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Nonprofit Highlands Current still going strong after 10 years in circulation
Sep 1, 2022
Before Stewart died in 2014, he converted his enterprise into a reader-funded, nonprofit news organization to keep it going with community support, Rowe said. In 2016, the newspaper’s board changed ...
National Summit on Journalism in Rural America shows good journalism is good business
Jul 1, 2022
“I leave hopeful for community newspapers,” one attendee said as she left the National Summit on Journalism in Rural America June 4. And there were reasons to have hope.
Nonprofit corporation for New Jersey Local Media takes the reins of NJ’s largest independent weekly newspaper group
May 12, 2022
On March 31, 2022, the Corporation for New Jersey Local Media (CNJLM), a nonprofit organization founded in 2020 to build strong communities through journalism and civic engagement, took over the operations ...
One way to put philanthropy in your business model: a community news fund
May 1, 2022
For independent newspaper owners who can’t find the right buyer, the key move could be transferring the paper to a nonprofit corporation and living on salary rather than distributions of profits. ...
Alberto Ibargüen — a vision to reinvent local news
Apr 28, 2022
As a lawyer, publisher, president and CEO of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and longtime champion of journalism and the arts, Alberto Ibargüen, this year’s recipient of the Al Neuharth ...
GUEST PERSPECTIVE: Free press, diversity and the digital age
Dec 23, 2021
Indian Country Today’s story doesn’t match many common narratives in local news: that local newspapers aren’t sustainable, aren’t growing and struggle to go digital. Editor Mark ...
NeSmith, Georgia publisher turns dying weekly into nonprofit to be maintained editorially by the University of Georgia
Nov 1, 2021
Two strategies that have been touted as ways to preserve community newspapers — the nonprofit model and university involvement – are combining to save a weekly newspaper in northeast Georgia. ...
N.C. family with seven decades of courage, integrity and tenacity honored with Tom and Pat Gish Award
Aug 1, 2021
A family that has demonstrated courage, integrity and tenacity at its twice-weekly newspaper in North Carolina over three generations is the winner of the 2021 Tom and Pat Gish Award from the Institute ...
A new newspaper ownership model emerges in Colorado
Jun 1, 2021
On Monday, a newly formed group called the Colorado News Conservancy announced it will buy the company in a unique arrangement that involves the National Trust for Local News and the Denver-based Colorado ...
