LINK nky has been selected to participate in the Local Media Association’s 2024 cohort of the Lab for Journalism Funding.
The lab will help news organizations like LINK develop and execute strategies to fund essential local journalism via philanthropy. The six-month intensive lab runs from August through January 2025. Newsrooms will receive one-on-one coaching from the Local Media Association’s team of coaches.
Since its launch in September 2020, the lab has trained and coached over 100 publishers, helping them raise over $25 million to fund community service journalism.
“Each of these newsrooms has a commitment to community service,” said Frank Mungeam, chief innovation officer at Local Media Association. “We are excited to help them develop philanthropy as one of the ways to sustain their essential local journalism.”