Center for Independent Media: Four lessons from a nonprofit that raised $11.5...
On the morning of my second-to-last day as the editor of The Washington Independent, I was surprisingly nervous waiting for my boss to walk across the newsroom to meet me for what I pitched to him as...
View ArticleWhat makes a nonprofit news org legit? Three other questions to separate...
Last week, Jim Barnett raised a question about nonprofit journalism: What makes it legit? How do we know if a nonprofit news outlet shares the ideals and culture of traditional journalism, and how can...
View ArticleThe Washington Independent is folding, the CEO goes over the books and...
On Wednesday, the nonprofit news and politics site The Washington Independent announced that, after just under three years of publishing, it’s closing shop. Its state-based sister site The New Mexico...
View ArticlePew: Nonprofit journalism doesn’t mean ideology-free
Pew’s Project for Excellence in Journalism is out with a new study this morning that looks at the new universe of nonprofit journalism — and tries to get beyond the ProPublicas of the world to see who...
View ArticleAfter the demise of its network, The Colorado Independent is born again on...
Susan Greene got the call about six weeks after she became editor of The Colorado Independent in early 2013: The American Independent News Network, which funded the nonprofit online news organization,...
View ArticleIn Connecticut, the Independent Media Network tries to succeed where Patch...
AOL’s Patch was perhaps the most noteworthy attempt to network local online news. It was built around hundreds of locally focused sites, yes, but it relied on a common technology back end and a shared...
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