*Marlee Baldridge* is the 2018 Google News Initiative Fellow. Marlee has reported for print, broadcast and online publications. This spring she helped The Houston Herald in Missouri and The Berkshire Edge in Massachusetts build sustainable audience engagement strategies with the typical amount of resources available to community papers (few to none). She’s from Harrisburg, Missouri, population: 276.
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Baldridge, Marlee. "Water in a news desert: New Jersey is spending $5 million to fund innovation in local news." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 3 Jul. 2018. Web. 22 Jan. 2020.
APA
Baldridge, M. (2018, Jul. 3). Water in a news desert: New Jersey is spending $5 million to fund innovation in local news. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved January 22, 2020, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/07/water-in-a-news-desert-new-jersey-is-spending-5-million-to-fund-innovation-in-local-news/
Chicago
Baldridge, Marlee. "Water in a news desert: New Jersey is spending $5 million to fund innovation in local news." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified July 3, 2018. Accessed January 22, 2020. https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/07/water-in-a-news-desert-new-jersey-is-spending-5-million-to-fund-innovation-in-local-news/.
Wikipedia
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