Tag: Lion Publishers
12 innovative community news projects that built trust and relationships
From student-led newsletters to cafecitos and audio history, the Community-Centered Symposium helped newsrooms and support orgs connect with their communities.
LION Publishers
This was the first time in my role as Community Manager at LION that I’ve created a project with the goal of deepening a cohort’s engagement with each other virtually.
![Cara Kuhlman [right] leads a walking tour for her news outlet, Future Tides. Tour participants hold a sign reading “Future Tides.”](https://rjionline.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/03/iif25031905.png)
Walking tours for community engagement
A conversation with Cara Kuhlman, Future Tides.
Innovation in Focus at the Radically Rural summit
The Reynolds Journalism Institute’s (RJI) Innovation in Focus series, featuring RJI partnerships with community news organizations to experiment with new strategies and technology, will touch down later this month at the Radically Rural summit in Keene, New Hampshire (register here). It’s the latest opportunity for small and rural news organizations to connect with Emily Lytle, … Continued
Building operational tools for independent news organizations
This resource will help news organizations be more strategic, efficient and effective, reducing strain on founders, journalists and operations professionals alike.
Creating a values-based startup culture and evolving over time
A conversation with Arizona Luminaria.
Recentering and refocusing to make a founding newsroom sustainable
My plan for Four Points Media and a balanced future.
How a pop-up community newsroom shed light on wildfire health impacts in Boulder, Colorado
We’re building a guide to help newsrooms fill voids in deep-dive reporting with their communities.
The highs and lows of launching multiple products in a news startup
Project Optimist launched with a single product and now works on multiple fronts.
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.