Ellen Clegg and Dan Kennedy have become recognized and respected news media analysts with their highly listened to podcast series: “What Works. The future of local news.” However recently, Clegg a three-decade Boston Globe veteran who helped get a few Pulitzer Prizes for the paper and Kennedy a Northeastern University journalism professor who writes the Media Nation blog, have released a critically acclaimed book entitled: “What Works in Community News: Media Startups, News Deserts, and the Future of the Fourth Estate,” that explores how a number of news media operations seem to be on their way to finding sustainable local journalism business models.
Some of the local media companies they examine, include the Sahan Journal, a digital publication reporting on Minnesota’s immigrant communities, the Storm Lake Times Pilot, a legacy print newspaper in Iowa, published by Pulitzer Prize winner Art Cullen, who developed a hybrid for-profit/nonprofit model, the New Haven Independent , a multilingual, digital news project that expanded its audience through radio and others.
In this episode of “E&P Reports” we spend 20-minutes with Ellen Clegg and Dan Kennedy the authors of the new book: “What Works in Community News,” to learn how they selected the featured nine media operations and why they believed these are worth exploring to find models for sustainable local journalism. Clegg a seasoned editor and local news media entrepreneur along with Kennedy a respected professor of Journalism also offer advice gleaned from the book to news publishing executives on how to navigate the challenging and ever-changing local news media ecosystem.
220 Word in Black's journey from a pilot project to a public benefit corporation
219 Media sales icon Chris Lytle shares tried and true insights that still apply today.
218 A new film tells a story of how hedge funds are destroying local journalism.
217 The future of “big tech” compensation, now that Google's $100 million deal with Canada is law
216 Shannon Kinney’s entrepreneurial advice
215 Ashanti Blaize-Hopkins. A one-on-one with the SPJ’s new president.
214 Marty Baron discusses his new book, his experiences at The Post and his views on news media today
213 Unpacking the Medill "State of Local News" report
212 A 16-year-old launches a news site that is out-reporting the local Gannett "ghost paper."
211 An email cry for help saves this 138-year-old newspaper from extinction
210 Ryan Dohrn’s “ad sales punch list” to maximize revenue into 2024.
209 Small North Carolina community is now a two-newspaper town.
208 Branding is back: The latest Borrell study un-packed.
207 Checking in with the Chicago Sun-Times/ Public Media merger.
206 Community leaders speak frankly about losing their local paper and having a new publication start within 30 days.
205 A mission is to transform global news coverage by recruiting, training and then employing women journalists world-wide.
204 Arizona's newspaper and broadcast associations merge into Arizona Media Association.
203 A reluctant witness for Google’s antitrust defense. One-on-One with, Kenny Katzgrau
202 One-on-one with industry veteran John Ellis
201 Exploring NOLA Advocate’s digital-only Shreveport expansion into a Gannett market that still prints six days a week.
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