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What Works in Community News: Media Startups, News Deserts, and the Future of the Fourth Estate

What Works in Community News: Media Startups, News Deserts, and the Future of the Fourth Estate

Clegg, Ellen
Kennedy, Dan

Hardcover

Business GeneralWriting InstructionGeneral Sociology

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ISBN10: 0807009946
ISBN13: 9780807009949
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: Jan 9 2024
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.05
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
A groundbreaking study of the journalism startups that are solving the local news crisis one community at a time

A must-read for activists, entrepreneurs, and journalists who want to start local news outlets in their communities

Local news is essential to democracy. Meaningful participation in civic life is impossible without it. However, local news is in crisis. According to one widely cited study, some 2,500 newspapers have closed over the last generation. And it is often marginalized communities of color who have been left without the day-to-day journalism they need to govern themselves in a democracy.

Veteran journalists Ellen Clegg and Dan Kennedy cut through the pessimism surrounding this issue, showing readers that new, innovative journalism models are popping up across the country to fill news deserts and empower communities. What Works in Community News examines more than a dozen of these projects, including:

  • Sahan Journal, a digital publication dedicated to reporting on Minnesota's immigrant and refugee communities;
  • MLK50: Justice Through Journalism, a nonprofit news outlet in Memphis, TN, focused on poverty, power, and public policy;
  • New Haven Independent / WNHH / La Voz Hispana de Connecticut, a digital news project that expanded its reach in the New Haven community through radio and a Spanish-language partnership;
  • Storm Lake Times Pilot, a print newspaper in rural Iowa innovating with a hybrid for-profit/nonprofit model; and
  • Texas Tribune, once a pioneering upstart, now one of the most well-known--and successful--digital newsrooms in the country.

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