Ken Doctor

About Ken Doctor

Ken Doctor

Ken Doctor currently serves as a national business of news analyst and CEO/founder of Lookout Local/Lookout Santa Cruz. His 48-year-career in journalism encompasses alternative weeklies, monthly magazines, newsroom and newspaper management and digital innovation, including 21 years with Knight Ridder Newspapers in both digital and print executive capacities.

9 Hard Truths About Reviving Local News

By Opinion September 14, 2023

Press Forward launch. Alden still buying. Texas Tribune’s reckoning. Invasions of Kansas newsrooms. Beyond news fatigue, active news avoidance. “Prompt engineers,” perhaps replacing journalists. With just a few months to go until 2024, we enter a potentially perilous presidential … Read more