Many thanks to the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN) for promoting the Baltimore Brew’s work – and featuring us in a full-page ad today in the New York Times (page A26 for those inclined to clip and save).

INN provides expertise and resources to its 450+ members, including The Brew.

Some of them, like The Texas Tribune, are biggies with dozens of staffers. Others, like us, are newsrooms on a considerably smaller scale.

But all of them reflect INN’s mission to support “nonpartisan news organizations providing high-quality journalism as a public service.”

They publish a directory – findyournews.org – where you can “find a newsroom covering the stories important to your community.”

Recently the INN folks asked us if they could tag along as we do our work.

Reporter Mark Reutter and I were happy for the company.

We’ve been Brewing for 15 years. (Before that, Mark and I were on the staffs of the Baltimore Sun and the late, lamented Evening Sun, and I was also at the Washington Post.) So it was a pleasure to show folks around.

The photo in the ad shows Editor Fern Shen in Curtis Bay talking to Carlos Sanchez of the South Baltimore Community Land Trust.

What was I there for?

Sanchez’ group is involved in all kinds of environmental justice issues on behalf of residents in that far South Baltimore community – the CSX coal facility, the trash incinerator, the medical waste incinerator and efforts to promote sustainable development.

What were we reporting on that day?

I’m not spilling the beans. You’ll just have to keep reading The Brew to find out!