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Articles tagged local media (8)

Joshua BentonJanuary 8, 2020

Don’t expect McConnell’s Paradox to help news publishers get real money out of Google and Facebook

Republicans and Democrats are (surprisingly!) teaming up to help news organizations negotiate with the tech giants. But it’s unlikely to have a substantial impact on the dysfunctional relationship between publishers and platforms.

Christine SchmidtApril 15, 2019

Courting future business models: Are public media and scrappy startups the next trend for mergers?

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.”

Christine SchmidtApril 11, 2019

Experience experiments: What Whereby.Us’s membership model looks like after adding a Spirited Media site

“I would love to be in 25 cities and I wish we could’ve lived up to that. The financial reality and the operational reality of it was not quite ready for that.”

Christine SchmidtJuly 24, 2017

Wyoming regional media nonprofit WyoFile has been diving deep into local news for almost ten years

“Wyoming is a microcosm of a lot of what is happening in America today. It represents a subset of American society that I think we’ve learned you can only ignore at your own risk.”

Shan WangNovember 18, 2016

This Vermont-focused nonprofit news site is looking to podcasting to add new revenue streams

The seven-year-old VTDigger, with a stable readership of Vermonters, eyes the booming audio space as an opportunity to expand underwriter support.

How a pop-up newsroom helped a Boston news nonprofit connect with readers

Justin EllisJanuary 21, 2015

Can Ratter turn local news into national headlines?

“The specific goal I told them was to alienate the local readership”: The new startup from former Gawker editor A.J. Daulerio is taking an irreverent and investigative approach to local news.

Is local broadcast media headed for a collapse?