INN at Home virtual conference to explore the real meaning of nonprofit news with Fraser Nelson of The Salt Lake Tribune
There is no better candidate than Fraser Nelson to describe the implications for transforming a for-profit to a nonprofit newsroom. As Vice President of Business Innovation for the Pulitzer Prize-winning Salt Lake Tribune, Fraser Nelson is leading the independent news organization in its groundbreaking conversion to nonprofit. Nelson talks about how and why the shift is more profound than changing tax status, and what true transformation means — for the business and its community. Nelson has decades of social innovation leadership experience, having worked with The Community Foundation of Utah, the Sorenson Impact Center, and “And Justice for All.”
After her talk, Nelson will moderate a panel on what makes nonprofit news different, and why we can’t rest on “nonprofit” as a shorthand for trustworthy. She’ll be joined by John Bebow, President and CEO, Bridge Magazine; Bettina Chang, Co-Founder, City Bureau; Robert Chappell, Associate Publisher, Madison 365; Giles Morris, Executive Director, Charlottesville Tomorrow.
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Resources we like this week, from friends of INN
Apply
- Reveal’s Investigative Fellowship helps support journalists with a range of diverse backgrounds develop investigative reporting skills. The yearlong fellowship focuses on early- to mid-career reporters and producers in the United States. Apply by June 22.
- Funded by the Lumina Foundation, IRE’s Educator of Color Scholarships provides data training for college journalism educators to receive hands-on training as well as assistance with syllabus creation and teaching skills. Apply by June 15.
Attend
- The COVID-19 pandemic has ushered in soaring levels of child hunger and food insecurity in families across the nation. The next Center for Health Journalism webinar on Wednesday, June 3 at 1 p.m. ET will explore fresh angles for deeper reporting on hunger, food insecurity and other unmet needs in your community. Register.
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In Case You Missed It
- In 2018, Facebook internally studied how the platform polarizes users, then largely shelved the research.
Wall Street Journal
- Remote work’s real power rests not with wealthy coastal folks moving to cheaper cities, but with its ability to lift people across the country up and give them access to new jobs.
Remotely Inclined
- Staff who maintain the news homepages on Microsoft’s MSN website and its Edge browser have been told that they will lose their jobs and be replaced by robots.
The Guardian
- Whether it’s using Facebook or Google, our choices are subtly nudged by the human biases acting behind the scenes.
BBC Future
- The fourth edition of Tomorrow’s News, a global survey of 1,700 professionals on Reuters.com from December 2019 to January 2020, finds that those surveyed turn to news brands first for ‘trusted content in a trusted environment’ (87%).
Reuters
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Membership News
Celebrating member achievements — Congratulations
To Injustice Watch for hiring reporter Carlos Ballesteros.
To The Marshall Project and Sundance Institute’s Documentary Short Film Fund for selecting five filmmaking teams to support in producing a series of documentary shorts with new perspectives on criminal justice in the United States.
To former New Haven Independent reporter Christopher Peak, who won 10 statewide awards from the Society for the Professional Journalists for stories published in the Independent.
To Buffalos Fire of Indigenous Media Freedom Alliance for winning a silver Telly award for an online news feature.
To Madison365, which received funding from Google’s Journalism Emergency Relief Fund.
Stories that change lives: Impact from member reporting
Do you have news to share or want to submit a profile of your nonprofit news organization? Tell us at news@inn.org.
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