Lorie Hearn, a 1995 Nieman Fellow, is the executive director and editor of inewsource, a nonprofit she founded in 2009. She formerly was an editor and reporter at The San Diego Union-Tribune
inewsource grew out of the desperation that was sweeping newsrooms across the country in 2009. I was a senior editor for metro and investigations at The San Diego Union-Tribune, and I’d spent way too much time discussing potential layoffs. Read more
To keep pace with the changing economics of newspapers, Hearn turned the San Diego Union-Tribune’s investigative unit she led into a nonprofit … Read more