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As audiences have shifted attention to OTT, Connected TV and other streaming platforms, so have digital advertising buyers and sellers. How do local media outlets cash in on the rapid growth of video streaming? Jay Small Penny Riordan localmedia.org/2023/10/how-to…

These funds support programs such as the lab for journalism funding, branded content project, family/independent media sustainability lab & much more! All amounts are greatly appreciated.

📢Exciting News! @NewsIsOut & Word In Black, LGBTQ+ & Black media leaders, join forces with Comcast NBCUniversal for The Digital Equity Local Voices Lab! Through Project UP, Comcast donates $1M+ to uplift Black-owned & LGBTQ+-owned media. localmedia.org/2024/02/comcas…

New today: I’m excited to share this industry report Sustaining Philanthropy for Journalism, filled with best practices from news outlets in the Local Media Association Lab for Journalism Funding, with sustained support from Google News Initiative . Free to download: localmedia.org/2024/02/lma-pu…

Dropping knowledge at #KMF24: Sonny Messiah Jiles shares how Knight x Local Media Association BloomLab has helped 26 publishers save $2.5M through negotiating agreements at scale.

Love this panel, giving local news disruptors the chance to call out the partners who’ve enabled them to grow and thrive, including: Institute for Nonprofit News, American Journalism Project, Report for America, Local Media Association, and News Revenue Hub plus with local & national funders, and technology partners. #KMF24

#KMF24: Knight’s VP of journalism, Jim Brady talks with publishers who have effectively used new tools to help save time and money, helping them produce journalism that matters to their communities, and figure out how to make enough money to keep doing it.

Love this. Let’s go!!!

Yes to this! In response to Q from Sara Fischer Axios re all the ‘doom and gloom’ stories about local news, Maribel Pérez Wadsworth says: “I wish we could spend as much time celebrating all the good things happening in local news.” /1

“Just yesterday, listening to Sonny Messiah Jiles, I mean – just preach, please! Hearing about her work in Houston…and hearing from Wendi C. Thomas about the work of MLK50: Justice Through Journalism …I don’t want us to lose sight of the many things that are working.” #KMF24 /2

And Wadsworth also cites PJ Browning and the The Post and Courier and how as a for-profit they are expanding their coverage for the Carolinas. Yes! A healthy local news ecosystem needs many players…and we need to talk more about these successes! #KMF24

He was an amazing, wonderful man and will be missed.

Google fires a shot across the bow of the California legislature over CJPA: testing removing links to news & pausing further money to California media. Here's my new paper on CJPA's problems & some alternatives: drive.google.com/drive/folders/… Google: blog.google/products/news/…

Note well that Meta has already said it would completely pull out of news in California -- as it did in Canada after its C-18 -- if CJPA passes: x.com/andymstone/sta…

Maybe programmatic disappears. Maybe retrans revenue goes away. Maybe platforms stop sending any traffic to our sites. What COULD we do? Just askin' ... #lookforsilverlinings

Growing up in Southern Illinois, I remember coal mine subsidence episodes that ate long swaths of state highways and created large ponds on what was flat farm land. The region is full of decades-old mines.

Target has Starbucks, it’s time Menards gets this

All of us at LMA/LMF are thrilled to take this next step in our long-term plan. Congrats to Liz White, and to Nancy Lane for taking on a key role for us!

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Allen Media Group, who owns and operates 22 local "big 4" television stations across the US, and also coincidentally, The Weather Channel, has decided to cut costs by eliminating the jobs of every local meteorologist at all of their stations. all of them. a🧵