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Erin Millar

Erin is the CEO & Co-founder of Indiegraf. She’s a journalist and entrepreneur who founded The Discourse, where she led an award-winning journalism team and developed a successful business model for in-depth local news. She also contributed to founding the Independent Media Association of Canada and C4C Canada, a charity dedicated to amplifying underrepresented voices.

Erin's Latest Articles

The News Startup Fund will distribute $3.5 million to grow small local media

By Erin Millar ● Indie Publisher ● October 19, 2022 October 19, 2022

With support from the Google News Initiative, Knight Foundation and McConnell Foundation, Indiegraf will provide funding and services to help founders grow their outlets on a rolling basis for the next three years.

Six lessons from a year of supporting independent local news startups

By Erin Millar ● Indie Publisher ● June 11, 2021 September 13, 2022

How Indiegraf is making an impact in news deserts across North America.

Party in the USA: What Indiegraf’s expansion into America means

By Erin Millar & Caitlin Havlak ● Indie Publisher ● November 20, 2020 September 13, 2022

Learn how this investment will help fill gaps in community journalism in some of the more than 2,000 news deserts

Here’s how Peterborough Currents raised $20,000 from readers

By Erin Millar & Rachel Chen ● Indie Publisher ● October 20, 2020 September 13, 2022

The independent news outlet rallied supporters before they even had a website.

Apply by June 19 for the Indie News Challenge!

By Erin Millar ● Indie Publisher ● June 10, 2020 September 13, 2022

We’ll help you get from the idea stage to attracting your first subscribers.

How Indiegraf helped launch six local news outlets during COVID-19’s first wave

By Erin Millar & Caitlin Havlak ● Indie Publisher ● May 27, 2020 September 13, 2022

As the big newspaper chains falter, a new network of independent journalist-entrepreneurs aims to make starting a digital news outlet easy. Introducing: Indiegraf