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Ken Doctor

@kdoctor

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

$500 million in philanthropic funding is a start, but let’s make sure we’re focusing on the right things

September 14, 2023

Dear Sunnylands: Let’s Widen the Roadmap — and Mark an Achievable Destination for Local News

To thrive and grow, local emerging organizations need a new alignment between philanthropy and market-driven business building. We already see the fledgling success of that model

February 20, 2023

A Message for Journalists: It’s Time to Flex Old Muscles in New Ways

‘We’ll learn by trying new ways of doing what we’ve done with news, by putting ourselves visibly in the social media mix, and by using the emerging tools of daily…

June 14, 2010