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Patterson Foundation and INN Discuss Nonprofit and Independent News Funding Needs
Financial Sustainability Workshop: A meeting for Funders and Publishers
Organized by The Patterson Foundation and the Investigative News Network
In December, The Patterson Foundation and the Investigative News Network invited representatives from national foundations that have been supporting independent and non-profit journalism to participate in a February conversation about financial sustainability for journalism’s startups.
The idea for this meeting grew out of a relatively new connection between Kevin Davis, INN executive director, and Janet Coats, new media journalism initiative manager for The Patterson Foundation.
Janet was working on TPF’s behalf to launch an experimental, high-intensity business mentoring program for community news publishers called Super Camp. Kevin...
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CIR Honored with $1 Million MacArthur Award
INN member Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR) has been honored for its investigative journalism by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation with a $1 million award. CIR is one of 15 organizations in six countries to receive the 2012 MacArthur Award for Creative & Effective Institutions. The award is "not only recognition for past leadership and success but also an investment in the future."
The organizations were recognized because they “provide new ways of addressing problems, generate provocative ideas, innovate within their field, reframe the debate and have impact altogether disproportionate to their size,” wrote Robert Rosenthal, executive director of CIR.
Rosenthal, who joined CIR four years ago,...
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INN and Nine Members Receive Grants from the Ethics & Excellence in Journalism Foundation
The Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation has awarded a grant of $125,000 to the Investigative News Network (INN). The generous grant is the third from the foundation, and will help INN increase editorial collaborations, share resources, provide training and develop revenue-generating programs for the Network's nonprofit journalism members.
The Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation was founded by Edith Kinney Gaylord, its mission to invest in the future of journalism by building the ethics, skills and opportunities needed to advance principled and probing news and analysis.
"This grant comes to us at a great time," said Kevin Davis, INN CEO and Executive Director. "The generosity of the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation will assist the Network in...
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IWMF Offers Grants to New Media Women Entrepreneurs
The International Women's Media Foundation is offering three grants of $20,000 each to "women journalists who aspire to be digital news media entrepreneurs.
It's called the Women Entrepreneurs in the Digital News Frontier grant, and it's supported by the Ford Foundation.
If you are a U.S.-based woman journalist with an idea for a digital news media project that you have not launched, you can submit an application for this grant intended to advance women in news media.
The application deadline is March 2, 2012. The winners will be notified in April.
Learn more about the Women Entrepreneurs in the Digital News Frontier grant.
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Q & A with John Flemming and Leonard Witt of the newest INN member, JJIE
INN: Tell us why you chose juvenile justice as a niche topic?
LW: The answer is fairly simple, a recent national study showed that one in three American males would be arrested by the time they are 23 years old. Last I heard, some 400,000 youth end up in some form of incarceration each year. The real kicker: a paper by Katayoon Majd, states that in one recent year only 24 percent of those incarcerated kids were charged with felonies stemming from violent crimes. You know if a kid drinks a beer he can go to jail or if he talks back to a teacher, the same fate is possible. Yet, there is very little daily persistent reporting on juvenile justice issues. We think that is criminal, so we have made that our niche beat. We started as Georgia centric, but now our national numbers are pushing us to be more national. That’s why we love the possibilities that INN collaborations provide.
INN: So...
