December 12, 2025
New partnerships will be vital as INN focuses on policy work and public awareness in 2026.
December 11, 2025
Graduate journalism students explore audience-building and community engagement with the Institute for Nonprofit News.
December 5, 2025
INN's 2025 Audience Fellow Peter Heckendorn reflects on his nine-month tenure working with newsrooms across the Network.
September 19, 2025
Over the past year, INN has interviewed 12 individuals for In Other News — from a former ad sales rep to a Yosemite first responder. Read the highlights.
May 1, 2025
Nonprofit news has evolved into a viable model to support local journalism at scale — the problem is that while the models are there, the people are not. This is Jonathan Kealing's call to action.
January 24, 2025
By Karen Rundlet, CEO & Executive Director, INN The show at the local theatre likely won’t make national headlines. Neither will the city council’s plans to repair the potholes you hit on your daily commute. But both stories are examples of meaningful community news that often gets short shrift. As local newspapers continue to shutter […]
January 10, 2025
Editor’s note: Every year, INN brings in a young audience person as a fellow and helps them develop the skills and perspective to think strategically about what a nonprofit news organization needs to do to grow its audience. Jasmyne Ricard came to us from the Marshall Project well equipped to thrive in the planned trajectory […]
November 22, 2024
In Democracy without Journalism: Confronting the Misinformation Society, media scholar Victor Pickard argues that news is a public good in the neoclassical economic sense: “One person’s consumption of the good does not detract from another’s” and some people will be “free riders” who consume the good but expect others to pay for it. Pickard also argues […]
June 11, 2024
INN’s CEO Karen Rundlet prepared these remarks to open the INN Days conference in San Diego on June 11, 2024. I attended my first INN Days as a very new journalism funder back in 2016. It was shortly after I’d spent a decade at a major metro, living through layoffs and salary reductions, and becoming […]
April 5, 2024
Editor’s note: In 2023, the Institute for Nonprofit News welcomed Allison Altshule as its first audience research fellow, and I mistakenly thought her work here would be relatively straightforward. The challenge was obvious: There were a growing number of news organizations facing strategic challenges around increasing their audience and a lack of people who saw […]
From local news to in-depth reporting on pressing global issues, INN’s 500 members tell stories that otherwise would go untold – connecting communities, holding the powerful accountable, and strengthening civic life.
