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July 15, 2026
Securing local matches: A Q&A with Evanston RoundTable
Do your homework before your local match asks, advises Evanston RoundTable's Karen Demorest.
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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 […]
April 5, 2024
As an INN fellow, I saw nonprofit newsrooms’ engagement innovations firsthand
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 […]
March 22, 2024
Newly published research highlights how typical discussions of news media decline miss the mark
Anyone familiar with the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN) will not be surprised to hear that the traditional model of journalism has imploded, especially at the local level. But there is some […]
February 2, 2024
Stories from inside: Journalism as a path through and window into incarceration
In June 2023, Juan Moreno Haines was up for parole after 27 years of incarceration. He had a job lined up as editor-in-chief at Solitary Watch, a watchdog news organization […]
January 12, 2024
Hitting audience goals in 2024
The signs are increasingly clear that the pipelines for free organic audience growth are going to keep contracting over the next year. That means news organizations need to be savvier […]
January 8, 2024
Looking back, looking forward: two INN CEOs discuss the nonprofit news movement
Last week, I felt like I had two bosses: Sue Cross, the outgoing CEO of INN, who hired me at the start of the pandemic in 2020 and has overseen […]
December 21, 2023
Why trust is the cornerstone of news philanthropy
In this season centered on giving and connections with family and friends, I’ve been reflecting more on trust. Trust bonds people to each other, and people to the institutions that […]
December 14, 2023
INN predicts: Nonprofit news in 2024
INN staff indicate how they refer queries from member newsrooms to colleagues with the right expertise during our strategy retreat in July 2023. We all know and love that annual journalism […]
December 8, 2023
Three ways to build pathways to careers in nonprofit news
I think a lot about career pathways. Some people call them talent pipelines, but I prefer the idea of people negotiating professional journeys rather than being pumped through a tube. […]
November 20, 2023
What DEI in journalism looks like now: Three case studies explore lessons learned from nonprofit news organizations
Over the past few years, many companies and institutions have been moving away from simple “checkbox diversity” — a question of demographics — toward practices that focus on equity and […]
October 23, 2023
Opportunities to advance DEI in nonprofit news: What the INN Index tells us about progress made and…
For INN’s 2023 DEI Index Report, the median BIPOC-led outlet reported that 56% of foundation dollars received in 2022 were available for general operating expenses, compared to 70% among white-led […]
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