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.
October 7, 2021
Something seemed very wrong with the way I’d been taught to think about my career progression. Like so many of us, I’d heard professional journeys described as climbing a ladder or following a path. But as I moved forward in my work as a journalist, I wasn’t moving in a straight line. The field I […]
August 10, 2021
The annual INN Index report on the state of nonprofit news, released in June, uncovered a surprising trend: despite 2020 being a year of crises, nonprofit news outlets grew by almost every measure (more revenue, more outlets, more stories and bigger audiences). Individual giving, or donations from individuals ranging from major gifts to small-dollar contributions, […]
July 1, 2021
This week INN released a new piece, How to host an intern: Advice from nonprofit news leaders. Here’s why this matters: Journalism internships are notorious for enabling the whiter and wealthier to climb a career ladder, leaving people of color and others from less-privileged backgrounds disadvantaged. Some journalism students are encouraged to take on unpaid work, leaving students who […]
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 […]
April 19, 2021
Photo by Morgan Housel on Unsplash Chris Best Co-Founder Substack Dear Chris, We’re big fans. So we want to say: Hey, you’re missing an opportunity! Thank you for Substack’s grant program helping out independent writers hurt by COVID and now the $1 million fund to help local news reporters set up Substack subscription businesses. We appreciate […]
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, […]
February 22, 2021
Dozens of news organizations survive on more than sheer determination to provide neighborhood news. Photo taken from Center for Journalism & Liberty. This report was written by Tom Davidson for The Center for Journalism & Liberty, originally published Jan. 5, 2021, and is republished here with permission. When a veteran Maryland legislator was sentenced to prison […]
February 3, 2021
By SevenMaps / Shutterstock From Eden Prairie, Minnesota, here’s the happiest journalism news of the new year: Eden Prairie is saving its local news, one year after a hedge fund bought the local newspaper and promptly closed it. Some 65,000 people live in this farm town turned suburb, on the rolling bluffs where the prairie […]
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