Citizen and community news
These newspaper chain owners live where they publish
Local groups buy back community newspapers from big chains and invest in journalism.
Creating an audio newsletter to serve local Chinese communities
WeChat subscriptions and how to build your own.
Harnessing the power of communities to reinvent local journalism
Through communication and outreach, we are building a network of community members who are highly engaged with high school sports to contribute to the Sun.
How a Chicago News outlet changed its approach after community listening
Listening is just the beginning. News outlets must also make changes to their editorial and engagement strategies in response to what their community says.
How being a solopreneur has forced me to reckon with my limitations
Learning to set boundaries while I launch a news organization — amid a pandemic — is as important as learning to market and fundraise.
A roadmap for a way out of this mess
New report helps chart a path away from local news of old toward civic information systems.
A new ‘Potter Listening Tour:’ Local newspapers can still work, even with different paths
A different kind of “right sizing,” grants and donations, and tinkering with the balance of online and print are some of the ways.
How a newly founded newsroom is building community connections
AfroLA is making data-informed decisions to meet audiences where they are.
Rebuilding trust in media one community at a time
Our readers, viewers and listeners must become our advocates.
Solidarity journalism: An alternative practice
In coverage during and after climate and environmental disasters, stories tend to feature villains, protagonists, apocalyptic narratives and chaos. Catastrophe becomes the lens through which we see the community. But there is another way