The Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media exists to support established and emerging local news organizations through applied research on economic sustainability and entrepreneurship as well as innovative news and digital product solutions.
Reinventing Local News
Featured Project
Introducing Project Oasis
We're partnering with the Google News Initiative, LION Publishers and Doug Smith to create Project Oasis – a dynamic new endeavor to identify, share and implement the best practices that help local digital news models get started and succeed.
IN THE NEWS
Los Angeles Times editorial looks at strategies to save local newspapers
This Los Angeles Times editorial looks at key causes of…
Loss of local news compounds problems of struggling local governments
In a piece for The Atlantic, Ted C. Fishman examines…
The prevalence of Southern news deserts
This New York Times opinion piece by Margaret Renkl cites…
Nieman Lab profiles CISLM ‘Project Oasis’ partnership with Google and LION
Nieman Lab covered the March 18, 2020, announcement of Project…
BLOG POSTS
Digital technologies and the future of journalism
We are at the beginning of another revolutionary era in…
Case study: News Corp
News Corp is looking to its Australian markets and digital real…
Cultivating digital ‘oases’ in the local news landscape
The Google News Initiative announced Project Oasis today in a…
WATCH: Launching an email newsletter product in a local market
A twice-weekly with a storied history, The Pilot of Southern…