Get answers to frequently asked questions about your INN membership. 

INN MEMBER PORTAL: Log into INN’s member database to update your organization’s profile, manage communications preferences, pay dues, post a job, and connect with peers and access other benefits.

Not yet a member? Explore membership.

How do I:

• Pay dues or update my organization’s profile?
• Contact an INN staffer?
• Find services and programs?
• Register for events?
• Use the listserv?
• Join our Slack channels?
• Share a job opening?
• Subscribe to INN newsletters?
• Submit an item for INN newsletters?
• Access members-only content?
• Get the INN Network member badge?
• Access the Who’s your source? Communications Toolkit
• Obtain legal advice?

Pay dues or update my organization’s online profile?

Follow these instructions to log into the INN Member Portal to renew your organization’s membership or update your profile on FindYourNews.org. If you experience trouble accessing your organizational account, please contact login@inn.org.

Contact an INN staffer?

The INN staff is here for you. To find the person best positioned to answer your specific question, please view our Office Hours with INN Staff page, where you can sign up for meetings or email one of us directly.

Find services and programs?

Visit the INN Resources Database to search available tools, services, and other resources available to INN members. You’ll find highly valuable benefits like wealth screening services, fiscal sponsorship, internship placement, and more. See a broken link or have an idea for a service we should add? Email services@inn.org with your suggestions.

Register for events?

Check out scheduled member events and webinars on the inn.org Events calendar. If you are logged into the INN Member Portal, you can also browse there for events of interest.

Use the listserv?

Ask questions, share opportunities and discuss ideas with people at all of INN’s member organizations via our email listserv. For more targeted communications, try INN’s peer communities on Slack. To be added to the listserv, submit your contact info. 

Users of the INN listserv agree to build environments that are welcoming, supportive and free of harassment. Review our Community Terms of Use here.

Join our Slack channels?

Want to talk with people who have similar jobs or work at organizations that are similar to yours? Tell us about yourself and we’ll add you to the Peer Community Slack channels that interest you. 

• Dos Mundos: newsrooms publishing or producing content in Spanish or bilingually
• Local Focus: newsrooms covering their local community
• News Fundraising Community: development professionals in journalism
• Single-Topic: newsrooms focused on one-topic, i.e. environment, health, education
• Startups: newsrooms in the early stages of development
• Statehouse: newsrooms focused on covering their state government
• Business Operations: COOs and others leading operations
• Photography: photographers, photo editors and others with a hand in photography
• Tech Stars: a place to talk newsroom-related technology
• Midwest: newsrooms in the great Midwest
• Rural: newsrooms covering rural communities and topics

Users of INN Slack channels agree to build environments that are welcoming, supportive and free of harassment. Review our Community Terms of Use here.

Share a job opening?

Through INN’s Career Center, members can post a job for free. Log into the Member Portal, navigate to the employer tab, and then click “Post a Job.” Once you publish the description, we’ll keep it up for 30 days and promote it in our INNovation newsletter that reaches about 7,000 people interested in nonprofit news.

Subscribe to INN newsletters?

If you work for an INN member organization, you can log into the INN Member Portal and update “Communications Preferences” to opt into the member-exclusive Notebook newsletter — our Monday round-up of the best resources for newsrooms – as well as other offerings.

Not a member? Please subscribe to INNovation, our industry newsletter covering the field of public service journalism.

Submit an item for INN newsletters?

To suggest content, please share your news and we’ll try to mention it in one of our newsletters or INN’s social media platforms.

Access members-only content?

If you don’t yet have a personal user profile, email login@inn.org to receive a link that will allow you to set up a username and password.

Get access to the INN Network member badge?

Let your audiences know that you are a member of INN!

The INN Network Member Badge helps your organization show audiences and funders that you uphold INN’s high standards of journalistic quality, editorial independence and transparency.

Display the badge in your website’s footer (recommended) or About section, linking it to our Nonprofit News & the INN Network page, where supporters can learn more about the values you share with your peers.

Access the Who’s your source? Communications Toolkit

Fill out the form on this page to access our free, adaptable set of communications resources designed to raise awareness and engagement with nonprofit news. The toolkit includes a Google Slides presentation and advertisements.

Obtain legal advice?

INN has gathered content to support your newsroom’s legal needs. If you would like a copy of our most recent memo on the political considerations of running a nonprofit news organization, please contact membership@inn.org.