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June 16, 2026
Let’s connect with audiences: Opening remarks at INN Days
Karen Rundlet kicks off INN Days 2026 in Pittsburgh, PA, June 16.

October 19, 2021
In nonprofit news, efforts to track diversity move forward
A national headline ran across the country last week: “Efforts to track diversity in journalism are lagging” (AP). But it’s only partly true. Many legacy and commercial newspapers have balked […]

October 7, 2021
Busting the career ladder myth | Zapier
Something seemed very wrong with the way I’d been taught to think about my career progression. Like so many of us, I’d heard professional journeys described as climbing a ladder […]

April 19, 2021
An open letter to Substack
Photo by Morgan Housel on Unsplash Chris Best Co-Founder Substack Dear Chris, We’re big fans. So we want to say: Hey, you’re missing an opportunity! Thank you for Substack’s grant program […]

November 3, 2020
How finding and supporting real news is like voting
SkyPics Studio/Shutterstock.com We’re awash this year in a sea of propaganda and misinformation. Fake news sites, false reports, news-like stories selected and spun not to make us smarter, but to […]

September 9, 2020
I Left Journalism Because It Had a Problem with Race. I Came Back to Change It.
I left journalism 12 years ago, one of many “leavers” who had become disenchanted with the industry. I came back four years ago to join the Institute for Nonprofit News […]

May 6, 2020
The Rise and Fall and Rise of the News
Police and firefighters. Health care providers. Food producers. News reporters? When the federal government included news publishers and journalists in its list of “essential workers” critical to public safety in […]





