I wish I had known then… (advice from a founder and executive director on building a mission-first newsroom with impact) Sarah Alvarez and Candice Fortman have worked together closely for four year...
Events - local news
The local news ecosystem is broken. Big data can help fix it. Crosstown, based out of the University of Southern California, harnesses data to report on crucial local issues at a fraction of the cost ...
Foreign reporting can be extractive - ‘stringers’ and ‘fixers’ are hired who have an ‘in’ with communities and a deep knowledge of countries and contexts. In many ways, these local journal...
Building communities around critical beats: the role of local journalists across the globe
This interactive presentation showcases the work of public interest journalism across the globe around critical beat reporting such as the environment, climate change, labor markets, gender issues, co...
Local journalism is in an existential crisis. As journalists, we often ask, ‘Who's going to save local journalism?’ – meaning, ‘who's going to pay for it?’. Given the scale of the problem, w...