Amber Healy

631. Chestnut Hill Local seeks to grow readership in underserved communities

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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630. The City uses impactful, mission-oriented journalism to cover New York City

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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629. How digital video is becoming the go-to platform for delivering local news

Fran Wills, CEO of the Local Media Consortium, discusses how digital video has become the go-to news and information source for a growing number of people and what that means for local news.

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628. Informed debate is reporting that spurs conversation: Carrie Melago

Carrie Melago discusses how Chalkbeat, the education-focused, local newsroom, tracks impact rather than just chasing clicks.

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627. How peer support can help journalists facing online abuse and secondary trauma

Viktorya Vilk and Jeje Mohamed wrote a report for PEN America with Columbia University’s Susan McGregor that focused on using peer support to reduce harm and increase resilience against the online abuse of journalists in the U.S.

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626. New book documents the fight to kill the Atlantic Coast Pipeline

Jonathan Mingle is a freelance journalist and the author of a new book, “Gaslight: The Atlantic Coast Pipeline and the Fight for America’s Energy Future,” which documents how Virginia communities pushed back against Dominion Energy’s Atlantic Coast Pipeline Project.

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