For Burnett and WKMS, the public radio station she manages in southwestern Kentucky, the specter of defunding was an ominous ...

Nine Midwestern news organizations completed the Medill-LMA Midwest Advanced Fundraising Lab, strengthening their philanthropic fundraising approaches to support sustainable local journalism. Running ...

Print advertising (18%), online advertising (5%), print circulation (38%), digital circulation (12%), commercial printing (21%), Community Funded Journalism donations (3%), parking space rental and ...

Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism, founded and funded by Stewart Bainum Jr. Audrey Cooper was the editor-in-chief at WNYC in New York when she saw the news that Kimi Yoshino, founding editor ...

Media, including Volume One advertising and video production (43%; 70% print, 30% digital), Retail and products (44%), Events, including tours and tickets (13%) When he was 22 years old, Nick Meyer ...

‘You probably won’t care about 90% of our coverage. And that’s the point.’ Reader Revenue and individual donations (36%), Grants (31%), sponsorships (15%), Partnerships (12%), Community Events (6%) ...

In many ways, the Dallas-Fort Worth area represents a microcosm of the declining local news coverage that the State of Local News Project has been tracking nationally. Against this background, it’s ...

‘We are privileged to have survived for eight years — and now we have to figure out how we can be sustainable for the next five.’ For The Colorado Sun, founded by former Denver Post journalists in ...

Commercial printing (37%), advertising (31%), print subscriptions (18%), digital subscriptions (8%), single copy (2%), philanthropy (2%), other (2%) For years, the Santa Fe New Mexican’s digital ...

Even as many news organizations lose traffic to AI, CT Mirror’s audience has grown 20% since 2025. Readers in Hartford, New Haven and Fairfield counties account for 75% of CT Mirror's audience, with ...

Cardinal News was named the Institute of Nonprofit News’ Startup of the Year in 2023 and Local Independent Online News’ Publishers Business of the Year in 2025. Last year, it received grants from the ...

When we last featured The Philadelphia Inquirer as a Bright Spot in 2023, the organization was in the middle of a transformation under Publisher and CEO Lisa Hughes, who had joined the paper after a ...