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“It shouldn’t be that difficult to keep an updated list of when and where and what the meetings are.”
State law might be able to support the funding of local news the way it supports the funding of local libraries.
“I really believe in the power of people to organize and advocate from the bottom up to create some solutions to this. I don’t think these solutions are going to come out of commercial media.”
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.”
The dollar amount isn’t huge, and it will barely put a dent in the crisis of local news. But it’s also an official statement that communities’ information voids are a problem worthy of government attention.
Local news consortiums, labs, associations, and more.
Working together doesn’t always come easy to news organizations. Here are the hurdles — and how best to get around them.