About Input Fort Wayne
Northeast Indiana Community News
Input Fort Wayne covers the people, organizations, and ideas moving Northeast Indiana forward. From small businesses to big projects, we cover the work happening on the ground to drive meaningful change. This is community news you won’t read anywhere else.
We are committed to solutions journalism that reflects lived experience, builds understanding, and strengthens connection. Our community news uncovers how communities are responding to real challenges — practical solutions, local leadership, entrepreneurs, and community organizations working to improve quality of life and expand opportunity.
Informed, engaged communities depend on open access to local information. All of our content is free and accessible, with no paywall.
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Our Team
Brittany Lantz, Managing Editor
Based in Fort Wayne, she brings valuable perspective to coordinating journalism efforts across the region. Brittany brings her expertise in opportunities for content sharing and coverage coordination among Issue Media Group publications. She also provides strategic direction for strengthening our journalism service across Indiana and Ohio.
She joined Input Fort Wayne in 2021 as Assistant Editor. Prior to that she participated in the College Input Program and interned with Northeast Indiana Public Radio. She also served as a Production Assistant for NIPR for several years.
Brittany discovered her passion for journalism in a high school yearbook class. This led her to pursue a degree in journalism at Purdue Fort Wayne, from which she graduated in 2020. She enjoys meeting people who are improving their communities. When she isn’t editing or writing, Brittany can be found running, crafting, or spending time with her pets. Email Brittany.
Contributors:
Bailey Gerber, Lauren Caggino, Sarah Spohn, Jennie Renner, AJ Hughes, Katy Anderson, and Dezaray Clawson
Photography Contributors:
Rachel Von Stroup, Kaleigh Middelkoop, McKayla Nevers and Selena Oxender
About Issue Media Group
Vital journalism moving communities forward
Input Fort Wayne is part of the Issue Media Group family of publications.
Issue Media Group (IMG) is a national network of locally focused publications advancing community transformation through solutions-oriented journalism.
Across our markets, we report on the people, organizations, and practical responses addressing real challenges — sharing insights that communities can learn from and build on.
As the parent company of this publication, IMG provides the editorial framework, infrastructure, and cross-market collaboration that strengthen local impact.
Founded in 2005 in Detroit, IMG partners with mission-aligned organizations across the public, private, nonprofit, and grassroots sectors through an underwriting model of publishing. Our journalists engage directly with residents and stakeholders through ongoing listening sessions, ensuring that our reporting is community-informed, trust-building, and grounded in lived experience.
IMG’s journalism has been recognized and supported by national media and civic organizations, including the Knight Foundation, Solutions Journalism Network, Columbia Journalism Review, INC Magazine, Ground Source, and the Society for Professional Journalists.
Republishing Guidelines
At Issue Media Group, we are dedicated to doing impactful journalism and reaching audiences where they are. Unless otherwise noted, our original content is free to republish through a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license and in consideration of the following guidelines:
- You must give the publication, writer(s) and/or visual journalist(s) credit.
- If you publish online, retain any links included in the story, and please link to the article page on Input Fort Wayne or the original Issue Media Group source site.
- Please let us know that you republished our content by emailing editor@inputfortwayne.com.
- Stories may be edited only for individual outlet style and otherwise should be published in their entirety.
- If you share the story on social media, please link to the article page on Input Fort Wayne or the original Issue Media Group source site and tag the respective social media accounts.
- Our content may not be sold in any way or used for commercial purposes, and it should not be published behind a paywall.
- If you have questions, please reach out to editor@inputfortwayne.com.
