Podcast covers vital role of non-profit news

Jason Alcorn

Non-profits newsrooms provides necessary services to communities across the country and they are the focus of this edition of Update-1.  In this podcast NewsMatch Project Director Jason Alcorn talks to National Press Club Broadcast/Podcast Committee member Shannon Fisher about the role of non-profit news and the struggle independent news organizations have funding local watchdog journalism.

 NewsMatch is an annual gift matching campaign started by the Knight Foundation, an organization with a mission of informing communities to keep them engaged as a way of maintaining a healthy democracy. Four out of five nonprofit newsrooms provide investigative and explanatory journalism. They frequently replace the reporting of for-profit news organizations that have downsized due to dwindling advertising revenues.

 Club Broadcast/Podcast team co-vice chair Mike Hempen produces Update-1. The podcast can be heard on the Club website or on iTunes, Stitcher and TuneIn.