Know a rising star in nonprofit news? – Nominate for the Emerging Leaders Council!
INN is accepting nominations for the 2020 INN Emerging Leaders Council, an initiative to identify and support future leaders of the nonprofit news sector.
This program teaches leadership, management and business tools that yield immediate results and creates space for participants to develop and launch a project with help from a supportive network. Throughout the four-month program, participants will come together once in person for a workshop designed for nonprofit leaders, and they will meet twice monthly via video conferencing for project development and follow-through, leadership and business skills discussions. Applicants must be nominated by their Executive Director/CEO, or if they themselves are the director of a small organization, by their board chair. The nomination deadline is March 15.
This program is designed for full-time staff at INN member organizations who are mid-level in their careers and can advance the nonprofit news sector throughout the next decade. INN Emerging Leaders are people who will advance the nonprofit news sector throughout the next decade. Check out our previous classes.
Learn more about the program and its history and complete the nomination form here. If you have questions, email INN’s Sara Shahriari at sara.s@inn.org.
Host an Emma Bowen Foundation intern in your newsroom this summer
This year, INN is expanding its partnership with the Emma Bowen Foundation by adding new newsrooms to the pogram. The Emma Bowen Foundation builds a more diverse media and tech industry by recruiting promising students of color and placing them in paid, multi-year summer internships at the nation's leading media companies — including many INN member newsrooms. Fellows also become part of a lifelong professional network.
The INN/Emma Bowen Foundation partnership has already placed nearly 60 interns at nonprofit news organizations since the relationship began in 2018. If your INN member organization is interested in hosting an intern this summer, please read our detailed description here. The Emma Bowen Foundation also makes a contribution toward interns’ salaries.
Register now for an upcoming webinar: Could your organization use a legal checkup?
INN and TrustLaw are hosting a webinar next month to help you get a checkup on your current legal needs. TrustLaw connects high-impact NGOs and social enterprises working to create social and environmental change with the best law firms and corporate legal teams in order to provide them with free legal assistance. From their experiences, the team at TrustLaw has developed a Legal Health Check to help organizations improve their legal awareness. This saves organizations their time and resources — helping them to streamline operations and maximize funding opportunities.
Register to join the webinar at noon ET/9a PT on March 19 to learn more about Trust Law and get your legal checkup. Want to access TrustLaw now? You can do that on the INN Services portal. If you have any other questions, please email jonathan@inn.org.
Last call to facilitate a new cohort at INN Days 2020
We currently have three closed cohorts and several open peer groups that traditionally meet at INN Days: Rural newsrooms, statehouse newsrooms and development directors. What are we missing? Help facilitate a new cohort. Deadline to pitch is this Friday, Feb. 28.
After you pitch, don’t forget to take advantage of early-bird registration for the conference, which will be held June 16-17 in Washington, D.C.
If you're interested in sponsoring INN Days — or hearing more about our sponsorship opportunities — get in touch with INN Days Sponsorship Manager Mark Glaser at mark@inn.org.
Be counted! Don't forget to complete your INN Index and compensation studies
Please help us help you and complete the compensation study and this year's INN Index. Access the webinar on-demand here for more information on both surveys. Any further questions about INN Index or the compensation study can be directed to index@inn.org or jonthan@inn.org, respectively. The deadline for both surveys is next Tuesday, March 3.
Sign up with the Labs team to discuss CMS questions — and apply for a digital publishing system grant
Knight Foundation announced it will offer one-time grants of up to $20,000 to 25 publishers for the adoption or management of a digital publishing system. This is a huge opportunity for nonprofit news organizations and newsrooms serving underrepresented communities to move to a new content management system or to upgrade their existing system in 2020. Apply before March 8!
Sign up for a time to discuss your CMS questions for free with the news technologists at INN Labs.
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Opportunities & resources
Apply
- The Solutions Journalism Network is teaming up with Hearken to support newsrooms interested in combining an audience-centered approach to elections coverage with solutions journalism. Apply by Feb. 25.
- The Brechner Center sponsors a $3,000 cash award recognizing excellence in reporting about freedom of information, access to government-held information or the First Amendment. Entries are due by Feb. 28.
- Have an idea for a public records request that can unlock important stories at the state, local or federal level? Share it through MuckRock as part of a contest to help celebrate its 10th anniversary. Submit by Feb. 29.
- The Ida B. Wells Fellowship promotes diversity in journalism by helping to create a pipeline of investigative reporters of color who bring diverse backgrounds and interests to their work. The one-year fellowship helps reporters complete their first substantial work of investigative reporting by providing a $16,000 award and editorial guidance from a dedicated editor at Type Investigations. Apply by March 1.
- The GroundTruth Global Migration, Refugees and Resettlement Reporting Fellowship will select a team of fellows working across key regions, telling narrative-driven, multimedia stories of migration driven by climate change, economic and social instability, war and famine. Applicants must submit story proposals that examine how the global migration crisis is unfolding at the local level, and solutions-oriented stories that explore the different approaches and challenges to permanent resettlement of refugees. Apply by March 2.
Attend
- Join INN for a webinar conversation with Mother Jones CEO Monika Bauerlein and Publisher Steve Katz on how the magazine raised $25 million to create an endowment supporting its journalism. Register for the March 17 webinar here.
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A journalism student at the University of Missouri is seeking your help to explore engagement practice by nonprofit journalists in the United States, including looking at what tools they are using, who they are engaging with and how they evaluate the meaning of this engagement. Please help by completing the survey, which should take about 12 minutes. Participation is entirely voluntary. All data collected are strictly confidential and used exclusively for scientific purposes. For further information, please find the full consent form here.
Learn
- The Knight Media Forum, Feb 25 - 26, is the most important and eagerly anticipated annual gathering of leaders in journalism, technology, philanthropy and the community, to explore ways to strengthen local news coverage and our nation’s democracy. Watch the livestream here.
- Beacon Founder and Editor Kelsey Ryan said her efforts to create her nonprofit newsroom have been helped greatly by the experience and advice of the nation’s growing start-up community, especially the Colorado Sun, the Texas Tribune, INN and LION Publishers.
- Bettina Chang and Andrea Faye Hart of City Bureau share their ideas and techniques for practicing the type of journalism that repairs broken information systems, journalism that reports with communities, not on communities, and journalism that equips people to tell their own stories in this free CUNY online course.
- How a Wisconsin Watch reporter took over a 20-year-old investigation.
Have an opportunity to share with INN members? Email news@inn.org.
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In Case You Missed It
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Wired Impact
- 82% of Americans say they are either “very” or “somewhat” concerned about the potential impact of made-up news on the 2020 presidential election.
Pew Research Center
- Three things local newsrooms can do to prepare for hostile commenters ahead of the 2020 election.
Poynter
- How to build a good reader revenue model: Lessons from Spain and the UK.
Reuters Institute
- What does the future of journalism school look like in the US? Reinvention may be necessary and on the horizon.
Monday Note
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Membership News
Celebrating member achievements — Congratulations:
To The GroundTruth Project, which submitted one of the highest-scoring proposals in the MacArthur Foundation’s 100&Change competition for a single $100 million grant to help solve one of the world’s most critical social challenges.
To South Dakota News Watch, which was accepted into a national grant and educational program that will enable the outlet to expand its coverage of the Native American community in South Dakota throughout 2020.
Stories that change lives: Impact from member reporting:
- The Detroit Water and Sewerage Department board asked a regional authority to double aid available to residents to avoid water shutoffs after Bridge Magazine reported that city shutoffs jumped 44 percent last year.
- The Illinois State Board of Education prohibited the use of locked seclusion rooms and prone restraint after reporting from ProPublica Illinois exposed the practices.
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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