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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.
October 22, 2024
When mission drives audience strategy: New INN Index findings Nonprofit outlets define audiences and distribution strategy to match their mission Talking about news audiences and distribution tactics can feel like fraught territory. We’re all tracking declining referral traffic from social media, drops in public trust and news consumption, and shifting news consumer habits. Unsurprisingly, small local […]
October 17, 2024
A new compensation survey released by the Institute for Nonprofit News shows a slight increase in the average base reporter’s salary for a nonprofit news outlet – $86,703, up from $82,943 in 2022. The survey highlights salary and benefits information pooled from 149 nonprofit news outlets, including salaries for 21 job titles and information on […]
October 15, 2024
The sixth and final cohort of the GNI Fundamentals Lab for INN Members will begin training this month in audience development, reader revenue and sponsor advertising thanks to a partnership between the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN) and the Google News Initiative (GNI). Over the next three months, these 29 newsrooms will receive personalized audits of their […]
October 10, 2024
Since 2022, hundreds of news outlets have taken part in U.S. Democracy Day, a nonpartisan collaborative project to improve news coverage of threats to the U.S. system of government. This year, the Institute for Nonprofit News worked with the Center for Cooperative Media to offer nonprofit news organizations participating in the effort an extra incentive: […]
October 4, 2024
To address the pressing healthcare challenges facing rural and marginalized communities across the United States, six nonprofit newsrooms — the Associated Press, California Health Report, Capital B, Cardinal News, CatchLight Local and Enlace Latino NC — came together to form the editorial collaboration “Bridging Access.” This initiative, led by the Institute for Nonprofit News’ Rural News […]
September 18, 2024
The work of 2024 Nonprofit News Awards (INNYs) winners highlights people and places often missing, or underrepresented, in typical reporting: the 7th Avenue Tunnel in Olympia, Washington, where one unhoused man saved another’s life; alleys of a Chicago neighborhood where family members and neighbors searched for a missing Black woman; and a New Hampshire town […]
September 9, 2024
The Rural News Network from the Institute for Nonprofit News has become a powerful consortium of independent, nonprofit publishers that informs and engages residents of U.S. rural communities and broadens global understanding of what it means to live and work in rural regions. For months, these local, regional and statewide newsrooms have been surveying their […]
September 6, 2024
Nonprofit news leaders need to have a vision for their organization and its evolution. But they also need to be able to adapt to the times. That’s something Erin Orr, executive director of Investigate Midwest, has learned during a three-decade journalism career. “It’s important to have a plan,” Orr said, “but at the same time, […]
August 14, 2024
This August, the fifth cohort of the GNI Fundamentals Lab for INN Members will begin training in audience development, reader revenue and sponsor advertising thanks to a partnership between the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN) and the Google News Initiative (GNI). Since October 2023, more than 230 newsrooms have participated in the program — with […]
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