A new report issued by the Democracy Fund provides an overview of the Black press in the US and makes three recommendations to boost the field as platforms increasingly shift online.
The Knight Foundation’s massive new commitment to the burgeoning field of nonprofit journalism is impressive in its breadth and network approach, but we wish its announcement were clearer about the need to center inclusion.
Foundations spend $1.3 billion annually to support nonprofit journalism worldwide. A study based on 74 interviews of nonprofits, foundations, and intermediaries finds that the funding does not reduce journalistic autonomy, but it does subtly alter the nature of the journalistic enterprise.
The Foothills Forum, at age 5, has won awards and is being sought out for advice from others seeking to start similar nonprofit journalistic ventures.
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.
