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May 14, 2026
How CT Mirror became a Pulitzer-winning newsroom
Invest in business operations, stay in your lane and show the real impact of your journalism, says CT Mirror's Bart Putterman.
April 4, 2025
How INN is developing AI-powered products to broaden members’ reach
INN is building a “new kind of news network,” that “ensures all people in every community have access to trusted news.”
January 31, 2025
How to shamelessly self-promote your nonprofit newsroom
Standing out as a newsroom is hard. Getting your work seen can be even harder. Ken Schneck, editor of The Buckeye Flame, is a big fan of “shameless self-promotion” of his newsroom and the work it does.
October 21, 2024
Stronger Together: Mergers and partnerships in nonprofit news
“I like to say, we don’t compete, we complete.” That’s how Ron Smith, executive director of the Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service, describes his newsroom’s long standing relationship with the statewide […]
August 22, 2024
Newsrooms are finding new ways to build community, online and off
At INN’s conference at CUNY’s Craig Newmark School of Journalism, INN members explored the challenges in the post-platform era of news.
May 9, 2024
How to pitfall-proof newsroom collaborations
Picture this: A group of newsrooms marshal their resources to embark on a new collaboration. The project manager has done everything right, from setting goals to establishing communication expectations and […]
April 10, 2024
Local donors help nonprofit news outlets weather ‘a very tough climate’
In the fall of 2022, Arizona Luminaria, a digital local news outlet, launched in Tucson. It aimed to inform residents about local and state issues, with a focus on immigrant […]
October 16, 2023
Surveys are the easiest (and cheapest) tool to get more out of your audiences
In today’s rapidly evolving media landscape, understanding news audiences’ preferences, behaviors and opinions has become paramount for media organizations seeking to effectively engage and retain readers. Surveys are an essential […]
September 29, 2023
Interest in news is down. The time to find your audience has never been better.
It’s not your fault. Maybe your news organization hasn’t heard that yet, but you certainly deserve to.
July 13, 2023
Eight practices lead to revenue sustainability for these statewide nonprofit news outlets
Last month INN reported in the INN Index Snapshot that state and regional outlets are behind much of the nonprofit news sector’s revenue gains, growing their median revenue by 36% in a […]
August 31, 2022
How are nonprofit newsrooms translating coverage to better serve their audiences?
Four outlets share advice for other publishers. Over the last year, INN’s research team has been on a mission to better understand how nonprofit news organizations are serving communities of color. […]
December 6, 2021
Our startup built an audience engagement strategy and exceeded fundraising goals
I applied for the Emerging Leaders Council (ELC) at the Institute for Nonprofit News about a year after my partner and I co-founded Prison Journalism Project, an independent, non-partisan, national initiative that trains […]
August 10, 2021
Three ways nonprofit news outlets can grow individual giving in 2021 and beyond
The annual INN Index report on the state of nonprofit news, released in June, uncovered a surprising trend: despite 2020 being a year of crises, nonprofit news outlets grew by […]
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