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Search Insights: Getting to Know Your Audience Better
As a nonprofit news organization, you may think you know who your news audience is by your interactions with them via social media channels, through chats or discussions forums, or even at...
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How To Keep Your Digital Accounts Secure
Lately, news organizations have been in the news not just reporting it. In recent months and weeks, several major news organizations have been victims of hacking in which they have had their social...
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Grant Writing Tips for Nonprofit News Organizations
If you are a nonprofit news organization you are most likely familiar with the world of fundraising and grant writing. Whether you are a newbie or veteran to this process, this week I provide some...
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Voice of San Diego Launches New Site, New Social Experience
Today the Voice of San Diego launches a new website. It’s not just a redesign, but also a major restructuring of the content management system and a change to the overall news experience for the end...
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Ebook Tips for Nonprofit News Organizations
If you are a nonprofit news organization, you may be thinking of potential methods to diversify the way your news content can be distributed to a variety of publics. One method to consider is the...
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Mobile Giving: Fundraising through the Mobile Platform
The idea of mobile giving or giving donations for charitable causes via the mobile platform is not new. For several years, many charitable organizations have been using the mobile platform as a way to...
View ArticleNews Nonprofits Should Join the Push for IRS Reform
The tempest around the Internal Revenue Service’s practice of targeting conservative political groups has overshadowed the plight of nonprofit news organizations seeking tax-exempt status. Journalism...
View ArticleFor journalists, collaboration is king at NFCB 2013
The future of nonprofit journalism is collaborative, not competitive — but making it happen will take hard work, a positive attitude and imaginative problem solving. That’s the verdict of an afternoon...
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INN statement on vote to evict Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism...
Investigative News Network CEO Kevin Davis expressed disappointment and concern over the vote by the Wisconsin State Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee to evict a nonprofit, nonpartisan...
View ArticleINN members recognized at June 2013 IRE Awards
Three INN-affiliated news nonprofits have received national awards for their coverage of the impacts of power and corruption in everyday life — from labyrinthine dark-money political campaigns to...
View ArticleStatement of the Vermont Journalism Trust Board on the pending eviction of...
Reprinted from the Vermont Journalism Trust press release: Whereas the free flow of information and an unfettered and vigorous press are keys to any working democracy; and Whereas the Wisconsin State...
View ArticleCongratulations to INN’s Re-Elected Board Members
INN members re-elected four sitting candidates of the INN Board of Directors. Laura Frank of I-News Network, Robert “Rosey” Rosenthal of the Center for Investigative Journalism, the St. Louis Beacon’s...
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Data at the Heart of Collaboration: INN & IRE Invest in New Networked...
Denise Malan, INN's new Director of Data Services As mass media continues to decentralize and transform, two leading journalism membership organizations are investing in data to help nonprofit...
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Big 2013 Turnout for INN @ IRE Day in San Antonio
Lauren Fuhrmann of the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism leads a breakout group on "Evaluation in a Box." For the third year running, the Investigative News Network created a thriving...
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Investigative News Network Launches New Reponsively Designed Website
The Investigative News Network has relaunched our website to make it easier to access our members’ stories and INN’s programs and resources on any device. The new site features a rich set of new...
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Collaboration Tools for the Newsroom
Collaboration has become the norm in many newsrooms today. A newsroom cannot function without collaborative processes, a solid team and digital tools that can help support that collaboration. There...
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How 100 Reporters got its 501(c)(3) — and lived to tell the tale
Diana Shermo, 100 Reporters Executive Editor For public-interest news organizations, getting nonprofit, 501(c)(3) status from the IRS is both an essential milestone to achieve — and a veritable...
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ProPublica releases new do-it-yourself document crowdsourcing tool
INN member ProPublica made waves last year with its Free the Files document crowdsourcing project, and now its developers have released an open-source tool called Transcribable to help other newsrooms...
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Nonprofit newsprint targets underserved audiences, builds partnerships,...
I’m often asked why a print newspaper is at the core of the nonprofit local news organization I launched in San Francisco. All the innovation in the journalism startup space seems to be rushing onto...
View ArticleThe mystery and measurement of nonprofit-news impacts
A new report on nonprofit-news evaluation from the Investigative Reporting Workshop tackles the issue of defining what “impact” really is, and how it can be measured across nonprofit newsrooms. The...
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