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June 9, 2026

Nonprofit news outlets faced headwinds in 2025: New INN Index data

Latest figures show fieldwide stability but slower growth.

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July 27, 2022

Nonprofit news outlets are growing revenue and audiences while expanding across local markets

INN Index Report shows broadened demand for public service journalism Nonprofit news is driving sustained, multi-year growth, and the number of outlets providing local coverage has rapidly increased over the past four years, according to the 2022 INN Index Report released today from the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN). The latest Index finds growth of […]

July 13, 2022

INN@ONA returns! INN members meet Sept. 21 for latest on audience development, INNY awards

INN Network nonprofit news leaders will gather in person for the first time since the pandemic, in conjunction with this year’s Online News Association Conference in Los Angeles from Sept. 21-24, 2022. INN resumes its @ONA training sessions tailored to nonprofits with a special workshop on audience development techniques, plus an Innovation/Impact showcase lunch, the […]

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June 29, 2022

Stephanie Schenkel brings news fundraising expertise to INN as director of network philanthropy

Stephanie Schenkel joins the Institute for Nonprofit News as the director of network philanthropy, a role that is responsible for designing and managing capacity-building programs and collaborative fundraising initiatives to grow philanthropic support for newsrooms across the INN Network.  She will support newsrooms by developing resources ⁠— including training programs and shared services ⁠— and […]

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June 8, 2022

Emmy-winning journalist Alana Rocha to lead INN’s Rural News Network

Emmy-winning journalist Alana Rocha has been named to lead the Rural News Network — the most ambitious collaboration to date from the Institute for Nonprofit News. As the Editor, Rural News Network and Special Projects, Rocha will guide the launch of the INN Rural News Network in 2022. She will work with members to identify […]

June 6, 2022

Sam Cholke to manage distribution and audience growth opportunities for INN Network

Sam Cholke to manage distribution and growth opportunities for INN Network

May 26, 2022

15 diverse news professionals to receive coaching for projects on revenue, readership and policy through the Emerging Leaders Council

The Institute for Nonprofit News welcomes the 2022 Emerging Leaders Council — our largest cohort to date.

April 18, 2022

Nonprofit media leader Soraya Membreno joins INN as COO

The Institute for Nonprofit News has appointed media leader Soraya Membreno as chief operating officer to lead organizational development as INN extends programs and support to a growing number of nonprofit newsrooms across North America. Membreno will create and implement more efficient processes and systems that support both INN staff and the more than 360 […]

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April 14, 2022

Local businesses, foundations and major donors provide record support to fund nonprofit news during NewsMatch 2021

The NewsMatch collaborative fundraising initiative — known since 2016 for providing matching gifts to nonprofit newsrooms from a national pooled fund — in 2021 generated the largest number of local matches in the program’s history, raising more than $4 million from almost 1,000 local businesses, family and community foundations and major donors. This represents a […]

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April 4, 2022

‘At the Crossroads’ collaboration tackles oppression, opportunity in Indian Country

On a recent winter afternoon, Spokane Tribal Elder Viola Frizzell spoke about the changes she had witnessed on the reservation in her lifetime, and how today’s opportunities were different.  It would be her last interview. “If I wasn’t in a wheelchair, I would be out there working,” Frizzell told Monica Peone, Editor/Manager at the Rawhide […]