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April 24, 2025
INN has welcomed 33 news organizations to the INN Network since late 2024, including its first Mexican member.
February 3, 2022
This partnership with the Google News Initiative (GNI) addresses two needs in the growing nonprofit news field: deepening audience engagement and increasing staff diversity. The INN + GNI Fellowship in Digital Marketing will connect INN member news organizations with recent college graduates who have completed a digital apprenticeship at COOP, an initiative that equips diverse, […]
January 24, 2022
Growth strategist Meta Stange joins the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN) as the program manager for NewsMatch, the largest collaborative fundraising campaign building awareness and support for nonprofit journalism. Before joining INN, Meta was the digital content and engagement manager for WDET, Detroit’s NPR Station, where she developed and implemented a comprehensive strategy for WDET’s […]
January 4, 2022
Sharon McGowan, INN’s Midwest collaborations editor, is retiring this week after nearly three years at INN and nine years before that at INN member Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service. Sharon McGowan helped jumpstart INN’s Amplify News Project in 2019, after a career as a journalist and journalism professor. McGowan came to INN in early 2019 to […]
January 3, 2022
NewsMatch funders pledged $6 million to 2021 campaign and an additional $6 million for future years As of December 31, 2021, the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN) and its partners raised $12 million to support the NewsMatch program, which benefits nonprofit news organizations across North America. The $12 million total includes $6 million in matching funds, […]
November 11, 2021
A new journalism consortium covering rural issues will kick off with two collaborations investigating economic issues in Indigenous communities and access to water in the West. The Rural News Network from the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN) is launching in 2022 to surface the most pressing issues confronting America’s rural communities, with a focus on […]
November 10, 2021
November 10, 2021 — Los Angeles, CA — CalMatters publisher and COO Marcia Parker on Wednesday was named chair of the INN board of directors, which also ratified election of four member representative directors as the INN network of independent, nonprofit newsrooms drives strong growth in public service journalism across North America. Parker, who has […]
October 26, 2021
Donations to participating newsrooms will be matched through Dec. 31, 2021. Give today at findyournews.org/newsmatch NewsMatch 2021 will support newsrooms delivering vital pandemic information, investigating abuses of power and strengthening communities across America. Oct. 26, 2021 — LOS ANGELES — Local newsrooms across America that delivered life-saving information during the pandemic, and investigative newsrooms that […]
October 19, 2021
The News Leaders Association recently expressed disappointment in how few news organizations were willing to report diversity of their staffs in an employment practices survey. As a result, this headline made its way around the country last week: “Efforts to track diversity in journalism are lagging” (AP). But INN staff realized the same is not […]
October 16, 2021
Of the 44 awards, 15 go to INN members In the wake of Wednesday’s Nonprofit News Awards, the Online News Association confirmed what we already know — INN members do outstanding digital journalism! INN members captured a third of the prestigious Online Journalism Awards announced Friday. Of the 44 awards, 15 went to INN members […]
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