About the 2023 Index

The INN Index is the most comprehensive study of the state of nonprofit news.

Since 2018, the Institute for Nonprofit News has conducted this annual Index survey of its member news organizations. INN member news organizations act as a research consortium by sharing their business and editorial statistics to help each other benchmark their own development. This practice also helps INN and experts in the field evaluate and better understand new media business models, staffing needs and editorial focus of newsrooms as they form.

INN’s 2023 Index Snapshot Report was published on May 23, 2023. Previous Index reports are archived.

Thank you to our funders

INN’s 2023 Index Snapshot is sponsored by the Google News Initiative (GNI). Many thanks to the GNI team for their commitment to data and knowledge sharing across the nonprofit news sector.

Index reports are also made possible thanks to the Knight Foundation along with INN’s general support funders, including Arnold Ventures, Arthur Vining Davis Foundation, Battery Powered, Democracy Fund, GA News Lab, Hubbard Family Foundation, Inasmuch Foundation, Jonathan Logan Family Foundation, Nan H. Altmayer Charitable Trust, Present Progressive Fund, PCLB Foundation and The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Report credits

• Authors: Jesse Holcomb, Michele McLellan, Emily Roseman and Ha Ta

• Editor: Laura Colarusso

• Data Collection and analysis: Many thanks to our Index research assistants, including Calvin University students Ben Honeyford, Jocelyn Nunez-Colon, Lauren Nyong and Jessa Morren 

• Data visualization: Ha Ta