Time is running out — Help us chronicle the current state of nonprofit news!
The deadline to complete the Index and Compensation surveys is rapidly approaching! Because we want the highest response rate possible to best reflect the scope and growth of nonprofit news organizations across North America, we’re in the last weeks of accepting submissions for both surveys. If you haven't yet completed the surveys, reach out with Membership Coordinator Mara Jezior to discuss an extension.
There are so many benefits of completing these surveys, including:
- Being highlighted by INN publications, funder meetings and NABJ, NAHJ, AAJA and NAJA recruitment events as a member actively working to improve diversity, equity and inclusion in news.
- Saving time on grant applications and reports. Members can give INN permission to submit data so you don't have to do duplicate forms.
- Quantifying the growth of the industry — Past INN Index findings have been shared with hundreds of nonprofit news supporters, including funders, key stakeholders and the public. They’ve also been used by journalism-focused media outlets.
- Creating transparency on salary standards in nonprofit news through the first-ever compensation study.
- Helping us help you. Seeing your site counted helps INN get funding for shared resources that save you money and time — and, ultimately, advocate for you.
We need you! By completing both surveys, you will not only get access to the results from the compensation study for free — you’ll be helping to celebrate the nonprofit news movement.
Get help building your audience — Nominate your website for review from Northwestern University students
Through a partnership with Professor Rich Gordon at Northwestern University, students will evaluate an INN member website and its Google Analytics data and recommend ways to build and/or engage audiences more successfully.
Please fill out this short survey if you'd like to be included as one of the sites studied.
Talk CMS with the INN Labs team — and apply for a publishing system grant
Knight Foundation 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. The deadline is rapidly approaching — Apply before March 8!
Sign up for a time this Friday to discuss your CMS questions for free with the news technologists at INN Labs.
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Calling all nonprofit news enthusiasts! 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.
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Opportunities & resources
Apply
- Justice for Journalists Foundation is accepting applications for its annual Investigative Grant Programme. Applications for journalistic investigations into violent crimes against media workers will be accepted until March 15.
- High Country News is taking applications for its Diverse Western Voices Award. Deadline to apply is March 15.
- The Maynard Institute for Journalism Education and Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications will partner for this year’s Maynard 200 journalism fellowship program, aligned in their mission to galvanize diversity in media and to bolster careers of more journalists of color nationwide. The fellowship aims to train 200 journalists of color in the United States by 2023. Apply by March 30.
Attend
- Using CrowdTangle to Cover the 2020 Election: Facebook Ad Library – Learn how to use CrowdTangle to get a jump on leads, track what’s happening around various candidates and issues on social and understand who’s driving the social conversation. Register for the March 12 webinar here.
- 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.
- 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. Join the webinar at noon ET/9a PT on March 19 to learn more about Trust Law and get your legal checkup.
- For INN members only: Register to attend the Local Media Association's Digital Summit in Chicago, May 11 - May 12, for free! The Local Media Association is “intensely focused on helping local media companies discover new and sustainable business models.” Use the INN code, DRSINN20, at checkout.
Learn
- From Trusting News: How to create a good “About us” page, in four parts.
Have an opportunity to share with INN members? Email news@inn.org.
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In Case You Missed It
- Chatbots will be hidden in Facebook Messenger as part of Facebook’s redesign of the feature.
TechCrunch
- Practicing equity starts when the ideas and strategies of marginalized people are elevated: Lessons learned from two large nonprofits.
Nonprofit Quarterly
- From mid-2016 until early 2018, a consortium of investors from St. Paul and the greater Twin Cities negotiated with Alden to buy the Pioneer Press. What that means for the media landscape today.
MinnPost
- Use this guide to convince those in charge that you need to turn your homepage into a donation destination during your fundraising campaign.
Better News
- A new study finds that readers are equally engaged and express similar levels of trust in a reporter and the news organization, regardless of whether author biographies were present.
Center for Media Engagement
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Membership News
Celebrating member achievements — Congratulations:
To Wendi C. Thomas, founder of MLK50, for winning the 2020 Selden Ring Award for her series on predatory healthcare debt-collection in Memphis.
To Jiquanda Johnson of Flint Beat and Mazin Sidahmed of Documented, who were selected for LION Publishers’ new Advisory Council.
To Stacy-Marie Ishmael and Millie Tran, who were hired as Texas Tribune’s new editorial director and chief product officer, respectively.
To Carolina Public Press, which won 14 awards from the NC Press Association.
To NC Health News, which won 15 awards from the NC Press Association.
Stories that change lives: Impact from member reporting:
- The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously to temporarily ban immigrant detention centers and shelters for unaccompanied children within the city, just two months after Reveal broke the story about VisionQuest’s plan to open a shelter there.
- The Louisville Metro Council’s Public Safety Committee has called Lt. Shannon Lauder to answer questions in the wake of Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting’s “Prosecution Declined” investigation, which found nearly half of all rape cases reported to Louisville Metro Police Department are cleared by “exception,” rather than by arrest.
- Citing an investigation by the Better Government Association that revealed systemic failures in Chicago’s Blue Cart recycling program, aldermen demand public examination aimed at improving the city’s worst-in-the-nation programs.
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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INN, Nonprofit News Strategies
Sue Cross | Email | @suecross
Membership
Mara Jezior | Email | @marajezior
Learning + Training
Fran Scarlett | Email
Services & Collaboration
Jonathan Kealing | Email | @JKealing
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Fiscal Sponsorship, Business Services
Chip Potts | Email
Technology
Kay Lima | Email | @kayleen_lima
Development
Larry Horne | Email
INN Days Sponsorship Manager
Mark Glaser | Email
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