Past Opportunities

COLab partners are invited to the Stories and Storytellers mixer from 4-6 p.m. Aug. 18 at the Buell Public Media center. This is a chance to meet with experts and sources for climate change, climate equity and justice, regenerative agriculture and business, the just transition for oil and gas, and more. It’s sponsored by The Alliance Center, which is kind of like the COLab for these kinds […]

The American Press Institute is accepting applications from local news organizations for small-project funding to support efforts to improve your newsroom’s relationship with your communities through election coverage this year. Eligible local news outlets can apply for funds through August 17, 2022 in amounts from $1,500 to $5,000 per newsroom. The grants are being awarded as […]

Are you a business executive or manager at a small to midsize news organization? In this series, publishers will share best practices that they have learned from their participation in GNI Labs and beyond. GNI will be highlighting success stories inspired by lessons covered in previous workshops across the Digital Growth Program’s five business topics: […]

Join the Lenfest News Philanthropy Network on Tuesday Aug. 16 at 1:30 p.m. MDT for a Community Chat focused on fundraising around the upcoming U.S. midterm elections.  Community Chats are unstructured peer-to-peer discussion opportunities where we can all come together to share ideas, raise questions and challenges, and think through strategies. The Community Chat is […]

The Local Media Association‘s 2022 Conference, LMA Festis a modern take on the former LMA Digital Revenue Summit. The event will take place at the Gleacher Center, home to the University of Chicago’s executive MBA program, in downtown Chicago. The three days of meetings — Aug. 16-18 — will be focused on the growth of […]

There are 7,000 rare diseases in the world that affect 350 million people. But covering rare diseases has been a particular challenge for journalists because the word “rare” itself implies that the topic isn’t of particular interest to mass-market news audiences.  In fact, rare disease is not particularly rare among humans – an estimated 8% to 10% of the global population […]

Submissions for the 2022 MOLLY Awards are now open. The MOLLY Investigative Journalism Prize is an annual award of $5,000, open to national print and digital outlets. For the second year, the Texas Democracy Foundation and the Texas Observer will also be presenting an award of $2,000 for Excellence in Political Commentary, in memory of the biting analysis […]

With support from the Knight Foundation, PRX is hosting the PRX Journalism Podcast Accelerator specifically for U.S. newsrooms that are looking to launch or further develop on-demand audio products and strategies. Through the end of 2023, PRX plans to support up to 20 teams of journalists, who’ll participate in a 12-week curriculum and mentorship lab, focusing on […]

Media2070 and Vision25: Building Racial Equity come together for a virtual conversation to discuss pay exploitation in the news industry and to imagine a more equitable future in newsrooms. Martin Reynolds, co-executive director of the Maynard Institute, will be joined by Alicia Bell and Diamond Hardiman of Media2070, an organization that earlier this year exposed […]