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 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 […]
November 3, 2020
SkyPics Studio/Shutterstock.com We’re awash this year in a sea of propaganda and misinformation. Fake news sites, false reports, news-like stories selected and spun not to make us smarter, but to make us hate, to steer us toward supporting someone else’s cause. Recent reports sound a tsunami alert to the rising tide of the fake and […]
September 9, 2020
I left journalism 12 years ago, one of many “leavers” who had become disenchanted with the industry. I came back four years ago to join the Institute for Nonprofit News as its Chief Knowledge Officer in charge of programming and events that help INN members learn from experts and from each other as nonprofit news […]
May 6, 2020
Police and firefighters. Health care providers. Food producers. News reporters? When the federal government included news publishers and journalists in its list of “essential workers” critical to public safety in the coronavirus crisis, it reflected what people looking for trustworthy news know now more than ever: Reporting the news is a public service. On May […]
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