We are so lucky to have Sophie Culpepper as our full-time local news reporter. For several months, she’s been working on a heavily reported series, “‘Haves and have-nots’ in nonprofit news? The view from small news outlets.” This week, we ran it in two parts: You can read part I here and part II here. For this piece, Sophie spoke to dozens of folks from small nonprofit news outlets, associations, and foundations about what they’re seeing in terms of funding. They talked with her extensively and candidly (“bacon-wrapped conferences” is a new fave phrase around our office) and the resulting in-depth pieces should be read by anyone who’s interested in the funding of news in the United States. As our deputy editor Sarah Scire noted, this package has “got everything — resentment, crunched numbers, local stories, and legitimate debate.”

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