A growing number of people in academia, politics, and the news industry say an urgent response is needed, with new ideas about what local news organizations should look like. If a viable strategy does emerge, many analysts say it will likely involve an evolution with local news changing from a mostly for-profit ecosystem to a largely nonprofit one.
It was a big day for Chalkbeat: CEO and co-founder Elizabeth Green rang the Nasdaq opening bell this morning. The ceremony in Times Square marked Chalkbeat’s 10th anniversary and gave us a chance to talk about our mission — to tell the story of American education — in honor of the upcoming International Literacy Day.
This summer, scholars Nikki Usher and Sanghoon Kim-Leffingwell’s paper, “How Loud Does the Watchdog Bark?” was published in the International Journal of Press/Politics. This research is an indicator that nonprofit, local news organizations are beneficial to democracy — and that funding for the field is imperative.
Since the launch of award-winning Documented Semanal in 2019, our newsroom has developed a unique approach to engage with our audiences via WhatsApp. It is beyond just a distribution channel. It’s a conversation between a user and a journalist and it has become the engine of our reporting on Latino audiences in New York.
The Indiana Local News Initiative announced the hiring of its first editor-in-chief, Oseye Boyd. Boyd’s most recent role was engagement editor for IndyStar, and she was the editor-in-chief for the Indianapolis Recorder. Boyd was hired after an extensive search led by a committee of local and industry experts, including a panel of local residents.
“We think the nonprofit model is a really promising model for how to address the local news crisis in many markets because it opens up new lines of revenue that are demonstrating that they can work," Sarabeth Berman, CEO of the American Journalism Project (AJP), tells The Dispatch.
Deep South Today, the networked hub of nonprofit newsrooms serving the Southern region of the United States, today announced the appointment of Warwick Sabin as its inaugural president and CEO.
Cobb will bring notable experience in journalism and education and a strong vision for local nonprofit news to AJP’s board
The American Journalism Project, a nonprofit organization that aims to revitalize local media in the US, announced a ten-million-dollar partnership with OpenAI, the company that owns and operates the artificial-intelligence tool ChatGPT.
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