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“I’m not worried about the journalism. But if you don’t have the business and technical infrastructure to support the journalism, then it’s just not going to thrive.”
Local news consortiums, labs, associations, and more.
“We could use Sunday print to boost us into the stratosphere, to get us into a stable orbit where we can launch other things.”
The chase for short-term gain is undercutting local papers’ long-term position in the community — the one asset national outlets and tech companies can’t match, argues a former editor at Digital First Media.
Not in the rote, paperwork-and-process sense of HR. Newsrooms aren’t good enough at finding, using, and improving the talents of their staffs.
The search for a scalable, money-making model for hyperlocal journalism continues, but there are some reasons for optimism.
Dan Kennedy, who’s writing a book about the New Haven Independent, hopes it will reverse its decision to suspend user comments.
March 25, 2011