Two years ago, when Lisa Snowden and her small team were preparing to re-launch the Baltimore Beat, the whole team spent a few days together considering who they wanted their audience to be, the kind of stories that would best serve their audience and how to best reach them. “I think those conversations served us…
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The idea of a “small but mighty” newsroom is deeply ingrained in the mind of Kari Hulac, the editor-in-chief of Richmondside, a new independent, free, nonprofit online newsroom covering the city of Richmond, California, and the latest offering of the Cityside Journalism Initiative. “We are very small but we have the small but mighty mentality…
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Daralyse Lyons, business growth officer at the Chestnut Hill Local, discusses a Lenfest grant of $100,000 to help the paper expand readership and its reader demographic in Philadelphia and Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
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Nic Dawes, executive director of The City, discuses how the independent, nonprofit newsroom fills the gap in local news coverage of New York City, following the closures or shrinkage of the New York Daily News and DNAInfo.
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Allison Taylor Levine, CEO of Local Journalism Initiative, discusses how LJI’s Delaware Journalism Collaborative, which has brought more than 25 partners throughout the state together to report on polarization and possible solutions, strengthens local journalism in Delaware and our democracy.
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Press Forward was started to think about how do you galvanize funders and donors to think more broadly about the importance of local news, according to director Dale Anglin.
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