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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.
August 23, 2023
The 2023 Nonprofit News Awards (INNYs) showed that nonprofit newsrooms often take the lead in holding government officials accountable, a vital role as the traditional newspaper industry continues to shrink. Whether investigating the high death rate at a county jail, tracing the source of cancer-causing chemicals in a state’s drinking water, or revealing lenience around […]
August 9, 2023
Nonprofit newsrooms covering distinct geographic areas — either local, state/regional or national/global — share commonalities in revenue models, staff size and type of journalism.
July 17, 2023
This year, INN’s research team launched a new service called “Index Pods,” based on data from the annual INN Index survey, to give member news organizations better benchmarking data and more targeted peer connections. Pods leverages the Index survey data INN members send in each year to identify distinct groups of nonprofit news organizations – […]
June 30, 2023
While 2023 continues to present a challenging fundraising environment for all nonprofits, overall support for public service journalism will continue to grow.
June 15, 2023
The Scripps Howard Fund is supporting placement of eight interns — college journalism students or 2023 graduates — at nonprofit newsrooms that are members of the INN Network. All of the newsrooms are actively engaged in INN’s Rural News Network, which provides collaborative reporting from and for rural America. These paid internships are designed to […]
June 8, 2023
Through a partnership between the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN) and the Google News Initiative (GNI), up to 372 members of the INN Network are eligible to participate in a customized version of GNI’s Fundamentals Lab focused on audience development and revenue growth and receive up to $20,000 each in implementation grants. “The nonprofit news […]
May 30, 2023
Allison Altshule, a former reporter for Solitary Watch and legislative fellow at government relations firm NVG, joined INN on May 22 as the first audience research fellow. In the role, Altshule will spend the nine-month fellowship developing audience research tools and working one-on-one with INN members to help them answer their most pressing questions about […]
May 23, 2023
New data from the INN Index 2023 describe a robust nonprofit news field, increasing in capacity and influence, according to a variety of indicators including the numbers of INN Network members, total revenue, philanthropic revenue and staffing size, according to the INN Index Snapshot released today. “Each year, hundreds of news outlets share their data […]
May 19, 2023
Nearly two-thirds of participants in INN’s Major Gifts Cohort Program report seeing growth in major donor revenue in the year after completing their training. This year’s cohort of 12 news organizations hopes to match or exceed that success rate as they embark on an eight-month intensive training that provides newsrooms with resources, guidance and practical […]
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