Attention, local newspaper owners: This is now a proven, IRS-approved path to convert your money-losing daily into a community nonprofit. Give it some thought.
The network’s pitch to local funders: “By the time the school reforms reached their zenith, there was not a single local education reporter dedicated to covering them.”
“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.”
“We’ve been told repeatedly that the amount of funding that came from SAGE was going to be the same for the long term every year and we were responsible for raising additional revenue…and we’ve done that.”
$660,000 to support a 50-member network will go to Solutions Journalism Network and Report for America for one year from a trio of place-based foundations.
“The right approach is almost always giving up the illusion of control funders think they have and trusting that people closest to the work know what’s best.”
Schmidt, Christine. "More than 240,000 people donated to nonprofit newsrooms via NewsMatch in 2018 (50,000 for the first time)." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 12 Feb. 2019. Web. 17 Apr. 2024.
APA
Schmidt, C. (2019, Feb. 12). More than 240,000 people donated to nonprofit newsrooms via NewsMatch in 2018 (50,000 for the first time). Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved April 17, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/02/more-than-240000-people-donated-to-nonprofit-newsrooms-via-newsmatch-in-2018-50000-for-the-first-time/
Chicago
Schmidt, Christine. "More than 240,000 people donated to nonprofit newsrooms via NewsMatch in 2018 (50,000 for the first time)." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified February 12, 2019. Accessed April 17, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/02/more-than-240000-people-donated-to-nonprofit-newsrooms-via-newsmatch-in-2018-50000-for-the-first-time/.
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