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.
July 15, 2022
Local, nonprofit news outlets are surging in number. INN’s Index data show well over half — 55% — of nonprofit news launches since 2017 are locally focused organizations, and the growth in local launches has become more pronounced in the past couple of years. In 2020, 57% of new launches were local; in 2021, this […]
June 27, 2022
For “journalist turned lawyer turned journalist” Ashton Lattimore, serving the LGBTQ community is critical to fulfilling her newsroom’s mission. “Our mission is first and foremost to reflect the lived experience of the people most impacted by injustice,” said Lattimore, editor-in-chief at Prism, an independent, nonprofit news outlet led by women and gender nonbinary/nonconforming journalists of color. […]
April 20, 2022
Joanna Detz practices yoga and goes on multiple daily walks with her dogs. Nina Ignaczak escapes to a nearby creek. And Amy Martin makes a cup of tea, takes a deep breath, and gets back to work. Detz, Ignaczak, and Martin are all founders of news organizations focused on the environment. They understand the importance […]
March 30, 2022
Every time journalist Wendi C. Thomas has gotten a six-figure grant, added a national funder or won a national award, she has thought about writing to the Ivy League professor who once said her news startup idea would not work. A year after that discouragement, Thomas successfully founded the Memphis-based nonprofit newsroom MLK50: Justice Through Journalism. […]
February 7, 2022
In this Q&A series, we discuss partnerships, distribution channels, building trust in communities and more. How is nonprofit news meeting the needs of communities of color? INN’s member newsrooms say they serve communities of color, but we didn’t know how, exactly — until we asked them to tell us more. Each year in our Index survey, […]
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 […]
May 5, 2021
Last week INN published a new case study, How nonprofit newsrooms track sources to ensure coverage reflects community, by Vignesh Ramachandran. This case study is the second case as a part of our series on diversity, equity and inclusion efforts across the nonprofit news industry. The case spotlights how three nonprofit news outlets, WABE News in Atlanta, The Beacon in Kansas City, and WFAE in […]
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 […]
March 4, 2021
Over the past year, INN has watched as the independent and nonprofit news organizations in our network produce incredible service journalism for their audiences (readers, viewers and listeners). What is service journalism, you might ask? We like this definition from Pete Pachal: “Service journalism, of course, is a new term for an old idea: giving readers good, […]
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