Winter Park Voice joins Institute for Nonprofit News

An important update from the editor

March 5, 2024

Dear Reader,

We have some exciting news to share: The Winter Park Voice is one of the newest members of the Institute for Nonprofit News, a growing association of more than 400 large and small (that’s us!) nonprofit, nonpartisan journalism organizations that are dedicated to public service.

You can read INN’s announcement that includes the Voice here.

Through this association, we hope to learn and share best practices to strengthen our mission of bringing you important news about city government and issues that affect the quality of life in Winter Park.

From big national names like PBS News Hour, Politfact and Propublica to smaller Florida outlets like Oviedo Community News, the Florida Bulldog and the Key Biscayne Independent, INN says, “members of the INN Network tell stories that otherwise would go untold – connecting communities, holding the powerful accountable and strengthening democracy. INN programs help these news organizations develop revenue and business models to support strong reporting, collaborate on editorial and business innovation, share services and advance the diverse leaders who are forging a new future for news.”

At the Winter Park Voice, we remain committed to providing you the stories you count on free from paywalls and ads. We operate on a small budget and rely solely on the generous support of our community. Your contributions are tax-deductible and go directly toward publishing news for our community.

It’s now been one year since I started as editor of the Voice and we’ve accomplished a good bit during that time: We officially became a nonprofit, started our Sunday newsletter called the Weekly Roundup and joined INN. But we have a lot more work to do to keep delivering information that would otherwise get lost in this increasingly fragmented news world as the legacy regional newspapers and television stations shrink.

We believe the nonprofit hyperlocal news model is a big piece of the path forward. So, from time to time, you will see us share content that we hope you find relevant from INN partners that we know adhere to our same principles and journalistic standards.

For example, just this week we shared a story from Oviedo Community News about an expansion at Trinity Preparatory School, which straddles the Seminole-Orange border and serves many families in Winter Park.

Collaboration among hyperlocal sites is now every bit as crucial as competition when it comes to serving our common mission of making valuable information accessible to the people who live here.

At the Winter Park Voice, we hope to build on that spirit and do our part to help you feel more informed and plugged in to the place you live, work or like to visit.

As always, don’t hesitate to reach out with questions or suggestions. A big thank you to all of you for your support and readership, which makes this work possible.

Sincerely,

Beth Kassab

Editor

 

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