In this era of tightening belts and budgets, some organizations are choosing to join with their peers to pool resources and information. One such recently formed collabarative is the Investigative News Network. The group, which formed out of the 3-day Pocantico conference that finished today, posted it’s charter online. Their central mission is simple:
to aid and abet, in every conceivable way, individually and collectively, the work and public reach of its member news organizations, including, to the fullest extent possible, their administrative, editorial and financial wellbeing.
I have long held that a possible avenue for newspaper survival is to go the nonprofit route, and the folks at Pocantico seem to be supporting that idea. It will be interesting to see how their fundraising efforts unfurl over the next few months and exactly how much centralization the seperate organizations are willing to provide for the project. Also interesting to note is the number of heavy hitters in both the news and nonprofit sphere in attendance, ranging from HuffPo and NPR to the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and Center for Public Integrity.
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