NPCJI Panel: Tackling News Deserts, Pt. III

Alan Kotok

January 17, 2024

Photo Credit: Alan Kotok National Press Club president and Axios managing editor for standards Eileen O'Reilly welcomes audience members and summarizes the previous two news deserts panels.

Photo Credit: Alan Kotok Courtney Lewis, chief of growth programs at the Institute for Nonprofit News.

Photo Credit: Alan Kotok Kevin Douglas Grant, co-founder and chief development officer of the GroundTruth Project.

Photo Credit: Alan Kotok Tracie Powell, founder of the Pivot Fund, and fund manager of the Racial Equity in Journalism Fund.

Photo Credit: Alan Kotok Tracie Powell, founder of the Pivot Fund, makes a point during the discussion. Looking on L-R, NPC president Eileen O'Reilly and Amy Kovac-Ashley, executive director of the Tiny News Collective.

Photo Credit: Alan Kotok Amy Kovac-Ashley, executive director of the Tiny News Collective.

Photo Credit: Alan Kotok Sara Fischer, senior media reporter for Axios and media analyst at CNN.

Photo Credit: Alan Kotok Sara Fischer, senior media reporter for Axios (far right) makes a point during the discussion.

The National Press Club Journalism Institute hosted a Jan. 17, 2024 discussion about the role philanthropies and nonprofit newsrooms are playing in trying to solve the huge problem of news deserts, both in regional areas and in underserved communities in the United States.