July 15, 2026
Do your homework before your local match asks, advises Evanston RoundTable's Karen Demorest.
April 26, 2023
Volunteers are the lifeforce behind many nonprofit organizations — generating hundreds of billions in economic value every year. According to Americorps, roughly a quarter of Americans — more than 60 million people — volunteered with an organization in 2021. Nonprofit news is a business, covering local, statewide, national and global issues while paying salaries that are generally […]
January 13, 2023
Video reporter Harold Corbin covers a city press conference in Norwalk, Connecticut. Photo by Nancy Chapman for NancyOnNorwalk With all of the financial challenges facing small newsrooms these days, media liability insurance may seem like an unnecessary expense. But anyone producing journalism today runs the risk of being sued for defamation, which can derail a […]
January 5, 2023
How do you make your year-end fundraising stand out? How might a giving campaign raise more than money? For some participants in NewsMatch, the answer was to broaden their appeals to embrace a spirit of togetherness. These members of the Institute for Nonprofit News launched creative engagement strategies that increased trust with their constituents, fostered […]
October 24, 2022
As the U.S. heads into the 2022 midterm elections, plenty of newsrooms around the country are providing the same sort of coverage they always have. They’ll focus more on campaign stops, political attacks, and which candidates are winning or losing in polls than on the policies and issues at stake. This kind of coverage, known […]
August 31, 2022
Four outlets share advice for other publishers. Over the last year, INN’s research team has been on a mission to better understand how nonprofit news organizations are serving communities of color. In a recent Q&A series with our members, we heard from multiple newsrooms that are translating select stories or events to the non-English languages that are relevant […]
August 5, 2022
Job hunting is hard. Uprooting your life to move across the country for a start-up? That can be downright scary. That’s why, when Outlier Media began hiring business roles at an entirely new level thanks to their largest-ever investment from the American Journalism Project, Executive Director Candice Fortman decided to give potential applicants the chance to talk […]
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 […]
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