{"id":214941,"date":"2021-06-16T00:22:20","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T04:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lionpublishers.com\/?page_id=214941"},"modified":"2023-01-20T18:11:13","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T22:11:13","slug":"make-my-news-org-sustainable","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lionpublishers.com\/make-my-news-org-sustainable\/","title":{"rendered":"Make My News Organization Sustainable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>\n\t\tLaunch a News Startup\n\t<\/h2>\n\t<p>At LION, we know the unique challenges and opportunities that small independent newsrooms face because we work hand in hand with these publishers, providing 850+ hours of coaching, training and consulting along with $1.7 million in direct funding in 2022 alone.<\/p>\n<p>This work helped us develop <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lionpublishers.com\/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-sustainable-news-business\/\">a holistic framework for news business sustainability<\/a> that combines financial health, journalistic impact and operational resilience. <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lionpublishers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Sustainability-5-\u00d7-3-in-2.png\" alt=\"Venn diagram of sustainable with three overlapping circles: financial health, journalistic impact and operational resilience\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"675\" width=\"1125\" title=\"Sustainability (5 \u00d7 3 in) (2)\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t<p>LION&#8217;s education programs and other resources are designed to help publishers build stronger small businesses on their path to sustainability.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lionpublishers.com\/about\/\">Learn more about LION Publishers<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lionpublishers.com\/membership\/\">apply to become a member<\/a> to access coaching and funding opportunities, discounted media liability insurance, professional development courses, and a community of fellow news publishers in the U.S. and Canada. <\/p>\n<h3>\n\t\tOther Resources\n\t<\/h3>\n\t<p>These journalism-support organizations do excellent work to strengthen local and\/or independent news startups in the U.S. and globally.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.journalism.cuny.edu\/centers\/center-community-media\/\">Center for Community Media<\/a><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/centerforcooperativemedia.org\/\">Center for Cooperative Media<\/a><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.freepress.net\/issues\/future-journalism\/local-journalism\/about-news-voices\">Free Press&#8217; The New Voices project<\/a><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/indiegraf.com\/\">Indiegraf<\/a><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/inn.org\/\">Institute for Nonprofit News<\/a><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.localmedia.org\/\">Local Media Association<\/a><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fundjournalism.org\/\">News Revenue Hub<\/a><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sembramedia.org\/who-we-are\/\">SembraMedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.splicemedia.com\/\">Splice<\/a><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theajp.org\/\">The American Journalism Project<\/a><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/revenuelab.org\/\">The Texas Tribune&#8217;s RevLab<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>These journalism-support organizations offer specific topic-area training or funding that our members have found useful:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/membershippuzzle.org\/\">Membership Puzzle Project<\/a><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reportforamerica.org\/\">Report for America<\/a><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solutionsjournalism.org\/\">Solutions Journalism Network<\/a><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tablestakes.org\/\">Table Stakes<\/a><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/journalismproject\/accelerator\">The Facebook Accelerator Program<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\t<p>What other resources would you add to this list? Email us at <a href=\"mailto:hello@lionpublishers.com\">hello@lionpublishers.com<\/a> to let us know.<\/p>\n<h2>\n\t\tSign up for the weekly newsletter\n\t<\/h2>\n\t<p>Join the LION mailing list to get our weekly roundup of opportunities and resources for news entrepreneurs. \u2028<a href=\"https:\/\/us8.campaign-archive.com\/home\/?u=31fb0ac82cb4a8d09fdeccf51&amp;id=c13072eb57\">View our most recent issues<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t<form action=\"https:\/\/lionpublishers.us8.list-manage.com\/subscribe\/post?u=31fb0ac82cb4a8d09fdeccf51&amp;id=c13072eb57\" method=\"post\" id=\"mc-embedded-subscribe-form\" name=\"mc-embedded-subscribe-form\" target=\"_blank\" novalidate=\"\">\n\t<input type=\"email\" value=\"\" name=\"EMAIL\" id=\"mce-EMAIL\" placeholder=\"Enter your email...\" required=\"\"\/>\n    <!-- real people should not fill this in and expect good things - do not remove this or risk form bot signups-->\n    <input type=\"text\" name=\"b_31fb0ac82cb4a8d09fdeccf51_c13072eb57\" tabindex=\"-1\" value=\"\"\/>\n    <input type=\"submit\" value=\"\" name=\"subscribe\" id=\"mc-embedded-subscribe\"\/>\n<\/form>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Launch a News Startup At LION, we know the unique challenges and opportunities that small independent newsrooms face because we work hand in hand with these publishers, providing 850+ hours of coaching, training and consulting along with $1.7 million in direct funding in 2022 alone. This work helped us develop a holistic framework for news&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":679,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"coauthors":[217],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":""},"post_excerpt_stackable":"<p>Launch a News Startup At LION, we know the unique challenges and opportunities that small independent newsrooms face because we work hand in hand with these publishers, providing 850+ hours of coaching, training and consulting along with $1.7 million in direct funding in 2022 alone. This work helped us develop a holistic framework for news business sustainability that combines financial health, journalistic impact and operational resilience. LION&#8217;s education programs and other resources are designed to help publishers build stronger small businesses on their path to sustainability.\u00a0 Learn more about LION Publishers, and apply to become a member to access coaching&hellip;<\/p>\n","category_list":"","author_info":{"name":"Kari Leigh London","url":"https:\/\/www.lionpublishers.com\/author\/klondonthecode-co\/"},"comments_num":"0 comments","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Make My News Organization Sustainable - LION Publishers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We know the unique challenges and opportunities that small independent newsrooms face because we work hand in hand with these publishers.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lionpublishers.com\/make-my-news-org-sustainable\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Make My News Organization Sustainable - 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