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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76 Gordon Borrell is (Finally) Bullish on Newspapers
75 Studying the Impact of a Pandemic on Global Journalism
74 Two Old Newspaper Sales Guys Talk Shop
73 Amplify Ohio: Addressing Health Disparities Impacting Black & LGBTQ Communities
72 The Internet Archive: Providing Universal Access to All Knowledge
71 New Jersey Weeklies Go Non-Profit
70 HD Media Taking on Tech Giants' Google & Facebook
69 Checking-In on the Locally Owned Silver City (N.M.) Daily Press
68 Trib Total Media, Proudly Printing 7-Days a Week
67 Local Community Newspaper is Printing Again!
66 Maximizing Media Ad Sales in the New Year
65 Local Media is Winning the COVID Battle for Eyeballs and Credibility
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63 Schneps Media is Rocking New York With Hyperlocal Free Weeklies
62 Managing Via Metrics = Profits for News Media Corporation
61 Vision25: Building Racial Equity in Newsrooms
59 Free Report shows Huge Content Marketing Opportunity
60 The LGBTQ+ Reader is Big Business for Aequalitas Media
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