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June 25, 2015
I recently spoke to CUNY’s Summer Entrepreneurial Journalism Training about alternative revenue streams and business models for news. Below is a list of 52 revenue strategies…
May 15, 2015
The Lo-Down, a six-year-old community news site and monthly magazine on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, just launched a very smart crowdfunding…
May 11, 2015
One of our partner sites, New Brunswick Today, recently completed a successful crowdfunding campaign. I talked with the editor there and went…
April 27, 2015
Communities and news organizations working together will transform local journalism. Here’s how. By Molly de Aguiar and Josh Stearns @grdodgemedia | @jcstearns The…
April 13, 2015
(This post originally appeared in our weekly newsletter, The Local Fix. Subscribe here.) In early April four major reports were released that address the intersection of local journalism, revenue sustainability and…
March 24, 2015
Thoughts on Distributed Content and Building Community from A Facebook-Only News Site The New York Times is reporting on Facebook’s pitch to get news organizations…
March 23, 2015
In early February the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation and the Center for Cooperative Media and Montclair State University hosted Melody Kramer for an all…
January 29, 2015
This guest post by Amy Gahran originally appeared on the Knight Digital Media Center website. It is reposted here with permission. Like any publisher, people who provide community news…
January 21, 2015
Local, hard-hitting watchdog journalism is alive and kicking in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The team behind New Brunswick Today is taking on some of the area’s most important stories,…
October 10, 2014
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…
August 26, 2014
The American Press Institute just published a terrific report with lessons from nearly 20 news organizations who are building their event strategy. If your newsroom is interested in face-to-face…
July 23, 2014
When you see something working for one news organization, it is tempting to want to replicate that in your own newsroom. But if you duplicate a model wholesale you risk…
June 12, 2014
Journalism has long brought us together through shared rituals – reading the morning paper, watching the evening news – but as people find the news on more platforms, on their…
