“In my experience in legacy media, the answer was to throw your hands in the air and say, ‘There’s not much we can do.’ Well, I don’t find that acceptable. We have to find ways to reach those audiences.”
Lookout doesn’t want its local news sites to be a supplement or alternative to the local daily. They aim to be the news source of record in their communities, outgunning their shrunken newsprint rivals from Day 1.
“The grants will fund an organization’s first dedicated revenue positions, or grow an existing revenue team. Most will fund at least two new full-time positions for 24 months dedicated to revenue and fundraising.”
Among the grantees: The American Journalism Project gets $20 million, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press gets $10 million, and The News Literacy Project gets $5 million. And there’s more, lots more.
Owen, Laura Hazard. "“Rebuilding a local news ecosystem”: Knight pledges $300 million to local news, free speech, and media literacy organizations." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 19 Feb. 2019. Web. 24 Jul. 2024.
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Owen, L. (2019, Feb. 19). “Rebuilding a local news ecosystem”: Knight pledges $300 million to local news, free speech, and media literacy organizations. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved July 24, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/02/rebuilding-a-local-news-ecosystem-knight-pledges-300-million-to-local-news-free-speech-and-media-literacy-organizations/
Chicago
Owen, Laura Hazard. "“Rebuilding a local news ecosystem”: Knight pledges $300 million to local news, free speech, and media literacy organizations." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified February 19, 2019. Accessed July 24, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/02/rebuilding-a-local-news-ecosystem-knight-pledges-300-million-to-local-news-free-speech-and-media-literacy-organizations/.
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