Sophie Culpepper

3 days ago | niemanlab.org | Sophie Culpepper

LINK: www.uvm.edu  ➚   |   Posted by: Sophie Culpepper   |   June 24, 2025How much overlap and collaboration is there between public media and higher education? That’s the question a new report from the Center for Community News at the University of Vermont set out to answer.

4 days ago | niemanlab.org | Sophie Culpepper

— This month, a nonprofit news conference panel titled “Leading Organizations Through Change (And Sometimes Crisis)” drew a standing-room-only crowd. In the panel, part of the Institute for Nonprofit News’ annual INN Days conference, executives of three prominent news nonprofits talked about their “hard-earned experiences” taking over.

2 weeks ago | niemanlab.org | Sophie Culpepper

— What’s the right metric to measure a news organization’s success? A panel of news leaders, most representing small, local outlets, proposed answers to this question in a breakout session at the Institute for Nonprofit News’ annual INN Days conference last week. It was a conversation as much about nonprofit messaging as about newsroom mission, tailored to smaller outlets that don’t equate audience scale with success.

1 month ago | niemanlab.org | Sophie Culpepper

If last year’s Pulitzer Prizes were a “coming-out party for online media,” this year’s winners were dominated, for the most part, by national legacy media. But one young honoree this year stood out among the national outlets: the local nonprofit Baltimore Banner took home its first Pulitzer Prize for a series on the city’s fentanyl crisis. The series was reported by The Banner’s Alissa Zhu, Nick Thieme, and Jessica Gallagher, and produced in partnership with The New York Times.

1 month ago | niemanlab.org | Sophie Culpepper

If last year’s Pulitzer Prizes were a “coming-out party for online media,” this year’s winners were dominated, for the most part, by national legacy media. But one young honoree this year stood out among the national outlets: the local nonprofit Baltimore Banner took home its first Pulitzer Prize for a series on the city’s fentanyl crisis. The series was reported by The Banner’s Alissa Zhu, Nick Thieme, and Jessica Gallagher, and produced in partnership with The New York Times.