May 1, 2025
Nonprofit news has evolved into a viable model to support local journalism at scale — the problem is that while the models are there, the people are not. This is Jonathan Kealing's call to action.
April 5, 2024
Editor’s note: In 2023, the Institute for Nonprofit News welcomed Allison Altshule as its first audience research fellow, and I mistakenly thought her work here would be relatively straightforward. The challenge was obvious: There were a growing number of news organizations facing strategic challenges around increasing their audience and a lack of people who saw […]
March 22, 2024
Anyone familiar with the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN) will not be surprised to hear that the traditional model of journalism has imploded, especially at the local level. But there is some new research that may be helpful as nonprofit news organizations continue to make the case for their relevance and importance in shoring up the market […]
February 2, 2024
In June 2023, Juan Moreno Haines was up for parole after 27 years of incarceration. He had a job lined up as editor-in-chief at Solitary Watch, a watchdog news organization that reports on harsh conditions of isolation in prisons and jails. But he was denied parole and sent back to San Quentin State Prison. He […]
January 12, 2024
The signs are increasingly clear that the pipelines for free organic audience growth are going to keep contracting over the next year. That means news organizations need to be savvier about capturing the audience that is out there looking for their reporting and smarter about finding the audience that would love certain reporting if they […]
January 8, 2024
Last week, I felt like I had two bosses: Sue Cross, the outgoing CEO of INN, who hired me at the start of the pandemic in 2020 and has overseen a rapid growth in the nonprofit news field since then, and Karen Rundlet, the incoming CEO, whom I have known as one of INN’s greatest […]
December 21, 2023
In this season centered on giving and connections with family and friends, I’ve been reflecting more on trust. Trust bonds people to each other, and people to the institutions that are fundamental to a functioning and thriving society. It is the sine qua non of both journalism and fundraising, where my professional life has intersected for 20+ […]
December 14, 2023
INN staff indicate how they refer queries from member newsrooms to colleagues with the right expertise during our strategy retreat in July 2023. We all know and love that annual journalism prediction series (and participate in it), but this year we thought: we have our own experts, let’s ask them what’s in store for 2024. So […]
December 8, 2023
I think a lot about career pathways. Some people call them talent pipelines, but I prefer the idea of people negotiating professional journeys rather than being pumped through a tube. In my position as director of leadership and talent development at INN, I also consider the many points in a career when someone might turn […]
November 20, 2023
Over the past few years, many companies and institutions have been moving away from simple “checkbox diversity” — a question of demographics — toward practices that focus on equity and inclusion. This newer approach looks at diversity, equity and inclusion not as an initiative within an organization but as a value system implemented throughout the […]
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