Columbia University's Teachers College Launches First Nonprofit News Outlet Devoted to Education Coverage

While newsrooms cut back on staff and funds to cover stories, nonprofit news outlets have been proliferating at a remarkable rate, picking up where newspapers left off with donations and financial backing from foundations.

This week, the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media at Columbia University's Teachers College launched The Hechinger Report, a news outlet that covers national education issues through a website and collaborations with other news sources, according to a press release on Poynter.