ABSTRACT
By 2022, the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN) reported that it now had more than 400 digital newsrooms as members, an increase of at least 370 newsrooms in 13 years, even with the failure of some and consolidation of some newsrooms over the years. Journalists finally began using the blog in 1998 when the traditional news site of the Charlotte Observer carried reporter Jonathan Dube’s blog about Hurricane Bonnie. The largest increase in nonprofit newsrooms has occurred in the US with the establishment of the Investigative News Network, later changing its name to the Institute for INN, in 2009 by 27 nonprofit news organizations. Sue Cross who joined INN as its second executive director in 2015 said in that year INN research identified roughly 200 nonprofit news organizations operating in the US with roughly 60 percent being INN members.
