InDepthNH.org is celebrating the first-ever Local News Day April 9 with a $10,000 match for all donations from the Katy Burns Local Journalism Fund.
Local News Day is a national effort to reconnect people with their local news outlets.InDepthNH is thrilled to participate and started our Local News Day fundraiser on April 3 to run until midnight April 9. Please help us make the full $10,000 match.
Because of her many years as reporter, editor, columnist, press secretary, community activist and public official, Katy Burns was a zealous advocate for a free press and, in particular, for local journalism. To honor her and her legacy, her husband Don Burns and family established the Katy Burns Local Journalism Fund, with the goal of promoting and sustaining local journalism in New Hampshire.
“The Katy Burns Local Journalism Fund has been a generous donor to InDepthNH.org since it was formed to honor Katy, an amazing journalist and wonderful woman, who wrote for the Concord Monitor. This gift is an awesome way for us to launch this very special time of giving and a reminder of the importance of local news,” said Nancy West, founder and executive editor of InDepthNH.org.
You can donate here or mail a check to New Hampshire Center for Public Interest Journalism, 38 Edgewater Drive, Barrington, NH 03825.
It is critically important in New Hampshire where we have lost 75 percent of all news jobs since 2001, watched several newspapers close and circulation and revenues decline, West said.
InDepthNH.org launched in 2015 to help rebuild news in New Hampshire. Last year more than 2 million people read our stories online and in other news outlets such as the Conway Daily Sun and Lawrence Eagle Tribune along with others. About 17,350 people have signed up for our free daily newsletter.
Our awesome reporters Garry Rayno, Paula Tracy, Damien Fisher, Zach Laird and Katharine Webster – and our columnists Susan Dromey Heeter, Michael Davidow, Michael Ferber, and Wayne King, – are the best at what we do. We are all thrilled that political cartoonist Mike Marland has rejoined our team of veteran journalists who live to keep our readers informed. We like to tell the truth about what’s happening in New Hampshire and you all have responded by keeping this nonprofit in business.
You can tell we are growing as we are now adding members to our board of directors and launching an advisory board – all to help us build a sustainable business model. You’ll hear more about these initiatives in the coming months so stay tuned.
In the meantime, please make a donation between now April 3 – that’s right now and midnight April 9 to have whatever you can give matched 100 percent up to the $10,000 from the Katy Burns Local Journalism Fund.
“I would love to see us make the whole $10,000 match and believe we can. Our readers and major donors like the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, the Geoffrey E. Clark and Martha Fuller Clark Fund, the Barr Foundation, Clover Hitch Fund, NewsMatch and others have kept us growing now into our 11th year,” West said.
Please sign up for our free newsletter on our website InDepthNH.org and buy a subscription to your local newspaper. This is about saving all of our news outlets as we believe local news is critical to saving our democracy.
Americans overwhelmingly say that local news and information is the most important and most trusted source they rely on. On April 9, 2026, Local News Day will help millions reconnect with the local outlets that strengthen our communities, keep us informed, and hold leaders accountable.