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    Articles tagged Lookout Santa Cruz (6)

    Joshua BentonSeptember 11, 2024
    With an expansion on the way, Ken Doctor’s Lookout thinks it has some answers to the local news crisis
    After finding success — and a Pulitzer Prize — in Santa Cruz, Lookout aims to replicate its model in Oregon. “All of these playbooks are at least partially written. You sometimes hear people say, ‘Nobody’s figured it out yet.’ But this is all about execution.”
    Joshua BentonMay 7, 2024
    This year’s Pulitzer Prizes were a coming-out party for online media — and a marker of local newspapers’ decline
    For the first time ever, more online news sites produced Pulitzer finalists than newspapers did.
    Ken DoctorDecember 5, 2022
    Newsonomics: Two years after launching a local news company (in an Alden market), here’s what I’ve learned
    Eleven takeaways as Lookout Santa Cruz enters its third year.
    Ken DoctorApril 14, 2022
    Ken Doctor: 18 months after launching a local news company (in an Alden market), here’s what I’ve learned
    “The term ‘news desert’ has been a shorthand, but the real problem here and elsewhere is that this region lacked the number of journalists it needed to thoroughly inform the public.”
    Ken DoctorJune 17, 2021
    Ken Doctor: Six months after launching a local news company (in an Alden market), here’s what I’ve learned
    We don’t wake up each morning to compete with a print daily, but rather to run our own local news and community model. That’s the key.
    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.
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