Search Results: Local News

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...

• Entrepreneurship
• Local Journalism

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...

• Audience Engagement
• Reporting
• Revenue

Getting People to Pay for Local News Online

• Christine Taylor
• Audrey Cooper
• Edward Malthouse
• 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...

• Local Journalism
• Revenue

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...

• Local Journalism
• Revenue

How to Make Facebook Work for Your Local Newsroom

• Alyssa Passeggio
• Elaine Piniat
• Emily Ristow

Local news is definitionally what communities want and need to see, and this workshop from editors and directors at three local news institutions is how to hack social analytics...

• Audience Engagement
• Local Journalism

CrowdTangle Trends Report: How Is Local News Performing on Facebook in 2019?

• Amber Burgess
• Emily Ristow
• Heather Ciras
• Glen Hale

This event is presented by Facebook Be the first to see CrowdTangle’s U.S. Local News Trends Report, an analysis of how local news is performing on Facebook so far in 2019. This...

• Audience Engagement
• Local Journalism

Lessons From the Instagram Local News Fellowship

• Devin Smith
• Elaine Vydra
• Emily Dunn
• Grace Lett
• Moderated by Nico Gendron

This event is presented by Facebook In June 2019, Instagram and the Missouri School of Journalism kicked off the Instagram Local News Fellowship placing three of the journalism...

• Audience Engagement

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...

• Local Journalism