Jonathan Kealing
@jkealing.bsky.social
journalist, avgeek, dad, traveler, nonprofit executive
💬 Your questions. Your ideas. Your IRE. Join IRE Board President @hinklej.bsky.social and Executive Director @jkealing.bsky.social for Office Hours on July 15 to discuss the future of IRE, AccessFest26 and ways to volunteer on a committee. Register: https://bit.ly/4aF4UN4
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Minnesota prosecutors obtain hard drives, car in investigation into fatal shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
Have questions about where IRE is headed? Join IRE Board President @hinklej.bsky.social and Executive Director @jkealing.bsky.social for July 15 Office Hours to discuss the future of IRE, AccessFest26, committee volunteer opportunities and more. Register: https://bit.ly/4aF4UN4
🚀 @IRE_NICAR is thrilled to announce @jkealing.bsky.social as our new executive director! With his extensive experience from the Institute for Nonprofit News, he's set to elevate investigative journalism into the future. Discover more about this exciting moment for IRE: https://bit.ly/4fmTfVK.
We’re launching something new — and we want you to explore it. It's an interactive tool to track what’s happening in federal immigration courts across the country, including cases tied to Wisconsin. wisconsinwatch.org/2026/04/wisc...
Media folks, I wanted to make sure you saw this: @floodlightnews.org is hiring a Deputy Executive Director to join its leadership. For details and to apply: floodlightnews.org/floodlight-d...
Floodlight Deputy Executive Director
SUMMARY Floodlight is hiring a Deputy Executive Director to join our leadership team. This person will help us turn our strategic vision into reality, breaking it down into necessary systems and step...
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Let journalists safely do their jobs freely. This is unacceptable.
Bill Childs@billchilds.bsky.social · 6mo ago“Federal agents briefly detained our reporter at the scene, who says he was tackled to the ground and had a gun put in his face.”
Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
3 Prosecutors Quit After Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim’s Widow www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...
3 Prosecutors Quit After Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim’s Widow
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State of Minnesota, City of Minneapolis, City of St. Paul sue federal government storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
#1 in State of Minnesota v. Noem (D. Minnesota, 0:26-cv-00190) – CourtListener.com
COMPLAINT against Gregory Bovino, Marcos Charles, John Condon, David Easterwood, Todd Lyons, Kristi Noem, Rodney Scott, U.S. Border Patrol, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Department of Homel...
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Minnesota investigators say they can't access evidence after fatal ICE shooting and FBI won't work jointly on probe.
Minnesota Public Radio says today marks the first and only shooting and homicide in Minneapolis in the year 2026
Betty Reid Soskin, who served as the country's oldest National Park Service ranger, has died at the age of 104. Soskin’s family announced her death on Facebook, saying she died peacefully at her home in Richmond, California. “She led a fully packed life and was ready to leave," the statement read.
Several Chicago newsrooms have been quietly collaborating to bring big ICE stories to the forefront. In this story today, we found that feds used chemical weapons on Chicagoans at least 49 times during immigration raids — even after a judge said to stop.
Feds Used Chemical Weapons On Chicagoans At Least 49 Times — Even After Judge Said To Stop
Contrary to federal claims about attacks on agents, most of these incidents appear to involve nonviolent protesters or bystanders.
blockclubchicago.org
BREAKING: The U.S. Department of Transportation announces it will reduce scheduled airspace capacity by 10% starting Friday morning if the government shutdown has not ended, citing "growing pressure" in the NAS as controllers and other personnel continue to go unpaid. Developing story.
Report: Arizona State and Kansas are playing in Wembley Stadium, London on September 19, 2026 The game is scheduled as part of multi-year deal for the “Union Jack Classic.” 🏈🇬🇧 www.postandcourier.com/sports/hamil...
Hamilton: London calling — college football headed to Wembley Stadium
Arizona State and Kansas will play the first college football game at London’s Wembley Stadium in the inaugural Union Jack Classic on Sept. 19, 2026.
postandcourier.com
NEW: NTSB Chair Homendy reveals during an Oshkosh presentation that the DCA airport ATC tower is at a LOWER staffing level than it was on Jan. 29 when two aircraft collided just east of the airport.
In 2023, now DHS scty Kristi Noem set up a company in Delaware. 4 mins later, a dark money group was also created. Then the dark money group paid her 80K as a cut for helping to fundraise for herself. Hmm @justinelliott.bsky.social & @josh-kaplan.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/kris...
Suspected assassin Vance Boelter is seen during his arrest in Sibley County following a two-day manhunt in Minnesota. Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher said eight teams crawled in ditches to corral Boelter before “he eventually surrendered peaceably," Fletcher said. Photo provided by Bob Fletcher.
Pretty intense moment of silence at tonight’s @mnufc.com game in honor of Melissa Hortman and her husband, and Jason Hoffman and his wife.
Breaking @propublica.org: Bukele of El Salvador has become one of Trump’s favorite authoritarians, and Trump touts him as a foe of MS-13. But a US investigation has found evidence he has colluded with the gang, even paying it for votes. www.propublica.org/article/buke...
“Delay, Interfere, Undermine”
President Donald Trump has praised Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele as a crime fighter, but new reporting based on interviews and documents reveals how senior Salvadoran officials have impeded a U.S....
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The Trump administration is canceling a nearly $600-million contract to the drugmaker Moderna that was intended to develop a shot for humans against bird flu.
U.S. Cancels Contract With Moderna to Develop Bird Flu Vaccine
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“I'm not a hedge fund." Head of a media company often accused of gutting the newsroom defends himself with logic seldom heard. (Not saying I buy it.) "Strickbine believes that local newspapers are worth saving, even if they’re no longer able to act as watchdogs." www.niemanlab.org/2025/05/this...
This owner thinks newspapers are better off diminished than dead
“It's just kind of the way it is. Do we have the watchdog role? Can we do that now in all these areas? No. I think that's obvious."
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This is a call for boldness, and for dissatisfaction with the status quo of who we’re reaching and how we’re serving them. news.inn.org/what-is-jour...
What is journalism without an audience? - INN News
Nonprofit news has evolved into a viable model to support local journalism at scale — the problem is that while the models are there, the people are not. This is Jonathan Kealing's call to action.
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"Journalism without an audience is just creative writing. And it’s unsustainable,” writes INN's Chief Network Officer @jkealing.bsky.social in this week's INNsights post. Journalism needs to both reach and serve audiences at scale. Read his call to action: news.inn.org/what-is-jour...
What is journalism without an audience? - INN News
Nonprofit news has evolved into a viable model to support local journalism at scale — the problem is that while the models are there, the people are not. This is Jonathan Kealing's call to action.
news.inn.org
SPC issues Tornado Watch 181 till 4:00Z for portions of MPX Link
Thanks to @speppered.bsky.social at @niemanlab.org for featuring @deepsouthtoday.org in her analysis of the “multi-local” newsroom model “as one of the best hopes of sustainability for delivering more local news to more communities.” www.niemanlab.org/2025/04/mult...
“Multi-local” newsrooms aim to get more news to more people
The model could allow local reporters to be part of bigger, better-resourced teams, while maintaining a level of community trust that’s out of reach for most national counterparts.
niemanlab.org
“The newspaper would shift from a reliance on advertising and subscription revenue under a for-profit structure to a hybrid model that continues gathering these forms of revenue with added philanthropy.” Big news out of Spokane: www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...
Cowles family plans to donate The Spokesman-Review to local nonprofit
The Cowles family intends to donate The Spokesman-Review to a recently formed Spokane-based community nonprofit organization that plans to continue publishing the newspaper amid the changes and challe...
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I’m devastated to learn of the death of John Thornton, a philanthropists whose investments in journalism, via @texastribune.org and @theajp.bsky.social, transformed how newsrooms in this country operate and are funded. Thoughts and prayers to his family and friends. www.theajp.org/news-insight...
A tribute to John Thornton, venture capitalist and local journalism pioneer - American Journalism Project
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