Local News Industry Pulse
A weekly briefing of news, policy, trends, and more in the local news industry.
Plus: Vertical video is where your audience already is
Plus: Sixty years of covering Black Atlanta
Plus: Using AI to eliminate the grunt work
Plus: The indie rock station model for local media
Plus: Building local news from scratch in Baltimore
Plus: How a skeptic became his company's AI strategist + Launching a nonprofit newsroom in Austin
Plus: The least interesting thing you can do with AI in a newsroom + Higher ed is a local story no one is telling
Plus: From Facebook to the front page rebuilding local news in Maine + How New York Focus grew from $75K and a WordPress site
The community owned newsroom experiment + Straight news, no opinion, and 65 stories a day
How AI is reshaping media workflows right now + Building a sustainable model in New England
Plus: Thinking like an organizational detective in local media, The media moat is built on community & Building a one person newsroom that actually works
Plus: Why this publisher chose print over digital | What media gets wrong about audience data | The strategy behind SFGATE’s expansion across the West