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.
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116 A preview of Borrell Miami
115 An update on the antitrust case against Google & Facebook
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110 Urgent and Sustained Advocacy Needed for the LJSA
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108 Fighting for a Native American free press
107 Prognostications, predictions and prophecies from industry execs
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105 Behind Raw Story’s Progressive Mission
104 Fighting PIO chokepoints
103 Word in Black: Helping the Black Press Survive & Thrive
102 One File Helps Distinguish Between Real & Fake News
101 Radically Rural: Focusing on small-town America
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