“I really believe in the power of people to organize and advocate from the bottom up to create some solutions to this. I don’t think these solutions are going to come out of commercial media.”
NJ Spotlight and NJTV News may be onto a trend: “Really the quality of the journalism and business model made it viable for us and make it viable for the other legacy stations around the country.”
The dollar amount isn’t huge, and it will barely put a dent in the crisis of local news. But it’s also an official statement that communities’ information voids are a problem worthy of government attention.
Lichterman, Joseph. "“Once-in-a-lifetime opportunity”: Local news could see a windfall from the FCC’s spectrum auction." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 5 Jan. 2017. Web. 26 Feb. 2020.
APA
Lichterman, J. (2017, Jan. 5). “Once-in-a-lifetime opportunity”: Local news could see a windfall from the FCC’s spectrum auction. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved February 26, 2020, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2017/01/once-in-a-lifetime-opportunity-local-news-could-see-a-windfall-from-the-fccs-spectrum-auction/
Chicago
Lichterman, Joseph. "“Once-in-a-lifetime opportunity”: Local news could see a windfall from the FCC’s spectrum auction." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified January 5, 2017. Accessed February 26, 2020. https://www.niemanlab.org/2017/01/once-in-a-lifetime-opportunity-local-news-could-see-a-windfall-from-the-fccs-spectrum-auction/.
Wikipedia
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