The Expanding Provider Landscape

Newsrooms are shrinking, and a growing wave of independent creators and new outlets is changing how people find and trust information — and what counts as journalism in the first place. CNTI’s work examines who these providers are and what policymakers and the industry need to know to support a healthy, expanding information landscape.

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  • South African Indie Info Providers: Responding to Resource Constraints with Creativity and Collaboration

    South African newsrooms are shrinking. CNTI’s new report finds the indie info providers responding to that collapse with creativity, collaboration and a pointed push to decolonize local media.

  • What Independence Really Means for Indie Journalists

    This group is more able to innovate, represent diverse communities, and tell stories that might escape institutional newsrooms — stories we need more than ever. But independence, it turns out, is not so simple. 

  • US Indie Info Providers: Professionally Diverse, Mission-driven, Sometimes Lonely, Rarely Earning Profit

    A first look at the people shaping independent information in the United States — and the challenges keeping most of them from breaking even.

  • Focus Group Insights #1: What Defines News, Journalism and Journalists

    Journalism faces shrinking budgets, staff cuts, and closures worldwide. Despite more digital outlets, quality reporting is declining, while many consumers increasingly avoid or limit their news exposure.