
INN Network members that focus on immigration and immigrant communities are reporting news and sharing crucial information at a time of marked vulnerability for much of their key audiences — and in some cases, themselves. Read how they're navigating risks.
January 31, 2025
Standing out as a newsroom is hard. Getting your work seen can be even harder. Ken Schneck, editor of The Buckeye Flame, is a big fan of “shameless self-promotion” of his newsroom and the work it does.
January 10, 2025
The nonprofit news sector is strengthening its pipeline for the next generation of journalists with an expanded internship program that merges diversity, opportunity and impactful rural reporting. In 2025, the Scripps Howard Fund, the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN) and the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting will offer 13 paid internships across rural […]
December 20, 2024
In a remote Alaskan village, where election information is often as sparse as winter daylight, a newsroom’s voter guide bridged a critical information gap — offering details about ballot initiatives that had never before reached the community as an easy-to-follow guide. Meanwhile, in the plains of South Dakota, a local newsroom’s alliance with a state […]
October 21, 2024
“I like to say, we don’t compete, we complete.” That’s how Ron Smith, executive director of the Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service, describes his newsroom’s long standing relationship with the statewide outlet Wisconsin Watch, which culminated in a formal merger announced this September. After years of collaborating on innovative projects like the News414 text reporting system, which […]
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