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Joshua BentonAugust 6, 2020

In the arena: Ken Doctor is moving from “media analyst” to “media CEO” with Lookout, his plan for quality local news

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.

Joshua BentonJuly 30, 2020

An open letter to the new CEO of The New York Times

Meredith Kopit Levien, everyone seems to agree, is the right person to lead the Times into the 2020s. But here’s hoping she’ll view her mission more broadly — including the state of local news in America.

Dan KennedyJuly 10, 2020

Margaret Sullivan has written a brisk and useful guide to the horrifying decline of local news

Ghosting the News is a useful introduction to the decline of local, and Sullivan is an ideal guide.

Joshua BentonJune 17, 2020

What’s The difference between calling your news site Oaklandside or The Oaklandside? Listening

And a willingness to change. “One participant told us this name suggests that ‘We’re on your side. We’re with you…It says that this is Oakland’s side of the story.'”

Hanaa' TameezJune 12, 2020

The Dallas Morning News is testing out reporter-specific promo codes for readers on the fence about subscribing

“Being able to link the promo code to heartfelt messages of why local journalism is so important right now is like a one-two punch that we thought would be powerful with readers.”

The types of coronavirus coverage that people want to read are shifting over time

Sarah ScireMay 8, 2020

In Canada, a government program to support local news tries to determine who’s most deserving

The country’s $50 million Local Journalism Initiative is funding more than 160 reporting positions across the country. But critics say that it’s subsidizing old media at the expense of new models.

Hanaa' TameezApril 23, 2020

Report for America — remotely? Despite coronavirus, RFA will put 225 journalists “in” newsrooms across the country

“We used to say trustworthy information is important to democracy. And now we should say trustworthy local information is a matter of life and death.”

Joshua BentonMarch 10, 2020

How much danger does coronavirus pose to the battered U.S. news industry?

Declines in ad revenue and all those canceled events might prove manageable. But the real risk would come with a virus-inspired recession — and how the industry’s hedge-fund owners might respond to it.

“The market’s failure to support journalism at a systemic level necessitates nonmarket approaches”

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