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| | On the latest "What Works" podcast, Dan and Ellen talk with Bob Sprague, a pioneer in hyperlocal journalism and the founder ofyourArlington, a nonprofit news project that covers Arlington, Massachusetts. Bob, who has lived in Arlington since 1989, was not only the founder - he was the editor of the website until July 1 of...
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| | On the latest "What Works" podcast, Ellen and Dan talk with Paul Bass, the founder and former editor of theNew Haven Independent. Bass is originally from White Plains, New York, but he arrived in New Haven in the late 1970s to attend Yale, and he has been reporting on all the quirks and glory of...
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| | By Dan Kennedy The release of a new report by Penelope Muse Abernathy on the state of local news is always a big deal. For 15 years now, she's been tracking the extent of the crisis, and has done more than anyone to popularize the phrase "news deserts," which describes communities without a source of...
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| By Dan Kennedy One of the more interesting business models for local news that Ellen Clegg and I have encountered in our work is what you might call the hybrid for-profit/nonprofit. For-profit organizations such as The Mendocino Voice in Northern California, The Colorado Sun, the Storm Lake Times Pilot in Iowa and The Provincetown Independent...