Our Story

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Public Interest News Network (PINN) harnesses the collaborative and power of the pen through local news journalism, podcasting, visual solutions storytelling and digital out of home advertising to illuminate and broaden the outcomes and impact of nonprofit organizations and the associations that serve them.

We begin with a focus on rural entrepreneurship through a public private partnership formed to advance digital equity through broadband expansion in Franklin County, Virginia. The process will expand to include rural and other geographies across the United States.  http://www.publicinterestnews.network

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PINN is designed for community leaders to collaborate and demonstrate how bipartisan public policy discourse can identify diverse societal 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 was formed to reduce local news deserts, increase high-capacity broadband deployment and help to achieve digital equity, disability inclusion, environmental justice and other societal imperatives.  We take an original approach to independent local news media through an enterprise that aligns public interest technology and communications, accelerates the deployment of fiber-to-the home and helps to close the digital divide. The process can also reduce the risk of grants and earn philanthropic trust.