Religion News Foundation

Editorial: enhanced rns's editorial efforts by focusing on breaking stories and coverage of important issues including christian nationalism, covid-19, immigrant religious communities volunteering and impacting their communities, racial justice, and voter participation; enhanced coverage on the black church, catholicism, hinduism, nonbelievers, and paganism/wicca; continued Religion hub on the rns website; continued an award-winning podcast, saved by the city and began building a platform that includes additional podcasts; began a partnership with report for america; and continued partnerships with the associated press and the conversation usa, columbia university/scripps howard foundation/inn, interfaith america, and public Religion research institute (ppri); and won awards, including from Religion News association, the Religion communicators council, the associated church press, and wilbur awards. Audience development: grew website traffic by better understanding the rns audience to develop a more loyal readership; enlarged rns's email list and social following; and expanded rns's digital footprint, achieving milestones in web and social media. Revenue growth, development and diversification: grew and diversified rns's revenue through initiatives including developing a platform for small individual and major donors; expanded fundraising outreach to foundations and high net worth individuals. Organizational development and operations: aligned rns/s procedures with nonprofit journalism best practices and improved rns's technological/web capacity. Impact: enhanced rns's reach by taking into account our readers' comments and increasing citations and republication in other publications.