For this project, we wanted to lead with curiosity to understand the demand for advertising – how media buyers make decisions, plan and allocate their budgets and think about local.
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Protecting the Record: Tips from journalists, librarians on digital preservation in evolving tech era
In the digital media world, with changing story formats, technology tools, the rise of AI and frequent media ownership changes, digital preservation of local news stories is a challenge. How can news organizations preserve their work for the future?
6 things to know about the Agora Journalism Center
Andrew DeVigal, endowed chair in journalism innovation and civic engagement at the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism & Communication, is also director of the Agora Journalism Center. DeVigal spoke to CISLM to give an overview of his work at the center.
Q&A with rural media researcher, Nick Mathews
“In most rural areas in particular — and that’s where I study a lot — there’s a huge need for local news. I mean, there’s nowhere else for these folks to get the news themselves.”
‘Tar Heel Bus Tour’ stop spotlights rural news solutions
The Whiteville News Reporter and High’s Border Belt Independent co-hosted the stop about rural local news on the 2023 Tar Heel Bus Tour East.
On the balcony: Leadership lessons with Sarah Nagem
CISLM is looking back at six years in local news transformation: “Is this a story that really needs to be told, and will it make a difference? And (Table Stakes) really helped me step back and focus on those questions.”
On the balcony: Leadership lessons with Fernando Soto
CISLM is looking back at six years in local news transformation: “One of the most important things to being a leader is to be coachable, to be able to listen and to acknowledge that I don’t have all the right answers all the time.”
On the balcony: Leadership lessons with Hadley Hitson
CISLM is looking back at six years in local news transformation: “It’s definitely made any sort of goal seem more attainable because we have gone through this process step-by-step:”
On the balcony: Leadership lessons with Bill Horner III
CISLM is looking back at six years in local news transformation: “What we learned through Table Stakes was to break things down into pieces and to focus.”
Variety of state legislative supports for local news media act as a series of experiments
Directing government funds to local news is the most commonly proposed method of support proposed in state legislation, with increasing interest among state legislatures in supporting local news media.