October 24, 2025
How can newsrooms harness the power of the INN Network to meet this moment of distribution volatility?
September 14, 2023
INN’s main goal for Index Pods is to give members the benchmarking data and peer community needed to support strategic planning.
July 13, 2023
Last month INN reported in the INN Index Snapshot that state and regional outlets are behind much of the nonprofit news sector’s revenue gains, growing their median revenue by 36% in a one-year timeframe (from 2021 to 2022). A major driver has been foundations increasingly funding journalism at the state level, allowing nonprofit news outlets with a […]
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 […]
January 23, 2023
The INN Index is our annual census of more than 400 news organizations that are members of the Institute for Nonprofit News. Since 2018, members have completed the survey in a commitment to collective transparency and contribution to the nonprofit news sector. Their participation in the Index generates knowledge, benchmarking data and support for the rapidly growing field. […]
January 5, 2023
How do you make your year-end fundraising stand out? How might a giving campaign raise more than money? For some participants in NewsMatch, the answer was to broaden their appeals to embrace a spirit of togetherness. These members of the Institute for Nonprofit News launched creative engagement strategies that increased trust with their constituents, fostered […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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