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Today the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN) is launching the News Giving Roadmap — a unique, comprehensive program designed to expand the capacity of our members to build sustainable revenue from individual donors including annual gifts, mid-range gifts, major gifts and planned giving.
Read MoreStarting in September, CrowdTangle will provide INN members with access to programs, resources, and 1:1 support to help them report on how content is being shared across social media.
Read MoreINN has released the second case study from its Ignite Sponsorship Program funded by Google News Initiative (GNI).
Read MoreOn July 31, the Institute for Nonprofit News closed INN Labs and is shifting to providing news technology support through a mix of staff and partner companies.
Read MoreWith funding from Google News Initiative (GNI), the Institute for Nonprofit News has launched the IGNITE Sponsorship Program to enable a cohort of established nonprofit newsrooms to increase their earned revenue from sponsorships. The first plank of this initiative is an in-depth case study of one particularly successful nonprofit newsroom — San Antonio’s Rivard Report — which has bucked the typical reliance on grants and individual donations by managing to generate about one-third of its revenue from sponsorships and what it calls “business memberships.”
Read MoreInstitute for Nonprofit News has taken the rare step of joining a coalition of local news organizations, journalism funders, reporters and advocacy groups (the Rebuild Local News Coalition) in signing an open letter to Congress in support of an important, bipartisan piece of legislation that would help local news organizations.
Read MoreThanks to a grant from the Walton Family Foundation, seven members of the Institute for Nonprofit News will spend the next six months examining how COVID-19 is changing the 2020-21 school year.
Read MorePublic media strategist Courtney Hurtt joins the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN) as the program manager for NewsMatch, the largest grassroots funding campaign for nonprofit journalism.
Read MoreCatchLight, in partnership with the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN), is excited to announce the launch of the CatchLight Local Chicago Initiative — bringing Chicago-based news organizations, local visual journalists, and community members together to harness the power of visuals to better understand the long-term impact of COVID-19 on social equity in local communities.
Read MoreBased on a conversation with the editor of a member newsroom about potential collaborations, INN decided to pursue a project about the Great Lakes.
Read MoreThe Institute for Nonprofit News is launching a pilot program funded by Google News Initiative (GNI) that will enable a cohort of well-established nonprofit newsrooms to increase their earned revenue from sponsorships. Currently, income from sponsorship of content or events makes up a small portion of revenue at most news nonprofits, but it has the potential to grow substantially larger.
Read MoreLike the nation, journalism is really at an inflection point.
Read MoreIf there was ever the time to make the strongest possible case for philanthropic funding of mission-driven journalism, the evidence couldn’t be clearer or the argument more straightforward.
Read MoreThe coronavirus pandemic has sent an ailing local news industry into free fall across the United States. But in dozens of communities, nonprofit organizations that cover local news are a promising bright spot.
Read MoreWe’d like to share how reporters can cover these protests in a respectful, responsible way.
Read MoreThis month, NewsMatch kicks off its fifth funding cycle with the goal of helping scores of nonprofit newsrooms continue to inform their communities and provide in-depth coverage of critical social issues.
Read MoreThe Institute for Nonprofit News is pleased to announce the members of the 2020 INN Emerging Leaders Council, an initiative to identify and support leaders who will advance the nonprofit news sector throughout the next decade.
Read MoreAs the Center for Cooperative media kicks off the second day of its conference, our members are prepared to showcase their excellent work in collaborative journalism.
Read MoreThe Institute for Nonprofit News is updating its donor transparency recommendation for members of the INN news network to make it easier for nonprofit newsrooms to let users know about any government financial support as well as donations.
Read MoreThe Board of Directors of the Institute for Nonprofit News is pleased to announce that veteran journalist Ron Nixon has joined as a director.
Read MoreFive INN member newsrooms, including Iowa Watch, Wisconsin Watch, Carolina Public Press, Side Effects Media and Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, are collaborating to understand how the pandemic is playing out in rural communities in a series called “Slammed: Rural health care and COVID-19.”
Read MoreIt’s great that there are more than 250 of these mission-driven news organizations in the U.S., but how did we get to the point where we need them so badly?
Read MoreWe’ve spent some time looking into the “story behind the story” to understand how journalists at INN’s member newsrooms have responded to the public’s essential need for fact-based reporting.
Read MoreDr. Li Wenliang sounded the alarm just as the virus was just spreading from a local market through one city, Wuhan. Government officials tried to silence him. Officials censored local news, then national news as the sickness spread through China and beyond. Weeks were lost; actions not taken, as Covid-19 spread.
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