Public Interest Partners will soon launch the Public Interest News Network (PINN), a nonprofit local news and state-based information network featuring a digital out-of-home ecosystem. PINN combines mobile data journalism, journalist entrepreneurship and visual solutions storytelling with people analytics, e-learning and other human capital management applications. PINN incorporates a local news and magazine franchise model and a private label option, which provides the operational, economies of scale and other benefits of a media franchise.
The process can also stimulate, inform and illuminate bipartisan public policy discourse and support a grassroots and universal effort to advance the common good. Cross-sector professionals can collaborate and help to shape public policy by identifying diverse and large-scale societal problems and can also help to create and share sustainable solutions that will consequently appeal to the cross-sector funding and investing community.