Karen Burkett

Miami

CEO and Executive Director at The Institute for Nonprofit News (INN)

CEO/Executive Director @INN

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Articles

When we invest in local reporting, we strengthen our ties with each other

Jan 24, 2025 | inn.org | Karen Burkett

When we invest in local reporting, we strengthen our ties with each other Share | By Karen RundletThe show at the local theatre likely won’t make national headlines. Neither will the city council’s plans to repair the potholes you hit on your daily commute. But both stories are examples of meaningful community news that often gets short shrift.
INN to provide grants to local newsrooms reporting on California wildfires - Editor and Publisher

Jan 16, 2025 | editorandpublisher.com | Karen Burkett

Posted Thursday, January 16, 2025 10:47 am Over the past few years, members of the INN Network and other small newsrooms have increasingly served their communities during natural disasters — from flooding in Vermont to fires in Maui. We believe that providing accurate news and practical information to communities directly affected by weather and nature-related crises is an essential service that demands philanthropic support.” Independent newsrooms reporting on the California wildfires may...
A pivotal moment: 15 years of building the nonprofit news movement

Jun 11, 2024 | inn.org | Karen Burkett

A pivotal moment: 15 years of building the nonprofit news movement Share | By Karen RundletINN’s CEO Karen Rundlet prepared these remarks to open the INN Days conference in San Diego on June 11, 2024. I attended my first INN Days as a very new journalism funder back in 2016.
The sky is not falling: Annual INN Index data show nonprofit news is stable, but not foolproof

Jun 5, 2024 | inn.org | Emily Roseman |Jesse Holcomb |Karen Burkett

The sky is not falling: Annual INN Index data show nonprofit news is stable, but not foolproof Share | By Emily Roseman, Jesse Holcomb and Karen RundletOver the seven years the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN) has studied the nonprofit news sector, the signals have pointed in the same direction: growth. This year, the signals were a little more mixed than usual.
The path to a Press Forward local chapter in Wichita

Dec 12, 2023 | newsatknight.substack.com | Karen Burkett |with Mark Glaser

When the massive funding coalition Press Forward recently announced its first set of local chapters, you may have been surprised to see Wichita, Kan., on that list. I wasn’t. That’s because leaders at Wichita Foundation have been investing millions in local news in the past five years, and have even helped kick-start three news startups with Tiny News Collective.
We Need Local Newsrooms That Serve Diverse Audiences For Our Democracy To Survive

Oct 18, 2023 | essence.com | Karen Burkett

When I travel to a new city for work, I often check headlines and local news coverage. It’s part of the job, after all, as a journalism funder. During a recent trip to a large Northeast city, I reviewed several local news homepages – public media, the city’s largest newspaper, television stations, a radio station and, of course, a few independent local news sites.