Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Solution Set: Lessons from the Philadelphia Media Founders Exchange Link toSolution Set: Lessons from the Philadelphia Media Founders Exchange

Last year we launched the Philadelphia Media Founders Exchange, a program supporting BIPOC media founders with resources to create more sustainable…

When Lauren Settles founded We Talk Weekly, a multimedia news company, at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, she had…

Nonprofit news organizations are a classic example of the old saw, from pre-pandemic days, about how “the most important assets…

For years now, legacy newspapers have been focused on building younger, more diverse digital audiences. However, they’ve still been heavily…

The Lenfest Local Lab @ The Inquirer and the Brown Institute for Media Innovation built an automated approach to identifying and…

Many local newsrooms, including The Philadelphia Inquirer, are beginning to examine the effect their coverage has had on shaping narratives,…

This piece was written in collaboration with Lowell Brown and Beatrice Rider of NKCDC. In March 2022, The Lenfest Local…

This hybrid event — in-person at the Loews Hotel Philadelphia in Center City, with the plenary sessions streaming online —…

One of the primary goals of the Philadelphia Media Founders Exchange accelerator program is to to support more media entrepreneurs…

Researchers have been studying media ecosystems for decades, but it wasn’t until 2010 that the idea of news ecosystems became…

The Lenfest Institute provides free tools and resources for local journalism leaders to develop sustainable strategies to serve their communities.