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.
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 […]
June 30, 2023
The philanthropy headlines were stark last week: The Chronicle of Philanthropy: “Drop in Giving … Among the Steepest Ever” The Nonprofit Times: “U.S. Philanthropy Plummeted $17 Billion as Donors Disappeared” Both are pegged to the annual Giving USA report, which found charitable giving declined 10.5% after inflation from 2021 to 2022. So how did news nonprofits […]
December 6, 2022
Congress needs to fix loopholes in a news protection act moving toward a vote if it hopes to meet its aims of preserving local journalism. The Journalism Competition and Preservation Act, JCPA, aims to fundamentally shift the relationship between U.S. news companies and digital platforms by forcing platforms to negotiate payment for the news they […]
November 9, 2022
It’s November — fundraising season — which means that all of us are focused on the same question: how do we generate the support to sustain our work into next year and beyond? More to the point: how do we describe our value to those we serve and those who sustain us? So we want […]
July 28, 2022
Hi there! Syedah and Zoe here. We’re summer research interns at the Institute for Nonprofit News through the Emma Bowen Foundation, a nonprofit organization that places high-achieving students of color in internships at the nation’s leading media and technology companies. We attended INN Days back in June and took note of the major themes shared […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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