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April 24, 2025

New INN members expand local news coverage, reaching across borders

INN has welcomed 33 news organizations to the INN Network since late 2024, including its first Mexican member.

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May 17, 2023

Institute for Nonprofit News starts transition to new leadership

Veteran journalist and news leader Sue Cross will step down as executive director & CEO of the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN) by the end of this year, INN announced today.  Cross led the transformation of INN from a relatively small consortium of news organizations into the hub of a fast-growing network with 425 nonprofit […]

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May 10, 2023

Institute for Nonprofit News launches RuralNewsNetwork.org

Rural Americans are among the most impacted by the decline of traditional newspapers. Even where news outlets still exist, their coverage may not reflect the diversity of rural populations today or go deep into the issues that disproportionately affect rural regions, such as climate change, access to health care, and the economics of Indigenous communities.  […]

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April 27, 2023

16 nonprofit news leaders join the 2023 Emerging Leaders Council

The Institute for Nonprofit News (INN) welcomes the members of the 2023 Emerging Leaders Council – our largest cohort yet. Now in its sixth year, the program supports diverse news leaders who will innovate and grow the nonprofit news field. The 16 people in this year’s cohort represent the wide scope of nonprofit news organizations […]

April 5, 2023

NewsMatch expands journalism funding from national foundations to local funders and individual donors

Investment in nonprofit news organizations exceeds $270 million For the first time, nonprofit news organizations attracted more matching funds from local funders than from national and regional foundations during NewsMatch, the year-end matching-gift campaign that is transforming how communities sustain and expand access to the news coverage they need.  NewsMatch 2022 kicked off in November […]

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March 24, 2023

National health care group seeds INN’s next rural health collaboration

The next phase of INN’s editorial collaborations on rural health issues is being developed with support from the National Institute for Health Care Management (NIHCM), a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to transforming health care through evidence and collaboration.  This grant seeds a second iteration of INN’s Breaking Point series, published in October 2022, investigating the […]

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March 2, 2023

New research associate Ha Ta brings data analysis expertise to INN

Ha Ta joins the Institute for Nonprofit News as research associate, where she will work with Research Director Emily Roseman to expand and deepen INN’s knowledge of the nonprofit news field and serve members, partners and academics.  Ta will help lead INN’s new “pods” program for members — which sorts newsrooms into 12, data-driven peer […]

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February 15, 2023

First nonprofit news publishers to use Medill’s subscriber engagement tool

Five members of the INN Network are the first nonprofit news organizations to participate in the Subscriber Engagement Index, a project of Northwestern University’s Medill Spiegel Research Center and Mather Economics that uses data science to study how news audiences build long-term relationships with news organizations.  Understanding how news consumers build and maintain habits enables […]

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February 10, 2023

Learning what works for DEI in journalism: new case study series will share tactics

Many people across the journalism sector are talking about diversity, equity and inclusion, but what are news organizations doing about it and, most importantly, what tactics are effective in building work cultures where more people are included and treated equitably? The Institute for Nonprofit News (INN) is teaming up with the Diversity Pledge Institute (DPI) […]

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January 10, 2023

Why media liability insurance is crucial: new INN case study

INN spoke with member newsrooms to explore what happens when a newsroom faces a defamation lawsuit, with or without media liability insurance.