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.
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 15, 2022
Here at the Institute for Nonprofit News, we’re often asked what makes nonprofit news different. Two events this month reminded us how different nonprofit news organizations actually are from other kinds of media — and why they’re growing fast, even as commercial news continues to decline. On Feb. 2, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune announced it will start running […]
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 21, 2021
The end of a year always lends itself to reflection. And the beginning of the new year comes with resolutions. This is where my head has been over the past couple of weeks. Reflection. Resolution. Reflection. Resolution. In the middle of a pandemic in 2020, I left my job at a local public radio station […]
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 […]
October 19, 2021
A national headline ran across the country last week: “Efforts to track diversity in journalism are lagging” (AP). But it’s only partly true. Many legacy and commercial newspapers have balked at reporting their diversity stats for years. Last week, the News Leaders Association said that it extended the deadline to complete its study of diversity […]
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