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This post is part of “Building a Thriving News Ecosystem,” a series from Knight Communities Network, a Lenfest Institute community…

Working with 13 newsrooms from September 2025 to January 2026, we conducted a study to examine local newsrooms’ communication, specifically…

This post is part of “Building a Thriving News Ecosystem,” a series from Knight Communities Network, a Lenfest Institute community of…

What does it actually take to build and sustain a high-impact newsroom? Launched in 2019 by The Lenfest Institute, Spotlight…

This post is part of “Building a Thriving News Ecosystem,” a series from Knight Communities Network, a Lenfest Institute community of…

In a crisis, “people don’t look for perfect information, they look for actionable information.” That is, they don’t just want…

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This article originally appeared on Blue Engine Collaborative's LinkedIn. Research from our friends at INMA and Mather on the state…

Join hundreds of local news fundraising professionals from around the world for the fourth Lenfest News Philanthropy Summit, hosted in…

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