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Attendees mingle at INN Days 2024. Photo by Fabiola Lopez for INN
Mission Local reporters Heather Smith and Oscar Palma deliver free newspapers to residents. Photo by Abigail Vân Neely for Mission Local
Reporter Kavitha Cardoza interviews high school students about their participation in a vocational program in Elkhart, Indiana on January 28, 2025. Photo by Camilla Forte for The Hechinger Report
Maple Walker Lloyd of Block Club Chicago won Emerging Leader of the Year at the 2024 INNYs. Photo by Krys Alex for INN
Arizona Luminaria reporter John Washington fends off a curious cow during reporting for a story about bird flu. Michael McKisson for Arizona Luminaria
Main stage and crowd at INN Days 2024. Photo by Fabiola Lopez for INN

Letter from the CEO

Karen Rundlet photo

Karen Rundlet

Executive Director and CEO

May 2025

We sit at a critical juncture for facts, for accurate, up-to-date information and news as a public good. In 2025, we have seen efforts to undermine press freedom, the increased scrutiny of 501(c)(3) organizations, and federal funding cuts for INN’s public media members. The Institute for Nonprofit News (INN) has always delivered business support and education to our member newsrooms. And, at this moment, INN is focused on connecting member newsrooms to essential legal resources. INN has launched a press freedom and safety hub and collaborated with partners to offer webinars and one-on-one consultations to keep our members informed and protected. After all, INN champions the nonprofit news difference and the sector’s independence. 

We, at INN, continue to do the practical work of strengthening the field. But we don’t just want more nonprofit newsrooms, we want more resilient ones. We want nonprofit newsrooms with staying power; our aim is to help INN members increase their reach and their revenue. 

With the news industry facing big changes and funding uncertainty, we’re helping members diversify revenue and build stronger relationships with individual donors. INN’s NewsMatch, now in its tenth year, continues to be a major driver of this work. We’ve rolled out new programs to help newsrooms move from end-of-year fundraising to year-round  campaigns. We’ve built partnerships that deliver real results—like emergency grants for disaster reporting, tools for accurate election coverage, and hands-on fundraising guidance. In 2024 alone, INN invested over $14 million directly into newsrooms through NewsMatch, the Rural News Network, travel stipends, and audience programs.

All this work strengthens our network and helps our members deliver meaningful news to their communities. I’m inspired everyday by the innovation and collaboration I see across INN and its network. Together, we’re proving just how vital in-depth reporting, community coverage, and public service journalism are to a healthy society.

INN: Impact at a Glance

500+

Newsrooms in the INN Network
as of May 2025

INN newsrooms serve communities in 46 states, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, Mexico and Canada: 51% local, 26% state/regional and 24% national/global in scope. 

$14M

Direct support to the field
INN secured for members in 2024

9 out of 10 members received direct support from INN and its NewsMatch program in 2024; the median amount was $35,000.

>90%

Startup success rate
INN members operating 3 years after launch 

INN members that provided complete revenue information reported a median revenue that is up almost 11% from the previous year – and at its highest level since 2018.

500K

First time donors to NewsMatch 
since program inception


INN members tapped $7 million in matching funds to secure more than $55M from individuals plus 1,150 local matches during NewsMatch 2024 — the highest number in campaign history.

4,200

People working at INN Network organizations
excluding staff at public media stations

The digital-first members of the INN Network include 3,200 journalists, about the same number as Gannett or NPR

26,000

Media outlets re-publishing INN stories
aggregated across membership

INN members produce about 24,000 stories monthly and attract about 100M website visitors per month.

2024 Financials

Revenue for 2024 was $13.2 million, which reflects a one-time $8.1 million restricted investment from Google News Initiative toward member audience development training and implementation funds. INN received initial payments of this investment in Q4 2023 and the bulk of the remainder in 2024.  INN distributed 90% of those GNI funds to INN member newsrooms as direct investments.

Our cumulative reserve was $1.7 million, which is within best practice guidelines and ensures the continuation of member services in case of revenue volatility. Cumulative reserves are calculated as total cash and investments valued at year end, less amounts needed for immediate short-term operations. Totals exclude funds held on behalf of fiscally sponsored projects, which are broken out separately below.

All figures are preliminary and unaudited, rounded to nearest $1000.

Operating Revenue

Operating Expenses

In 2024, total revenue exceeded expenses by about $1.8 million. About 90% of INN’s 2024 expenses were directed to programming, of which over $7.2 million (57%) comprised direct support to member organizations, as well as stipends to INN member organization staff, fellows and interns, and service fees paid on their behalf.

NewsMatch Revenue
Each year, INN raises funds for NewsMatch, the collaborative fundraising program that benefits member news organizations. The Miami Foundation is the project’s fiscal manager. For the 2024 campaign year, INN secured a record $8 million from 21 foundations and directed $7 million (86%) in unrestricted support to INN members. The funds disbursed to news organizations through the 2024 NewsMatch campaign, excluding the GNI investment, exceeded INN’s 2024 budget.

Fiscal Sponsorship Programs

INN helps launch and support news organizations by providing fiscal sponsorship, a program under which INN serves as their 501(c)3 umbrella organization and handles their finances.

(Rounded to 000)

Sponsored Project Revenue$3,372,000
Sponsored Project Expenses$2,688,000
Funds Released to Exited FS Organizations$412,000

Full financials, tax filings, annual reports and audits can be found online at: https://inn.org/about/financials/

2024 Supporters

INN would like to thank the following 2024 institutional and individual supporters of our organization and programs. Please note: Less than 1% of INN’s grants and individual donor revenue came from anonymous sources.

Foundations

$1,000,000+

  • Google News Initiative
  • John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
  • John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

$500,000–999,000

  • Democracy Fund
  • Jonathan Logan Family Foundation
  • The Miami Foundation

$100,000-499,000

  • Columbia University
  • DAF Giving360 made possible by the Present Progressive Fund
  • Henry Luce Foundation
  • Microsoft
  • The Park Foundation

<  $100,000

  • Anonymous (1)
  • Arnold Ventures
  • Arthur Vining Davis Foundation
  • Ascendium Group
  • Field Foundation
  • Lenfest Foundation
NewsMatch Funders

Along with these major NewsMatch supporters, INN acknowledges and thanks the estimated 373,000+ individuals, as well as the 1,100 local companies, community foundations,  and other funders who together contributed more than $62 million to 381 INN member news organizations in the 2024 NewsMatch campaign. 

  • Anonymous
  • Barr Foundation
  • DAF Giving360 made possible by the Present Progressive Fund
  • Democracy Fund 
  • Heising-Simons Foundation 
  • Henry Luce Foundation
  • Inasmuch Foundation 
  • Independence Public Media Foundation
  • John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
  • John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
  • Jonathan Logan Family Foundation
  • Joyce Foundation
  • Kaphan Foundation 
  • Loud Hound
  • Maida Lynn
  • McKnight Foundation
  • The New York Times Company (in-kind)
  • Solidarity Giving
  • Tow Foundation
  • Walton Family Foundation
  • William and Flora Hewlett Foundation 
  • Wyncote Foundation
Corporate Sponsors
  • Associated Press
  • BlueLena
  • Canva
  • Google News Initiative
  • Justworks
  • MajorDonors.com
  • The Maynard Institute for Journalism Education
  • News Revenue Hub
  • SmartNews Inc
  • Newspack
  • New York Times
  • Reporters Shield
  • The Rippel Foundation
  • Rolli LLC
Individual Supporters

$5,000+

  • Anonymous Donor (1)
  • Wendy Fearnside and Bruce Meier
  • Friedman Family Foundation
  • Mike Mills
  • David Miner
  • Albert and Candace Staton

 $1,000-$4,999

  • Anonymous Donor (1)
  • Helen Brauner
  • Sue Cross
  • Richard Delay
  • Matthew Hatoun
  • Benjamin Friedman
  • Lisa Gardner-Springer
  • Dr. Linda Ganzini
  • Hubbard Family Foundation
  • Jonathan Kealing
  • Lanny Levenson
  • Charles Lewis
  • Richard Meeder
  • Marcia Parker
  • Bruce Pedersen
  • Bruce Putterman
  • Stephanie Rogers
  • Stephanie Schenkel
  • David Schulman
  • Thomas Simonet
  • Tarbell Family Foundation
  • Bruce Theriault
  • Karin Winner
  • Hsiu Mei Wong
  • Jessica Yu

$500-$999

  • Anonymous Donor (1)
  • Norberto Santana
  • John Adams
  • Crystal Chen
  • Heidi Feldman
  • Phillip Hastings
  • Jerome Kelly
  • The Leadings Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation
  • Peter and Duane Muller
  • Mark Schubin
  • Peter Schulert
  • Kerry Smith

$100-$499

  • Anonymous (2)
  • Barbara Auerbach
  • Barbara Bovbjerg
  • Carolyn Cairns
  • Kathy Doto
  • Marilyn Dickey
  • Andrea Dobson
  • Patricia Fanning
  • Laura Frank
  • Spencer Graves
  • Ellen Greenberg
  • Lucas Grindley
  • Andy and Dee Hall
  • Alexander Hoffman
  • Mark Horvit
  • Brant Houston
  • Robert Hughes
  • Timothy Ingham
  • Naomi B. Isler
  • Nicholas Johnson
  • Rachel Kaplan
  • Cookie Krizmanich
  • Philip Lentz
  • Dave Martens
  • David Mednick
  • Betty Medsger
  • Carl and Diane Meier
  • Lawrence Meyer
  • Graciela Mochkofsky
  • F. Michael Montgomery
  • Mark Munns
  • Katherine Murphy
  • Matthew Nahan
  • Nathan Neal
  • Janice Newman
  • Diane Remin
  • Elaine Sacks
  • Michael Scott
  • Julia Sommer
  • Jessica Scully
  • William Smalzer
  • Ron Smith
  • Catherine Sullivan
  • Molly Uxa

2024 Highlights

Growing audiences for nonprofit news

GNI Fundamentals Lab for INN Members

Thanks to support from Google News Initiative, INN provided $20,000 each to 315 newsrooms to help them grow their audience and reader revenue.

Photo by Mission Local

$7.8 million 

distributed to member newsrooms

INN actively encouraged us to participate in the Google News Initiative training series, which yielded multiple benefits to our organization. In addition to training in best practices for audience engagement, it led us to reactivate our long-dormant Google Ads grant and to engage a firm through TechSoup to maximize the use of the ad grants. An added bonus: our GNI trainer grew so interested in our organization’s mission and work that he joined our board of directors, and now serves as Treasurer.

— Diana Schemo

Executive Editor, 100Reporters

We’re incredibly proud of the GNI Fundamentals Lab’s impact on local news. Working with INN, we’ve seen how a boost in digital skills and sustainable practices can truly energize nonprofit newsrooms. It’s fantastic to see these critical journalism and community organizations thrive, and it underscores our commitment to a healthy, vibrant news ecosystem.

— Chrissy Towle

Director of Association and Local News Partnerships, Google

Understanding the field

Audience & Distribution Report

INN released the first ever comprehensive look into the challenges and changes facing the field to build and maintain audiences. 

Image by Institute for Nonprofit News

66%

INN outlets whose email newsletters increased from 2021-2023

INN Index data are valuable in building a case for support with individual donors and foundations alike, shedding light on the scale and scope of both the contraction of the for-profit news landscape and the successes and solutions arising from nonprofit news organizations and networks.

— Daniel Kenah

Development Director, WyoFile

Connecting and celebrating peers

470

attendees at INN Days 2024

INN Days 2024

News leaders, funders, and innovators from 291 organizations gathered for INN’s annual conference in San Diego.

Photo by Fabiola Lopez

It was both the great achievement and the promise for the future that the growth of nonprofit news represents that most struck me during the [INN Days] conference.

— Isaiah Thompson

Editor, Leadership, Nonprofit Quarterly

626

entries for the 2024 Nonprofit News Awards

2024 INNYs

The Nonprofit News Awards, or INNYs, honor excellence in journalism, leadership and community service across the field of nonprofit news, and recognize what differentiates nonprofit news – values like collaboration, innovation and impact.

Photo by Krys Alex from INNYs 2024

Building broader awareness of nonprofit news

3,000+

people followed In Other News, the LinkedIn newsletter INN launched in July to share conversations on careers in nonprofit news beyond editorial work

FindYourNews.org

In 2024, INN refined and retooled its public facing member directory to include ways to search by city, better enabling our web audiences to find an INN member nonprofit news outlet serving their community.

INN is a Local News Grantee and a critical partner in the MacArthur Foundation’s Big Bet investment in local news across the country. They address core sustainability challenges in local news, and their technical resources, collaborative network-building, and capacity development align perfectly with our strategic priorities. By strengthening the infrastructure that connects the entire field, INN helps us make more informed investments while creating pathways for newsrooms to achieve long-term sustainability and greater impact.

— Silvia Rivera

Director Local News, MacArthur Foundation

Leveraging investments for sustainability

NewsMatch

More than 375,000 people supported INN newsrooms through NewsMatch in 2024, more than 75,000 for the first time. Local match funding secured by newsrooms exceeded the national match for the third year in a row — suggesting that communities are stepping up to support the news they need.

Photo by The Maine Monitor

$8M

largest-ever pooled fund raised from 21 funders for NewsMatch

The Barr Foundaton had been one of those funders thinking, ‘We’re really not a journalism funder.’ At the same time, we were growing increasingly concerned about the state of local news and impressed by how important strong local news can be to the communities we care about … NewsMatch was exactly the partner we hoped to find.

— Stefan Lanfer

Communications Director, Barr Foundation

NewsMatch has been transformative, helping our small organization build a substantial small dollar fundraising program.

— Nicco Mele

Co-founder, The Lexington Observer

43,000

donor names screened for giving potential on behalf of INN members.

Wealth Screening

INN performed over 60 free or subsidized wealth screenings for our members last year. These evaluate a donor’s financial capability to give to an organization and are a critical part of the journey to cultivating major donors.

Photo by Investigate Midwest

*A previous version of this Impact Report stated that INN screened over 200k donor names. We apologize for this incorrect number.

INN’s staff has been incredibly helpful in connecting our newsroom with funding resources like matching opportunities, capacity building programs, and donor outreach tools like wealth analysis. We have benefited from NewsMatch multiple years in a row, and have been able to participate in the Google News Initiative Fundamentals Lab and the wealth screening process thanks to INN. We love being a member!

— Maximilian Eyle

Executive Director, Central Current

Developing Sustainable Collaborations

Photo by Gary Kauffman for The Xylom

INN’s Rural News Network is more than the sum of its parts, and is a critical program to fulfill INN’s mission of ensuring that people in all communities have access to trusted news. 

Journalists participating in INN’s Rural News Network (RNN) experience collaboration in many ways — through reporting partnerships that enable them to cover topics and populations ignored by traditional media, through internships designed to expand the pipeline of journalists in rural America, content aggregation that allows them to reach a broader audience and funding that allows their newsrooms to keep going — even where local donors are scarce.

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RNN collaborations last year investigated rural healthcare facilities’ struggles to meet minimum federal staffing requirements. They examined some unique challenges for Black, Hispanic and Indigenous people in rural communities, like racial discrimination in real estate. 

Reporters also examined disparities in higher education and exposed how slavery directly contributed to Issaquena County, Mississippi having one of the lowest rates of educational attainment in the nation.

This high quality coverage focusing on rural America bucks journalism industry trends of shuttering newsrooms, minimal investigative reporting, dwindling local journalism, and the emergence of “ghost newspapers,” a term that means newspapers that publish virtually no original content. 

The collaborations, a hallmark of RNN, facilitate news outlets working together to report on topics and populations that might otherwise be ignored by news media and include funding to cover reporting costs, travel, audience engagement and data analysis. 

INN offers other resources, partnerships and tools to support the financial and editorial success of  INN members in rural America. TextRural is one example. INN launched the SMS-based news curation service in 2024 to make rural news outlets’ reporting — almost 5,000 stories a month — more accessible, especially in regions where broadband access is unreliable or non-existent.

RNN is also focused on the future of rural journalism. Earlier this year, INN partnered with the Scripps Howard Fund and the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting to expand a rural reporting internship program. And in 2024, INN created a pooled NewsMatch fund specifically to benefit our rural-serving newsrooms.

INN’s Rural News Network has been invaluable to us in several ways. The text service has enabled us to expand our audience reach easily, allowing us to distribute news to readers in the way they prefer. We’re also deeply grateful for the Rural News Network’s funding, which helps us serve underserved communities.

— Kimberly Griffin

Publisher and Chief Revenue Officer, Mississippi Free Press

Activating Collective Fundraising

As INN continues to support members with resources for a sound, long-term future, the INN team is doubling down on online fundraising for collective impact.

INN members’ interest in learning about collective fundraising spurred the 23-page Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Guide to Collective Fundraising, developed with the nonprofit social enterprise Creative Mind. The guide provides step-by-step instructions, insights, tools and other information about developing collaborative fundraising campaigns among multiple news organizations as it walks through establishing systems, processes and structures needed to jointly raise and manage funds.

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The guide is just one example of how INN listens to and acts on member feedback about fundraising needs, helping our newsrooms expand and evolve in a competitive market for audience attention and financial support. 

Member feedback inspires and informs our approach to NewsMatch, a signature program heading into its 10th year. The INN team helps news organizations supercharge year-end NewsMatch campaigns— with matching dollars, training and templates. Every year, INN uses member feedback to inform the type of training and resources we provide as well as to streamline application and reporting processes for members. INN has been proud to guide newsrooms as they generate community support through INN’s year-end NewsMatch campaign. We believe newsrooms can utilize the same NewsMatch supports and practices throughout the year in order to increase audience engagement.  

New in 2024: INN piloted two initiatives to help member newsrooms leverage opportunities for community giving outside the year-end NewsMatch campaign: a collaboration with the Center for Cooperative Media on U.S. Democracy Day, through which members were offered a $500 match from NewsMatch to spark community giving, and a partnership with the McKnight Foundation to make matching gifts on Wisconsin’s Give to the Max Day.

It’s hard to overstate the impact of NewsMatch. When VTDigger was smaller, it gave us our first matches and helped our membership program develop and expand. As a larger sustaining organization now, we have less access to funding from foundations that want to invest in startups – but we still need to fundraise more than ever. NewsMatch has grown and shifted with us.

— Libbie Sparadeo

Director of Membership and Engagement, VTDigger

The State of Audience in Nonprofit News

Photo by Brandon Cruz González for Centro de Periodismo Investigativo

We know that nonprofit news outlets must engage and grow audiences to remain viable, so how are INN member news organizations growing and measuring the communities they serve? 

Between October 2024 and April 2025, INN published key insights around audience strategies, including how INN newsrooms define, grow and serve direct and third-party audiences.

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INN’s Audience & Distribution Index Report 2024 captures 346 newsroom responses to survey questions about audience and distribution. Insights from the survey participants show promising signs that contrast with the volatile outlook of the news industry overall—and offer key opportunities for improvement.

One positive sign is that some nonprofit news outlets said they are seeing growth in web audiences. Although monthly unique visitors to nonprofit news sites are trending downward, 4 in 10 outlets grew web traffic. The news outlets experiencing that growth are more likely to be local, smaller, and younger.

However, a growth-related challenge INN members face is finding ways to accurately and consistently measure reach and impact—data that could catalyze fundraising and membership growth. Nonprofit news organizations can better measure their audience reach and impact on platforms they own, directly engaging and growing audiences on their own websites, email lists and social media channels. (Few of the survey respondents indicated they found consistent ways to measure readership on third-party platforms.)

The survey responses indicate that increasing direct distribution could help news outlets address their audience woes. Yet for the vast majority of news outlets surveyed, marketing remains a tiny portion of their overall budget. Those news outlets that report spending any portion of their budget on marketing tend to generate more revenue than organizations that spend nothing on marketing.

Every day, INN Network members produce meaningful content that informs and engages communities, and  drives impact. The content production is staggering: 24,000 stories produced each month, and distributed to over 26,000 media outlets. Our challenge ahead is to help member newsrooms build trust in their communities and, at the same time, build direct audiences while ultimately increasing audience revenue.

Thanks to the INN’s audience survey bootcamp, The Shoestring was able to conduct audience research for the first time. It was a steep learning curve, but I feel prepared to make a much stronger audience survey this year.

— Brian Zayatz

Managing editor, The Shoestring

The INN Index is an indispensable resource for understanding the growth of the nonprofit news field. As a national funder, we look to the Index to help us learn about the evolving needs of the sector, track progress over time, and identify strategic opportunities. The comprehensive data and smart analysis in the Index are showing the way to the next chapter for nonprofit news.

— Christine Schmidt

Senior Program Associate, News & Info Ecosystems, Democracy Fund

Lookahead

Nonprofit news in an age of unprecedented political and technological disruption

INN’s mission has evolved since its founding in 2009 as a 27-member collective focused on investigative news to its evolution into a 500+ member network of nonprofit news organizations across North America, including in Canada, Mexico and Puerto Rico.

Today, INN champions and protects the field. Our members deliver in-depth explanatory reporting, community coverage, in-person gatherings, accurate data and investigative journalism – all as a public service. These outlets keep our larger society and our smaller communities informed and connected. 

INN will double down on programming successes and innovate, too. Building on the success of INN’s NewsMatch, we’ll support year-round fundraising strategies. We’ll continue to bring INN Index data to life through our Pods benchmarking program for member newsrooms. 

Artificial intelligence is a game changer for the field and the profession. INN has supported members by identifying efficiencies and innovative approaches where AI can serve their teams and enhance public service reporting. During 2024, INN partnered with the Associated Press, Microsoft, and Google News Initiative to boost the reach of election coverage, engage new audiences, and facilitate meaningful collaborations. Moving forward, INN will  cultivate relationships with new allies, including like-minded nonprofits.

The current political and economic climate is unpredictable. As INN develops and expands programming and resources to best meet our members’ needs in this deeply uncertain period, one thing won’t change: our commitment to membership standards. Not everyone can be an INN member. INN’s rigorous membership standards and vetting are a stamp of approval that elevates financial transparency, original reporting, and editorial independence as values and practices of our members. These standards are constants and are essential to building community and trust in a climate of rampant misinformation and disinformation.

In 2025 and beyond, INN has and will continue to serve the INN Network with the resources they need, to shore up their operations, increase their reach and revenue, and show up for their communities day in and day out.

Current Members

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 democracy.

EXPLORE NEWSROOMS

The following is a list of INN Network newsrooms; some members produce more than one title.

National/Global

Global

  • 100Reporters
  • Anthropocene Magazine
  • Center for Collaborative Investigative Journalism
  • Circle of Blue
  • Coda Story
  • Compiler
  • Critical State
  • El hilo podcast
  • Global Press Journal
  • Global Reporting Centre
  • Hey Alma
  • Hothouse
  • Inkstick
  • Jewish Currents
  • Jewish Telegraphic Agency
  • Kveller
  • Mongabay
  • My Jewish Learning
  • New Narratives partners
  • Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP)
  • PassBlue
  • PBS NewsHour
  • Pulitzer Center
  • Radio Ambulante
  • Reasons to be Cheerful
  • Religion News Service
  • Religion Unplugged
  • Rest of World
  • Sapan News Network
  • Science News
  • Science News for Students
  • The Dial
  • The Examination
  • The Fuller Project
  • The GroundTruth Project
  • The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
  • The New Humanitarian
  • The New York Jewish Week
  • The Nosher
  • The Reporters Inc.
  • The World
  • The Xylom
  • Things That Go Boom
  • Threshold
  • Type Investigations
  • U.S. Right to Know
  • Unsettled
  • WhoWhatWhy.org
  • The Real News Project Inc.
  • Yale Climate Connections
  • Yale Environment 360
  • Zivvy News

National

  • An Arm and a Leg
  • Arnolt Center for Investigative Journalism
  • Barn Raiser
  • Bokeh Focus
  • Bolts
  • Capital B
  • CatchLight
  • Center for Health Journalism
  • Chalkbeat
  • Civil Eats
  • Current
  • Daily Yonder
  • Economic Hardship Reporting Project
  • EdSurge
  • Energy News Network
  • Feet in 2 Worlds
  • Floodlight
  • Food & Environment Reporting Network
  • Food Bank News
  • Fresh Take Georgia
  • Futuro Media
  • Grist
  • H2O Radio
  • Hunter Index
  • ICT Indian Country Today
  • In These Times
  • Inside Climate News
  • Investigative Journalism Foundation
  • Investigative Project on Race and Equity
  • Investigative Reporting Workshop
  • Invisible Institute
  • Making Contact
  • MindSite News
  • Mother Jones
  • MuckRock
  • National Catholic Reporter
  • National Parks Traveler
  • Next City
  • NOTUS
  • Open Campus
  • OpenSecrets
  • palabra.
  • PolitiFact
  • Prism
  • Prison Journalism Project
  • ProPublica
  • Public Health Watch
  • Red Canary Magazine
  • Retro Report
  • Reveal
  • Science Friday
  • Sentient
  • Shelterforce
  • Sludge
  • Solitary Watch
  • The 19th
  • The 74
  • The Appeal
  • The Chronicle of Philanthropy
  • The Conversation U.S.
  • The Emancipator
  • The Forward
  • The Hechinger Report
  • The Imprint
  • The Intercept
  • The Juvenile Justice Information Exchange
  • The Marshall Project
  • The Nonprofit Quarterly
  • The Objective
  • The Sick Times
  • The Trace
  • The War Horse News
  • Tradeoffs
  • Votebeat
  • Washington Monthly
  • YES! Magazine
State/Regional

Alaska 

  • CoastAlaska 

Arizona

  • Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting
  • Arizona Luminaria
  • Conecta Arizona
  • LOOKOUT Publications

British Columbia

  • The Narwhal

California

  • California Health Report
  • CalMatters
  • The Markup
  • CALÓ NEWS
  • Capital & Main
  • EdSource
  • SJV Water

Colorado

  • Big Pivots
  • Colorado News Collaborative
  • High Country News
  • The Water Desk

Connecticut

  • Connecticut Mirror
  • Connecticut Public

District of Columbia (D.C.)

  • Pasquines

Delaware

  • Delaware Public Media
  • Spotlight Delaware

Florida

  • Jacksonville Today
  • The Florida Trident
  • The Marjorie

Georgia

  • Capitol Beat
  • The Current

Hawaii

  • Honolulu Civil Beat

Illinois

  • Borderless Magazine
  • Capitol News Illinois
  • Change Agents Podcast
  • Illinois Answers Project
  • Investigate Midwest

Indiana

  • The Indiana Citizen

Kansas

  • The Journal

Kentucky

  • Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting
  • Kentucky Health News
  • Northern Kentucky Tribune

Louisiana

  • The Garrison Project

Massachusetts

  • Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism

Maryland

  • MarylandReporter.com
  • The Baltimore Banner

Maine

  • Amjambo Africa
  • The Maine Monitor

Michigan

  • Bridge Michigan

Minnesota

  • Access Press
  • MinnPost
  • Project Optimist
  • Sahan Journal

Missouri

  • Mississippi River Basin Ag & Water Desk
  • The Beacon News

Mississippi

  • Mississippi Free Press
  • Mississippi Today

Montana

  • Four Points Media
  • Montana Free Press
  • Mountain Journal

Nebraska

  • Flatwater Free Press

Nevada

  • Nevada Public Radio
  • Sierra Nevada Ally
  • The Nevada Independent

New Hampshire

  • collaborativenh.org
  • NH Center for Public Interest Journalism-InDepthNH.org

New Jersey

  • CivicStory
  • NJ Spotlight News
  • Public Square Amplified
  • The Jersey Vindicator

New Mexico

  • New Mexico In Depth
  • Searchlight New Mexico

New York

  • Adirondack Explorer
  • Delaware Currents
  • New York Focus

North Carolina

  • Carolina Public Press
  • Enlace Latino NC
  • North Carolina Health News
  • Scalawag

North Dakota

  • Buffalo’s Fire
  • North Dakota News Cooperative

Ohio

  • Belt Magazine
  • The Buckeye Flame
  • Signal Ohio

Oklahoma

  • KOSU
  • NonDoc Media
  • Oklahoma Watch
  • The Frontier

Oregon

  • Columbia Insight
  • Highway 58 Herald
  • Oregon Journalism Project
  • Street Roots
  • The Lund Report
  • Underscore Native News
  • Uplift Local

Pennsylvania

  • Chesapeake Bay Journal
  • PBS39, WLVR 91.3
  • Spotlight PA
  • WESA
  • WHYY News, BillyPenn at WHYY, Plan Philly
  • WVIA News

Puerto Rico

  • Centro de Periodismo Investigativo

Rhode Island

  • ecoRI News
  • The Hummel Report
  • Rhode Island Spotlight

South Dakota

  • South Dakota News Watch

Texas

  • Borderzine
  • The Texas Observer
  • The Texas Tribune

Utah

  • Amplify Utah Media Literacy
  • Corner Post
  • The Insider
  • The Salt Lake Tribune
  • The Utah Investigative Journalism Project

Virginia

  • Cardinal News

Vermont

  • VTDigger.org

Washington

  • Cascade PBS
  • InvestigateWest

Wisconsin

  • MIWISCONSIN.ORG
  • The Badger Project
  • Wisconsin Watch
  • Milwuakee Neighborhood News Service

West Virginia

  • 100 Days in Appalachia
  • Mountain State Spotlight

Wyoming

  • WyoFile
Local

Alaska 

  • KHNS News
  • Mat-Su Sentinel
  • Turnagain News

Alabama

  • BirminghamWatch

Arizona

  • Conecta Arizona
  • Patagonia Regional Times
  • Stocktonia News Service
  • Tucson Sentinel

British Columbia

  • Tri-Cities Dispatch

California

  • AfroLA
  • Alameda Neighborhoods News
  • Alameda Post
  • Bay Nature
  • BenitoLink.com
  • Berkeleyside
  • Boyle Heights Beat/Radio Pulso (podcast)
  • ChicoSol
  • DanvilleSanRamon.com
  • El Tecolote
  • El Tímpano
  • Fresnoland
  • India Currents
  • inewsource
  • KPBS
  • KQED
  • Livermore Vine
  • LocalNewsMatters.org
  • Long Beach Post
  • Los Angeles Public Press
  • Mission Local
  • Mountain View Voice
  • Oakland Voices
  • Open Vallejo
  • Palo Alto Weekly
  • Pleasanton Weekly
  • Redwood City Pulse
  • Richmondside
  • San Francisco Public Press
  • San José Spotlight
  • San Quentin News
  • Shasta Scout
  • Stocktonia News Service
  • Street Spirit
  • The Almanac
  • The Frisc
  • The Mendocino Voice
  • The Merced FOCUS
  • The Oaklandside
  • The People’s Vanguard of Davis
  • The Riverside Record
  • Times of San Diego
  • Voice of OC
  • Voice of San Diego
  • Voices of Monterey Bay
  • WitnessLA

Colorado

  • Ark Valley Voice
  • Aspen Journalism
  • Boulder Reporting Lab
  • Pikes Peak Bulletin
  • Sentinel Colorado
  • The Colorado Sun
  • The Sopris Sun
  • el Sol del Valle

Connecticut

  • NancyOnNorwalk
  • New Haven Independent
  • The Kent Good Times Dispatch
  • The Lakeville Journal and The Millerton News
  • Valley Independent Sentinel
  • WNHH FM

District of Columbia (D.C.)

  • D.C. Witness
  • SpotlightDC
  • Street Sense
  • The 51st
  • The DC Line

Florida

  • Coconut Grove Spotlight
  • Florida Bulldog
  • Key Biscayne Independent (Miami Fourth Estate)
  • LkldNow
  • Oviedo Community News
  • Stet News Palm Beach
  • Suncoast Searchlight
  • The Tributary
  • VoxPopuli
  • Winter Park Voice

Georgia

  • Atlanta Civic Circle
  • Atlanta Community Press Collective
  • Canopy Atlanta
  • The Atlanta Voice
  • The Macon Newsroom
  • The Oglethorpe Echo
  • The Red & Black
  • WABE 90.1 FM

Illinois

  • Austin Weekly News
  • Block Club Chicago
  • Chicago Reader
  • Cicero Independiente
  • City Bureau NFP
  • Evanston RoundTable
  • Forest Park Review
  • Galesburg Community News
  • Injustice Watch
  • Riverside Brookfield Landmark
  • South Side Weekly, Hyde Park Herald
  • The Harvey World Herald
  • The Record North Shore
  • WCBU 89.9 FM and WCBU.org
  • Wednesday Journal
  • WGLT 89.1 FM and WGLT.org

Indiana

  • Limestone Post Magazine
  • Mirror Indy
  • The Owen News

Kentucky

  • CivicLex
  • Hoptown Chronicle
  • The Murray Sentinel

Louisiana

  • The Current Media
  • The Lens
  • Verite

Massachusetts

  • Belmont Voice
  • Brookline.News
  • CommonWealth Beacon
  • H-W News
  • Ipswich Local News
  • Lexington Observer
  • Lower Cape News, ArtsLight, Coast + Climate
  • Marblehead Current
  • Needham Observer
  • Neighborhood View
  • Newton Beacon
  • Swampscott Tides
  • The Acton Exchange
  • The Bedford Citizen
  • The Concord Bridge
  • The Frame – Framingham News In Focus
  • The New Bedford Light
  • The Shoestring
  • The Waltham Times
  • The Worcester Guardian
  • Wavelengths
  • WHAV
  • Weston Observer
  • Winchester News
  • YourArlington

Maryland

  • Baltimore Beat
  • Baltimore Brew
  • Baltimore Witness
  • Cecil Public Media
  • The College Park Here & Now
  • The Hyattsville Life & Times
  • The Laurel Independent

Maine

  • Harpswell Anchor
  • Peaks Island News

Michigan

  • BridgeDetroit
  • East Lansing Info
  • Flint Beat
  • Great Lakes Now, One Detroit
  • NowKalamazoo
  • Ottawa News Network
  • Outlier Media
  • Planet Detroit
  • Watershed Voice

Minnesota

  • Carver County Local News
  • Center for Broadcast Journalism and WEQY POWER104.7FM
  • Eden Prairie Local News
  • KAXE
  • Prior Lake News Compass
  • Root River Current
  • Woodbury News Net

Missouri

  • Columbia Missourian
  • Springfield Daily Citizen
  • The Kansas City Defender
  • The Northeast News

Montana

  • Four Points Press
  • The Pulp

New Jersey

  • Bernardsville News
  • Chatham Courier
  • Echoes-Sentinel
  • Florham Park Eagle
  • Hanover Eagle
  • Hunterdon Review
  • Madison Eagle
  • Montclair Local
  • Morris NewsBee
  • Mount Olive Chronicle
  • Observer-Tribune
  • Randolph Reporter
  • Roxbury Register
  • The Citizen
  • The Jersey Bee
  • The Progress

New York

  • Central Current
  • City Limits
  • Documented
  • Investigative Post
  • Ithaca Times
  • NepYork.com
  • New Pine Plains Herald
  • Peekskill Herald
  • The Pelham Examiner
  • Rochester Beacon
  • THE CITY
  • The Daily Catch
  • The Highlands Current
  • The Ithaca Voice
  • The Overlook
  • The Recorder
  • The Yonkers Ledger
  • WNYC

North Carolina

  • Asheville Watchdog
  • Blue Ridge Public Radio
  • Border Belt Independent
  • Down in the County
  • Plateau Daily News
  • Shoreside News
  • The 9th Street Journal
  • The Daily Tar Heel
  • WFAE

Ohio

  • Athens County Independent
  • Matter News
  • Oxford Free Press
  • Signal Akron
  • Signal Cincinnati
  • Signal Cleveland
  • The Cleveland Observer
  • The Land
  • The Toledo Free Press

Oklahoma

  • Tulsa Local News Initiative

Oregon

  • Ashland.news
  • The Applegater
  • Uplift Local

Pennsylvania

  • Armchair Lehigh Valley
  • Bucks County Herald
  • Hidden City Daily
  • PublicSource
  • Resolve Philly
  • The Allegheny Front
  • The Philadelphia Citizen
  • WITF

Rhode Island

  • East Greenwich News
  • PVD Eye

Tennessee

  • Institute for Public Service Reporting
  • MLK50: Justice Through Journalism
  • Nashville Banner
  • The Contributor

Texas

  • Austin Free Press
  • Austin Monitor
  • Austin Vida
  • Breckenridge Texan
  • Dallas Free Press
  • El Paso Matters
  • Fort Worth Report
  • KERA
  • Lake Highlands Advocate
  • Lakewood/East Dallas Advocate
  • Lubbock Lights
  • Mineral Wells Area News
  • Oak Cliff Advocate
  • Plano Magazine
  • Preston Hollow Advocate
  • San Antonio Report
  • The Amarillo Tribune
  • The Austin Bulldog

Utah

  • KPCW
  • West View Media

Virginia

  • Charlottesville Tomorrow
  • Fauquier Times
  • Fredericksburg Free Press
  • Loudoun Now
  • Prince William Times
  • Rappahannock News
  • The Richmonder
  • WHRO Public Media

Vermont

  • The Bridge
  • The Charlotte News
  • The Commons
  • The Hardwick Gazette
  • The Hinesburg Record
  • Waterbury Roundabout

Washington

  • Gig Harbor Now
  • Key Peninsula News
  • Lynnwood Today
  • MLTnews
  • My Edmonds News
  • Salish Current
  • The Jefferson County Beacon
  • The JOLT – The Journal of Olympia, Lacey & Tumwater

Wisconsin

  • Door County Knock
  • Isthmus Community Media
  • Madison365
  • The Lansing Journal
  • Tone Madison
  • Wausau Pilot & Review
  • WXPR Public Radio
Affiliates
  • American Association For The Advancement Of Science | SciLine
  • American Journalism Project
  • Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
  • G.W. Williams Center for Independent Journalism
  • get REAL News LLC
  • Gigafact Foundation
  • Global Investigative Journalism Network
  • Investigative Editing Corps
  • Investigative Reporters and Editors
  • Military Veterans in Journalism, Inc.
  • National Federation Of Community Broadcasters
  • News Ambassadors
  • News Revenue Hub
  • Pro News Coaches
  • Radio Club Collective
  • Sunlight Research Center
  • The Open Notebook
  • The Signals Network
  • Tiny News Collective Inc
  • Trans Journalists Association

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