Work
- Founding managing director and now vice president of learning and impact for the American Journalism Project
- Project director for the NewsMatch matching gift campaign
- Public Square consultant at Democracy Fund
- Advisor to the Listening Post Collective and Migratory Notes
- Peer facilitator of the INN Emerging Leaders Council
- Metrics and Impact editor at MediaShift
- Co-organizer of the Agora Engaged Journalism Boulder workshop.
- Business consultant at Institute for Nonprofit News
- Speaker at ONA 2017
- Wrote “How News Partnerships Work” for the American Press Institute
- Speaker at the 2017 Collaborative Journalism Summit
- Adjunct professor at USC Annenberg School of Journalism
- Session facilitator on parenthood in the news business at SRCCON
- Finalist in Social Venture Partners Fast Pitch 2015
- Speaker at the 2015 Investigative Reporters and Editors Conference
- 2015 reporting honors from the Northwest Excellence in Journalism Awards and the Washington Press Association
- Co-author of USC’s Impact Assessment & Metrics Guide
- Crowdfunded and launched the Statehouse News Project
- Expanded nonprofit investigative journalism in Oregon
- Developed a new radio series with public media for the Knight INNovation Fund
- Speaker on “Measuring Impact” at the 2014 Investigative Reporters and Editors Conference
- 2014 reporting honors from Investigative Reporters and Editors
- “Can Investigative Journalism Pay?” a Columbia University case study on nonprofit business models
- 2013 reporting honors from the Knight-Risser Prize for Western Environmental Journalism
- Researched donor decision making for the Media Map Project
Bio
Jason Alcorn is vice president for learning and impact at the American Journalism Project, the first venture philanthropy focused on local news. He leads organization-wide knowledge management in support of the organization’s mission and programs. As the American Journalism Project’s first hire, he oversaw its launch and first 18 months of operations. He previously was project director for NewsMatch, an annual matching gift and capacity building campaign that helped to raise more than $250 million for nonprofit news organizations in three years. He has worked as a strategic consultant for nonprofit news organizations and philanthropic foundations and helped to develop the Institute for Nonprofit News Emerging Leaders Council. Jason also an award-winning journalist who served as associate director of Seattle-based nonprofit news organization InvestigateWest from 2011 to 2016. Jason has a M.S. in Journalism and a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University, with a focus on media and public policy.
Contact
I am available to write and speak about nonprofit journalism, leadership in the news business, and equity in journalism and philanthropy. I also like to daydream about these things over a good stout and a soccer game. Talk to me at jason@jasalc.com.