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Time to move past the dividing lines of "legacy" local news vs. "new" -- & "commercial" vs. "non-profit". The real split is between community-based media that is mission driven & news driven too much by hedge funds, stock price or debt repayment needs. editorandpublisher.com/stories/in-def…

.Stephanie Ruhle sits down with Steven Waldman to talk about the danger & consequences of news deserts and the need to support local news.

U are kindly invited to a webinar with Sarah Stonbely -currently serving as the director of the State of Local News Project. She monitors and analyzes the current state of local media across USA. Interested in participation? Register here: forms.gle/igRPXroFHccY5G… #publicControl

"The most ambitious package of local journalism policy," says Anna Brugmann Rebuild Local News, about the result of the bipartisan Illinois Local Journalism Task Force. localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2024/02/… by Mark Caro

Wealthier, urban Americans have access to more local news – while roughly half of US counties have only one outlet or less theconversation.com/wealthier-urba… via The Conversation U.S.

Last call for applicants for this awesome role as Resolve Philly's Chief Program Officer. Super fun position, and we'd get to work together on the daily 😃 Gotta be in the PHL area, or eager to move here. Deadline to apply: March 4 resolvephilly.org/CPO

Voices in Urban and Rural New York Shed Light on America’s Crossroads from American Communities Project American Communities Project; WNYC 🎙; POLITICO New York americancommunities.org/voices-in-urba…

Roughly Half of Counties Have One Local News Outlet or Less governing.com/management-and…

Monk, Coltrane and the Five Spot in NYC: A hotbed of innovation for jazz in the 50s wbgo.org/music/2024-03-…

Tonight: Join ⁦@NJUrbNews⁩ and ⁦Public Square Amplified⁩ for a conversation with Larry Hamm, Chairman of People's Organization For Progress and U.S. Senate candidate in the 2024 New Jersey Democratic Primary and author Annette Alston.

Breaking Barriers to Connectivity in a Michigan College Town – American Communities Project americancommunities.org/breaking-barri…

By going into communities and talking to people, Dante Chinni Ari Pinkus American Communities Project reveal the diversity behind the shared opinion ‘the country is on the wrong track.’ Qualitative research of this kind is more vital today than ever. theconversation.com/talking-to-ame… via The Conversation U.S.

Landmark legislation provides $90 million in tax credits for NYS local news. The policy work for this milestone comes from Rebuild Local News, a small but mighty non-profit with a full-time staff of 5! #PressForward axios.com/2024/04/21/ny-…

Of the 11 outlets that won journalism Pulitzers, none were owned by hedge funds, 0 owned by private equity, 2 in publicly traded companies, 4 were nonprofit, 5 were family owned #futureoflocalnews

"This year’s Pulitzer Prizes were a coming-out party for online media — and a marker of local newspapers’ decline" niemanlab.org/2024/05/this-y…

Not good. Is this a lobby-your-congressperson situation? Like I don't even know. apnews.com/article/data-c…

What happens when local outlets are bought and gutted? They become ghosts... I established a method for identifying such outlets in 2017: centerforcooperativemedia.org/wp-content/upl… "Strapped for resources, local coverage of Trump shooting all looked the same" axios.com/2024/07/16/tru…

Their %s compare favorably to overall population %s in the U.S. Kudos The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/pr/2024/08/01/…

Looking forward to reading this new report from Amy Mitchell, Celeste LeCompte, and Daniela Flores via Center for News, Technology & Innovation - CNTI What Defines News, Journalism and Journalists  innovating.news/article/defini…