In the first 18 months, The Oglethorpe Echo added digital products, won awards, tripled advertising, and doubled subscriptions. An unmitigated success, right? It’s a bit more complicated than that.
With more than 50 participating newsrooms led by The Daily Yonder and the agribusiness-focused Investigate Midwest, the multi-year effort will be the nonprofit group’s largest collaboration ever.
“If the Iowa Falls newspaper writes about its hospital for two years, it’s an Iowa Falls problem that Iowa Falls has to solve…And by the time you’re talking about a major region of the nation like that, it becomes a national problem to be solved.”
Ellis, Justin. "Knight Foundation funds data, rural, and enviro news projects." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 6 Sep. 2012. Web. 27 Apr. 2024.
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Chicago
Ellis, Justin. "Knight Foundation funds data, rural, and enviro news projects." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified September 6, 2012. Accessed April 27, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2012/09/knight-foundation-funds-data-rural-and-enviro-news-projects/.
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