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 initiatives are underway, … Learn about this subject.
Whose Local News? Online Avenues to Trust With Diverse Audiences
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 internet radio, following … Learn about this subject.
A Practical Guide to Local Newsroom Innovation
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 team, from funding … Learn about this subject.
Local News Highlights: New Orleans
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 Louisiana and … Learn about this subject.
Getting People to Pay for Local News Online
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 present research findings … Learn about this subject.
Real Life Local News Revenue Experiments (That Aren’t Advertising)
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 … Learn about this subject.
How to Make Facebook Work for Your Local Newsroom
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 to … Learn about this subject.
CrowdTangle Trends Report: How Is Local News Performing on Facebook in 2019?
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 … Learn about this subject.
Lessons From the Instagram Local News Fellowship
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 school’s 2019 … Learn about this subject.
JSK Local News Showcase
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 government data and … Learn about this subject.