Local Journalism
Real Life Local News Revenue Experiments (That Aren’t Advertising)
- David Cohn
- Christopher Wink
- Kim Bui
- André Natta
The myriad and manifest funding challenges facing local news won’t be resolved by the whims of the big global brands or via incremental tweaks to an old advertising model, but...
Whose Local News? Online Avenues to Trust With Diverse Audiences
- Mukhtar Ibrahim
- Priscilla Villarreal
- Brenda Murphy
- Rocio Tirado
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Moderated by Daniela Gerson
Three innovating digital newsrooms share how they are connecting with communities that local news outlets were failing to reach. Their techniques include viral live video, SMS and...
Make FOIA Work: Participatory Design Field Guide
Can journalists employ Freedom of Information Act requests to meaningfully engage communities in dialogue about issues that matter to them? How might FOIA, data, and information...
Retha Hill on the Local News Landscape from an Academic’s Perspective
From the 2019 Accelerate: Local News Summit in Denver, Colorado, ASU Cronkite School’s Retha Hill presents on the Local News Landscape from an Academic’s Perspective.
Breaking Records and Answering Questions: Nordic Local Election Coverage
- Magnus Bjerg
- Fredrik Laurin
- Teemo Tebest
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Moderated by Sarita Blomqvist
Few news sites’ best-ever traffic day was a local election, but for one Danish publisher, hyperlocal, highly-personalized mobile applications helped hook readers like never...
How Facebook is Going for Local News
- Sarah Whitmire
- Anthony Quintano
- Cal Lundmark
- Kurt Gessler
In early 2018, Facebook made a series of large-scale changes to its Newsfeed and to the system used to track these changes, sending shockwaves through the news industry. By...
Inside Facebook Journalism Project: 2018 Priorities for Local News
- Josh Mabry
Josh Mabry joins us from Facebook’s Local News Partnerships team to share an update on the Facebook Journalism Project’s work to support local news. Take an in-depth look...
Let’s Talk About What Works With Local
- JJ Hensley
- Steven Waldman
- Amy Adams Harding
- Lance Knobel
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Moderated by Chrissy Towle
In a set of lightning sessions with journalists, researchers, publishers and technologists from across North America, you’ll hear first hand about what key leaders are thinking...
The City As The City Desk
- Tracie Powell
- Aaron Foley
- Aparna Mukherjee
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Moderated by Niala Boodhoo
Successive generations of conglomeration, contraction, disruption and atomization have left serious gaps in local coverage everywhere in the news media. For Detroit and Los...