Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
This dynamic, all-female leadership conversation brings together five influential nonprofit news CEOs from the United States to reflect on what it takes to guide mission-driven investigative, narrative, community-first journalism through this extraordinary moment in time. The panel will explore the pressures on nonprofit sustainability from technological change, political polarisation, audience fragmentation, and shifting revenue models. And together, these leaders will outline strategies for independent journalism organisations to adapt and meet the moment—innovating to reach the audiences who will benefit most from their organisations’ work, partnering with newsrooms they once sought to “scoop”, and modernising how impact on the mission is measured and communicated. Moderated by Katrice Hardy. Organised in association with The Marshall Project.
Con: Monika Bauerlein (CEO Center for Investigative Reporting), Katrice Hardy (CEO The Marshall Project), Ayanna Johnson Watkins (co-executive director MLK50: Justice Through Journalism), Emily Ramshaw (president and CEO The 19th), Robin Sparkman (president and co-CEO ProPublica)
This dynamic, all-female leadership conversation brings together five influential nonprofit news CEOs from the United States to reflect on what it takes to guide mission-driven investigative, narrative, community-first journalism through this extraordinary moment in time. The panel will explore the pressures on nonprofit sustainability from technological change, political polarisation, audience fragmentation, and shifting revenue models. And together, these leaders will outline strategies for independent journalism organisations to adapt and meet the moment—innovating to reach the audiences who will benefit most from their organisations’ work, partnering with newsrooms they once sought to “scoop”, and modernising how impact on the mission is measured and communicated. Moderated by Katrice Hardy. Organised in association with The Marshall Project.
Con: Monika Bauerlein (CEO Center for Investigative Reporting), Katrice Hardy (CEO The Marshall Project), Ayanna Johnson Watkins (co-executive director MLK50: Justice Through Journalism), Emily Ramshaw (president and CEO The 19th), Robin Sparkman (president and co-CEO ProPublica)
