November 14, 2014
10 Crowdfunding Lessons From The Radiotopia Kickstarter Campaign
The Radiotopia Kickstarter campaign comes to a close today after raising more than $600,000 from nearly 22,000 fans. The success of a campaign like this is a complex…
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November 10, 2014
Five Kinds of Listening for Newsrooms and Communities
In 2002 NPR’s vice president for diversity, then a faculty member at the Poynter Institute, described an idea he called “The Listening Post.” “Journalists interested in telling more of a community’s…
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October 31, 2014
Local Fix: News Design as Plumbing, Building for Trust and Working With Freelancers
Welcome to the Local Fix. Each week we look at key debates in journalism sustainability and community engagement through the lens of local news, starting with one good idea... One…
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October 30, 2014
Unlocking the Secrets to Foundation Funding
For media and journalism organizations, understanding how to get and keep funding from philanthropic foundations is often a mystery. Part of the problem is that foundations on the…
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October 28, 2014
Freelance Journalism and Small Newsrooms: Best Practices, Links and Resources
What are the best practices for small hyperlocal news start-ups to ethically cultivate a network of freelancers and community contributors? This question has been gnawing at me for awhile…
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October 24, 2014
Local Fix: Making Time, Community Tools, Revenue Everywhere and Poetry
Welcome to the Local Fix. Each week we look at key debates in journalism sustainability and community engagement through the lens of local news, starting with one good idea... One…
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October 17, 2014
LocalFix: What we can learn from cutting edge journalism projects
I've got a slightly different format for the Local Fix this week, but we will still start with one good idea: One Good Idea: Be State Smart. The nonpartisan…
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October 10, 2014
Local Fix: New Revenue Ideas, Fearing Facebook and Does Local Scale?
Welcome to the Local Fix - we are catching up on a few past issues - this is from the week of Oct 10. Each week we look at key…
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October 7, 2014
Local Fix: News in My Ear, Mixed Message on Mobile and Algorithmic Ads
Subscribe to the LocalFix. Each week we look at key debates in journalism sustainability and community engagement through the lens of local news, starting with one good idea... One…