Across 303 participating newsrooms, NewsMatch brought in $38 million in individual donations. The largest 50 newsrooms brought in $24 million of the $38 million total.
“We want to serve people like our parents: Immigrants, monolingual Spanish speakers who have specific needs and many stories to tell but who are often left out of mainstream media.”
There was an increase in foundation support and individual giving for nearly two-thirds of nonprofit news outlets, but a decrease in earned revenue for about half.
“These skills are in some ways very similar to doing journalism. As that was impressed upon the cohort, that helped make a shift: It helped give people a mindset where they felt more confident and realized, ‘Yes, I do have the skills to do this.'”
“If the Iowa Falls newspaper writes about its hospital for two years, it’s an Iowa Falls problem that Iowa Falls has to solve…And by the time you’re talking about a major region of the nation like that, it becomes a national problem to be solved.”
“Nonprofit news organizations have much in common even if their scope or mission differs. Their journalistic missions are shaped largely by the gaps they are trying to fill — investigative at the state, national and global level; more general news at the local level.”
Schmidt, Christine. "Nonprofit news outlets aren’t relying as heavily on foundations — but journalism philanthropy continues to grow." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 18 Sep. 2019. Web. 12 May. 2023.
APA
Schmidt, C. (2019, Sep. 18). Nonprofit news outlets aren’t relying as heavily on foundations — but journalism philanthropy continues to grow. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved May 12, 2023, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/09/nonprofit-news-outlets-arent-relying-as-heavily-on-foundations-but-journalism-philanthropy-continues-to-grow/
Chicago
Schmidt, Christine. "Nonprofit news outlets aren’t relying as heavily on foundations — but journalism philanthropy continues to grow." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified September 18, 2019. Accessed May 12, 2023. https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/09/nonprofit-news-outlets-arent-relying-as-heavily-on-foundations-but-journalism-philanthropy-continues-to-grow/.
Wikipedia
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