Serving low-income immigrants was supposed to be our weakness. It proved to be the key to our sustainability Audience trust can fund journalism. Here’s how El Timpano built a sustainable model serving marginalized communities May 4, 2026 Madeleine Bair
More immigration data is available than ever. Journalists should proceed with caution. New tracking sites make it easier to follow immigration and enforcement, but journalists still need to verify what they find April 29, 2026 Jon Greenberg
As statehouse coverage shrinks, student journalists are stepping in to fill the void Across 30 states, college reporters are covering statehouse journalism gaps — and the experience is changing their lives. April 20, 2026 Ashton Slaughter
Opinion | What we learned from a failed Nota News experiment From Josh Brandau, CEO of Nota April 16, 2026 Josh Brandau
Opinion | MS NOW is investing in local news and original reporting as it builds a post-NBC identity The network will partner with The Marshall Project, States Newsroom and the Pulitzer Center to power investigative and statehouse coverage April 9, 2026 Tom Jones
Student newspapers still dominate campuses. This newsletter shows what else is possible. With a staff of two and 12,000 subscribers, a USC student is ‘setting a precedent’ for campus news and a path for creator journalism April 8, 2026 Ashton Slaughter
Nonprofit newsrooms have grown, but they still generate a fraction of what newspapers once did A new report finds most rely on philanthropy for much of their funding, with limited revenue from subscriptions, ads and memberships April 7, 2026 Eric Rynston-Lobel
An AI company set out to fix news deserts. Instead, it copied local journalists’ work Nota shut down its news sites after Axios and Poynter found dozens of plagiarized quotes, phrases and photos April 2, 2026 Angela Fu
Who covers education in Indy? Parents have to work to find information about schools April 1, 2026 Tracey Compton
Journalism students are more skeptical of AI than you might think A classroom experiment at Northeastern found students questioning how — and whether — AI belongs in journalism March 31, 2026 Dan Kennedy
Student journalists are often on their own. I built a network to change that. The Philadelphia Student Press Association connects collegiate journalists from campuses all over the city March 31, 2026 Jackson Juzang
Opinion | As immigration enforcement reshapes communities, many local stories go untold In Northern Kentucky, local newsrooms are missing stories about fear, lost business and disrupted routines. Some of those stories may never be told. March 23, 2026 David S. Rotenstein
How philanthropy moved money at the ‘speed of news’ during Minnesota’s immigration surge Seven lessons for funders from how Press Forward Minnesota mobilized to support local news during Operation Metro Surge March 20, 2026 Megan Griffith-Greene
What do we learn about local newsrooms by looking at their Olympics coverage? Many Indy newsrooms rely on their parent companies to bring their audiences news from the Winter Games February 25, 2026 Tracey Compton
When local news disappears, people turn to social media feeds, influencers and gossip People without local news consume information at similar rates — and don’t believe they’re missing anything, a Medill survey found February 11, 2026 Michael Lev
