Author Archives: Lorie Hearn
Lorie Hearn is the founder and former CEO and Editor of inewsource. She retired in December 2025. A lifelong news-aholic, she started her reporting career writing her Girl Scout newsletter at age 12. High school and college were filled with school newspaper work, and after graduation, she worked as a reporter for newspapers on both coasts. At The San Diego Union-Tribune, after completing a Nieman fellowship at Harvard, she relinquished her front seat on the world as a reporter and became an assistant editor, then Metro Editor and finally Senior Editor for Metro and Watchdog Journalism.
Lorie is a member of the inewsource development committee and will continue contributing to the nonprofit news industry through her involvement with the Institute of Nonprofit News and other ventures.
Lorie considers San Diego her home — even her hometown, since, as a child, her family moved around the country. When she's not editing a project, writing a grant proposal or out in the community extolling the importance of nonprofit, accountability journalism, she's experimenting in the kitchen, walking her labradoodle, reading fiction or watching ancient Perry Mason reruns.
