A new organization, backed by a venture capitalist who launched the Texas Tribune nearly a decade ago and the founder of Chalkbeat, aims to raise $1 billion to support mission-driven local news outlets.
Craig Newmark is among a growing number of philanthropists who are investing in the growing field of journalism, nonprofit news sites, and infrastructure.
Is press monitoring of local government effective? Not always, but often enough that a study of over 200 US counties in the past two decades reveals a pattern in which, after local papers close, government efficiency falls and the cost of public borrowing rises.
Foundation support for nonprofit journalism has never been stronger, but, as a new report reminds us, there remains a gaping local media hole to fill.
In Argentina, as in the US, the old journalism model is decaying. In the US, nonprofit journalism has become increasingly prominent; in Argentina, building on that nation’s strong worker co-op sector, journalists themselves are becoming owners of their own publications.
As the landscape of journalism continues to evolve to incorporate more collaborative and nonprofit activity, the move of the popular PolitiFact to become a standalone division of Poynter that can work nationally makes great sense.
Before the rise of NPR, public radio was but a bit player in radio news. Could the past decade’s rise of nonprofit local media be a harbinger of a similar transformation in newspapers?
We asked our community of embedded practitioner journalists why they write for NPQ. These are their responses.
Chicago has a rich tradition as a big news hub, but now it appears to be attracting a swarm of nonprofit journalism groups. Will it eventually become a model for a more distributed news landscape?
This new grant program’s outcomes should be watched closely by nonprofits of all kinds.
