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Christine SchmidtAugust 22, 2019

Three years into nonprofit ownership, The Philadelphia Inquirer is still trying to chart its future

Buyouts, rebranding, good journalism, and a vision still in progress: The Philadelphia Inquirer has had quite a summer. The metro newspaper business is still tough, even without a hedge fund or private equity pulling the strings.

Christine SchmidtAugust 23, 2018

The Lenfest Institute is testing new products for local news, and it wants your help

“If we’re going to be a test kitchen, let’s cook some stuff!”

Shan WangSeptember 21, 2017

To Philly and beyond: The Lenfest Institute announces $2 million in funding for local news projects

The Philadelphia Media Network is getting $1 million. Twelve organizations and five entrepreneurs-in-residence will be getting another for projects ranging from local news membership models to experiments in audience engagement.

Joseph LichtermanMay 3, 2017

Philly’s Lenfest Institute has raised $26.5 million and could get another $40 million from its namesake

The institute, which owns the two Philadelphia dailies, also plans to introduce a fellowship program and award grants to help sustain local journalism.

Ken DoctorFebruary 13, 2017

Newsonomics: The new Knight-Lenfest initiative gives a kick in the pants to America’s metro newspapers

“We have so valued the fact that we are still standing. ‘Look we’re still standing!’ But standing is not enough…you gotta run.”

Joseph LichtermanSeptember 22, 2016

How the new director of Philly’s Institute for Journalism in New Media is approaching his job

Longtime media consultant Jim Friedlich discusses his vision for a sustainable metro newspaper.

“No single, one-size-fits-all approach”: Challenges and possibility in the Philly newspapers’ nonprofit reorganization

Ken DoctorFebruary 19, 2016

Newsonomics: The financialization of news is dimming the lights of the local press

As single-minded, profit-driven management drives down the local news business, where is its moral center — the one that long rested, if sometimes uncomfortably, alongside the demands of running a successful business?

Shan WangJanuary 22, 2016

Can Philly’s new Institute for Journalism in New Media live up to the enormous hopes pinned on it?

We talked to its new crop of board members: “My experience in the area of philanthropy is that if you are addressing important issues, have good ideas, and can show results, people and organizations are willing to support you.”

Ken DoctorJanuary 21, 2016

Newsonomics: The hard realities of Philly’s Hail Mary nonprofit reorganization

The numbers don’t add up to growth. Sprinkling some some nonprofit pixie dust won’t save the newspaper industry; only new ideas can do that.

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