Search Results: Local News
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Bringing Local News Back: Leveraging Independent Content Creators to Help Irrigate News Deserts
- Vincent Wu
- Greg Vederman
- Jamie Burton
Shifting reading habits, social media, and 24-hour cable news have created “news deserts” throughout the country, where local news no longer exists. News Break will be...
How Instagram Fellows Are Helping Transform Local Newsrooms
Meet three young journalists who spent their college break in local newsrooms across the country developing and implementing an Instagram strategy that supports each publisher’s...
JSK Local News Showcase
- Cheryl Phillips
- Bryan Pollard
This event is presented by John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships at Stanford Delve into the work of Stanford’s Big Local News, which collects, processes and shares hard-to-find...
Platform Partnership Roundup for Local News
- Josh Mabry
- Amy Adams Harding
- Gary Roundtree
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Moderated by Amalie Nash
Major tech platforms have announced partnerships, funding and other opportunities for local news at a dizzying pace over the past year. In this session, we’ll clarify which...
Whose Local News? Online Avenues to Trust With Diverse Audiences
- Mukhtar Ibrahim
- Priscilla Villarreal
- Brenda Murphy
- Rocio Tirado
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Moderated by Daniela Gerson
Three innovating digital newsrooms share how they are connecting with communities that local news outlets were failing to reach. Their techniques include viral live video, SMS and...
A Practical Guide to Local Newsroom Innovation
- Sarah Schmalbach
- Kim Fox
Learn how to start a newsroom innovation lab or better use the one you have with this comprehensive conversation about the nitty-gritty details undergirding a strong innovative...
Local News Highlights: New Orleans
- Tyree Worthy
- Marta Jewson
- Lauchlin Fields
- Thomas Planchet
Close your conference with some local color and hear from some of the most important and innovative voices making journalism in the print, broadcast and digital space across...
Getting People to Pay for Local News Online
- Christine Taylor
- Audrey Cooper
- Edward Malthouse
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Moderated by Tim Franklin
Going beyond page views and duration, analysts with Northwestern’s Medill School delved into reader and subscriber behavior data from 16 news markets large and small and will...
Real Life Local News Revenue Experiments (That Aren’t Advertising)
- David Cohn
- Christopher Wink
- Kim Bui
- André Natta
The myriad and manifest funding challenges facing local news won’t be resolved by the whims of the big global brands or via incremental tweaks to an old advertising model, but...