Support News for Good today during today’s #GivingTuesdayNow campaign

Today is #GivingTuesdayNow! INN is proud to recognize all of our 230+ publishing newsrooms who are participating, raising money to fund their essential public service journalism. Fund your local newsroom today! Our members are on the frontlines of the pandemic, playing an essential role in covering the COVID-19 crisis. And they’re not just providing information — they’re donating masks and meals to strengthen their communities.

Show your support for the essential work that nonprofit newsrooms are doing by donating and joining the conversation on Twitter using the #NewsforGood and #GivingNewsDay hashtags.

Thanks to the New York Times for supporting nonprofit, local newsrooms
 

COVID-19 resources we like this week, from friends of INN
 

• FRONTLINE is now accepting applications to its Local Journalism Initiative, a program that bolsters investigative journalism in communities where independent reporting is endangered by financial pressures on news media. Apply by June 15.

• How do you get from an idea to audio? This three-part series starting May 6 guides you through turning a concept into a podcast. Led by Amy Martin, founder and executive producer of the award-winning podcast Threshold. Register here.
• What do journalists, especially news managers, need to know to support mental health in the newsroom? Join New York City journalist-turned-therapist Melissa Stanger, who shares why journalists are at risk for stress and trauma, signs to look out for and strategies for coping. Register for this May 7 webinar hosted by RTDNA.
• Lessons learned in Facebook's Local News Accelerator program have generated thousands of new paying supporters for dozens of news organizations around the world in the last two years. On May 8, get a distilled look at key tactics and strategies drawn from Accelerator publishers in this discussion with Accelerator Executive Director Tim Griggs and Accelerator Program Manager David Grant. Register here.

• Read this Q&A with Reveal immigration reporter Laura Morel on covering COVID-19 at detention centers.
• Watch this webinar recording from Global Investigative Journalism Network on using open-source info to report from home.
• Advice from MuckRock on how to help ensure government transparency and request valuable information during the COVID-19 crisis.
• Created by Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University and Project Facet, the Collaborative Journalism Handbook is a collection of guides and workbooks created to help newsrooms design and manage effective, equitable and meaningful collaborative journalism projects in the service of audiences. 

In Case You Missed It

• Facebook has announced that it’ll be adding the option for people to charge for access to events with Facebook Live streams.
  The Verge
• Local news outlets are a major source of COVID-19 news for 46% of the public.
  Pew Research Center
• Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers announced this week it would be scrapping its plan to sell management of the .org domain system.
  VICE
• A new report finds many news organizations are not providing the training or resources to protect journalists, sources, internal information and the organization’s reputation — despite the higher threat to security that the visibility of a news organization brings.
  The Tow Center
• Podcast downloads and streams are starting to rise again after falling during the pandemic.
  Nieman Lab
• The Baltimore Sun’s news guild and a potential local ownership group is proposing that the outlet transitions to a nonprofit. 
  Baltimore Magazine

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