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INN has conducted its annual Index survey of its member news organizations since 2018, capturing performance in 2017. Through exploring INN’s Index data, you can learn what drives nonprofit news, how it’s funded, who it serves, and how we can continue expanding sources of high-quality information for the public.

Past INN Index Archives

Publication
INN Index 2025
July 22, 2026
The 2025 Index data reflect a ‘maturing’ nonprofit news field.
INN Index 2024: Audience & Distribution
In the annual survey of its network of nonprofit news organizations, INN focused deeply on examining audience and distribution.
INN Index 2024
The 2024 Index suggests a stable nonprofit news sector in a wider media environment that is anything but.
2023 INN Index Fact Sheet: Local News
Local nonprofit news is in the midst of a sustained multiyear expansion into more communities, and the number of organizations has more than doubled in six years.
2023 INN Index Fact Sheet: State and Regional News
State and regional outlets have grown steadily in number for more than a decade. Taken together, they now provide coverage of at least 48 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.
2023 INN Index Fact Sheet: National and Global News
National and global news organizations are the oldest and most established group of nonprofit news outlets.
INN Index 2023
The 2023 INN Index Report suggests that as the nonprofit journalism field expands, the resources to sustain this field are expanding, too.
INN Index 2022
The 2022 INN Index Report shows that the nonprofit news sector largely weathered the threats and disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic and continues a growth cycle of more than a decade.
INN Index 2021
The 2021 INN Index found that the nonprofit news field grew by almost every measure.
INN Index 2020
In 2020, the INN Index found that the nonprofit news field entered the pandemic with steady finances, growing ranks and an evolving audience.
INN Index 2019
The 2019 INN Index report chronicles the state of nonprofit news, finding that public support is growing as more individuals donate.
INN Index 2018
INN Index was originally released in October 2018 as the most comprehensive study to date of the nonprofit news media sector.

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