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From top: Screenshots taken from 2025 Nieman Lab coverage about the Houston Landing's closure, a 2009 Nieman Lab story about nonprofit news, and 2024 Nieman Lab coverage of the Wichita Beacon's closure. The first reads: "We tried to be too much, too fast, for too many people," a staffer and member of the Landing's union told me. The second, atop an orange rectangle, reads: What makes the nonprofit model compelling in these times? The third reads: "However, we've realized that we couldn't do it all, and have made the decision to no longer have a staffed newsroom in Wichita." The screenshots are bordered by a newspaper-snippet frame.

What is nonprofit news infrastructure solving for?

By Cassie Haynes

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September 18, 2025

We need new questions to guide flourishing news ecosystems that don't treat nonprofit status as the end-all, be-all fix.