Tara Francis Chan

 Tara Francis Chan, 2025 RJI Fellow, built Powering News which supports newsrooms with innovative and nontraditional structures, processes, and policies as well as amplifies their best practices to the journalism industry at large. It includes tools such as a comprehensive database of nontraditional newsrooms; a guidebook for news startups on nontraditional newsroom models (such as worker-led nonprofits, worker-owned cooperatives, nonhierarchical structures, co-leadership, etc.); and a resource of innovative insights, lessons, and policies from nontraditional newsrooms that can be adopted by both nontraditional and traditional newsrooms to address operational gaps.