Our Story

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This web posting is a focus group tool, edited often to stimulate discussion.  

Public Interest News Network (PINN) employs a local news franchise model to harness the collaborative and entrepreneurial power of the pen. We utilize human capital management technology, evidence-based human resource data and people analytics to help create and illuminate solutions to diverse societal problems.

PINN is designed to broaden the scope of community alliances, which may include: foundations, nonprofit organizations, industry and trade associations, franchises, banks, employers and employees. These and other community leaders are well-prepared to demonstrate how bipartisan public policy discourse can identify problems and help to create policy solutions that advance global economic competitiveness. Bipartisan leaders can conduct research, fund pilot programs, test policy effectiveness and consequently mobilize support for policy change.  

PINN elevates and illuminates the emerging fields of public interest technology, communications, publishing and law. Our objective is to empower the practitioners of these diverse fields and disciplines to function as a collective high-growth industry dedicated to serving the social good. The process is designed to broaden independent local news media, advance community engagement and reinvestment, reduce the risk of unrestricted funds,  justify trust-based philanthropy, eliminate news deserts and help to close the digital divide.