In February, Impact Architects kicked off something we’d been thinking about for a long time. Now, the first IA Blueprints cohort has

This is an abridged version of a keynote talk I gave in Lausanne, Switzerland in late 2025 at the launch of OurFrame, a nonprofit impact

Vermont may not be a news desert, but its news ecosystem infrastructure is fragile.

This winter, we’re opening applications for IA Blueprints, a new series of structured, practical learning programs designed to help

Reflections on building digital spaces for public media

For more than 20 years, the major question that news organizations, funders, and support organizations have been struggling to answer is

Rather than working within the confines of the tax code, we propose a new model that includes three incentive structures to categorize

Insights from my keynote with The Association for Information and Communication Media

At its core, impact reporting for journalism is an exercise in storytelling.

In 2021, Impact Architects worked with Seattle-based radio station KUOW to help develop a sustained source diversity tracking process as

In partnership with the Wyoming Local News Fund, in late 2024 Impact Architects released a report detailing the state of the local news and

How to apply our Local News & Information Ecosystem framework to your community

How survey data and conversations with residents strengthened our methodology to assess Wyoming’s local news ecosystem

Three takeaways from the American Evaluation Association’s conference about using AI in our work at Impact Architects

More than indicators, analytics, or metrics, impact measurement at its core is about building an organizational culture that understands

Throughout the past year and in partnership with Democracy Fund, Impact Architects dove into 10 news and information ecosystems across the

In 2020, three funders came to us and said, “we all fund local news ‘ecosystems,’ but that means something different to each of us.” We

In this post, Rosemary D'Amour and I share our recommendations on building clear, compelling data sets.

For journalists and others who want to track the qualitative impact of their work, the Google Looker Studio can be a valuable tool, helping

This January, I set out to use ChatGPT to assist me in conducting computational text analysis on news articles from various U.S. outlets.