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Partnerships and Collaboration

National Trust for Local News CEO & Co-Founder Elizabeth Hansen Shapiro argues for taking an ecosystem approach to local news and highlights impactful industry collaborations across the US, advising how newsrooms can make use of available tools and build new resources.

BY Aspen Digital & 1 more

Longform

08.22.2022
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Funding and Revenue Models

Lenfest Institute Executive Director & CEO Jim Friedlich explores how nonprofit and for-profit newsrooms can learn from one another and blend their approaches to funding.

BY Aspen Digital & 1 more

Longform

08.22.2022
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Healing Polarized Communities

The 19th* Co-Founder & Publisher Amanda Zamora discusses the real-life harms of polarization, the struggles of local news, and what outlets can do to help bridge communal divides.

BY Aspen Digital & 1 more

Longform

08.22.2022
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Designing for Community

URL Media Co-Founder & CEO S. Mitra Kalita questions the definition of "local news" and synthesizes recommendations for how outlets can meet the needs of their audiences and scale their impact.

BY Aspen Digital & 1 more

Longform

08.22.2022
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Signposts for the Future of Local News

The crisis in local news has accelerated rapidly in recent years. Just how stark is the situation? Between late 2019 and May 2022, more than 360 American newspapers closed — and on average two papers per week continue to shutter across the country, according to Northwestern University’s Medill School. The decline of local news is deeply disturbing, but the prospects for emerging solutions are encouraging. Today, we’re publishing a series of essays from industry leaders that will serve as Signposts for the Future to help newsrooms answer the question, “What now?"

BY Aspen Digital & 1 more

Longform

08.22.2022
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The Changing Nature of Cartoons in America

The New Yorker Cartoon Editor Emma Allen in conversation with Artnet News National Art Critic Ben Davis.

BY Aspen Community Programs

Video

07.14.2022
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Local News as Infrastructure

Local media and civic institutions must support one another’s mission if they are to serve the community and its informational, multilingual, and multicultural needs.

BY Aspen Digital & 1 more

Blog Post

07.06.2022
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Journalism's norms are changing. Here's why you should care.

Norms in newsrooms across the United States are being upended thanks to deep polarization, a racial reckoning, and the pandemic. Hallmark journalistic traits like neutrality and objectivity are being redefined.

BY Aspen Ideas to Go

Podcast

10.27.2021
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How to Cover Vaccine Hesitancy

With vaccine supply increasing, American newsrooms will be tested as the narrative moves from who can’t get the shot to who won’t get the shot. Ordinary journalistic practices can unintentionally exacerbate the public health crisis by amplifying the very mis- and disinformation it seeks to counter. Drawing on input from experts and journalists, Vivian Schiller of Aspen Digital extracted lessons whose seeming simplicity gives way to massive complications.

BY Vivian Schiller

Blog Post

03.05.2021
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