News and Resources
NewStart Alliance Newsletter Topics
- The Chicago Defender’s Digital Transition, One Year Later
- Radically Rural Takes In-Person Conference Online
- Iowa Media Entrepreneur Turns Layoff Into Ownership Opportunity
- What Can Journalists Learn From Musicians? An Interview With Mike Doughty
- How Iowa News Leaders Share Ideas During a Pandemic
- Seeing The Light: Pittsburgh City Paper’s Fight To Survive
- Bringing the NOISE: Omaha Publication Finding New Ways To Reach Audiences
- An Alaskan Weekly Can Be Yours For A Little Sweat Equity
- Foothills Forum: From Staff of One To ‘Supercharged’ Weekly Newspaper
- Insanity & Prosperity: One Weekly Publisher’s Story
NewStart in the News
- This local journalist studied other locally owned newsrooms. Here’s what he found. (Poynter)
- In the rural heartland, indie newspapers survive with a back-to-basics approach (Media Nation)
- Addressing the information gap for Black West Virginians (Columbia Journalism Review)
- In search of the next generation of local media owners (Columbia Journalism Review)
- A Replanting Strategy: Saving Local Newspapers Squeezed by Hedge Funds (Steven Waldman)
- Local News and Community Resiliency in Appalachia (Michael Clay Carey)
- This fellowship wants to find the next generation of newspaper owners (Poynter)
- McDowell County paper is now online – “Our side of the story matters” (WV Community Development Hub)
- NewStart Program Will Be ‘Matchmaker’ for Small Media Seeking New Owners (Medill Local News Initiative)
- On Media: Become a newspaper publisher. No, really. NewStart can help. (NextPittsburgh)
- Who wants to own their own newspaper? NewStart’s here to help (It’s All Journalism)
- Want To Support Community Journalism? WVU Says Buy A Newspaper (WESA Pittsburgh)
- Training the next generation of small newspaper owners in West Virginia and beyond (Newspaper Research Journal)
- West Virginia initiative seeks to recruit, train and support new rural community newspaper owners and publishers (Rural Blog)
- It’s a buyer’s market for community weeklies, but buyers are needed; how about it, refugees from metropolitan papers? (Rural Blog)
- Help Wanted: West Virginia Is Looking for the Next Generation of Local Newspaper Owners (Nieman Reports)
Interesting Articles
- That big-city job isn’t the only place you can thrive (Poynter)
- From paper routes to free food: local news evolves to stay afloat (The
Christian Science Monitor) - Our Towns: There’s Hope for Local Journalism (The Atlantic)
- In Youngstown, an American city loses its only daily newspaper — and it won’t be the last (Nieman Lab)
- The Rural Blog, by the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues (University of Kentucky)
- After the Valley Independent Closed its Doors, Former Employees Breathed New Life Into It (Editor & Publisher)
Tips and Advice
- These are some of the biggest lessons learned from publishers taking part in
the GNI Subscriptions Lab (Local Media Association) - Why great reporting and writing are not enough (Poynter)
- The Tyler Loop: Growing membership with events and newsletters (Reynolds Journalism Institute)
- How The Durango Herald created a storytelling series to connect with its community (BetterNews.org)
- Behind the success of The Seattle Times’ Morning Brief newsletter (Poynter)
Grants and Funding Opportunities
Case Studies
- The Expanding News Desert (UNC Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media)
- How today’s news publishers can use data, best practices, and test-and-learn tactics to build better pay-meters (Shorenstein Center & Lenfest Institute)
- The next media regime: The pursuit of ‘audience engagement’ in journalism (Jacob L. Nelson)
- Business Models for Local News: A Field Scan (Shorenstein Center)
- Learning to Listen: Building a culture of engagement in newsrooms (Lenfest Institute)
- A Landscape Study of Local News Models Across America (Shorenstein Center)
- A useful guide for news organisations assessing revenue-making opportunities in small teams (Engaged Journalism Accelerator)
- A Fresh Take on Revenue Models (Stanford University’s eCorner)
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