Local News

Creating Community-Centered, Not Candidate-Centered, Narratives

Creating Community-Centered, Not Candidate-Centered, Narratives

In covering the local election season in Dare County, North Carolina–best known as the home of the Outer Banks–journalists can’t be accused of paying too much attention to an unending…
November 18, 2016
Mark Jurkowitz
Rebuilding Local Journalism as an Essential Democratic Force

Rebuilding Local Journalism as an Essential Democratic Force

Many post-election observers have lambasted the national news media, the so-called coastal media elites, for missing the breadth of support for Donald Trump among white working- and lower middle-class voters…
November 15, 2016
Joyce Dehli
All Journalism is Local

All Journalism is Local

Being a political animal, one of my first thoughts the morning after the election was, “Who’s going to run for President now?”You can rest assured that there are a dozen or…
November 14, 2016
Nicco Mele
How Collaborative Media Partnerships Can Help Rebuild Local and Regional Journalism

How Collaborative Media Partnerships Can Help Rebuild Local and Regional Journalism

The chasm between the coastal media centers and the country’s heartland is laid bare. Deep discontent, long simmering in the manufacturing Midwest and Appalachian coal country, went largely unrecognized until…
November 10, 2016
Jeff Young

Reporting Pushes Past Language and Ethnic Divides

‘… Alhambra Source has revealed significant lessons about the power of journalism to build community in diverse and underserved areas.’
June 10, 2011
Daniela Gerson

Advertising as Storytelling—So News Stories Can Be Told

While much attention is focused on how to “fix” journalism, the bigger problem is fixing advertising to pay for the news. For me, Detroit143 is, in part, about reinventing what…
June 10, 2011
Kirk Cheyfitz

A Promising Collaboration of Place, Time and Niche

Community members come together to examine Detroit’s financial challenges. Photo by Ellen Jacob.RELATED ARTICLES“Focusing a New Kind of Journalism on a City’s Needs”– Bill Mitchell“A New Partnership to Build a…
June 10, 2011
Lynette Clemetson

A New Partnership to Build a Common Understanding

Detroit’s challenges hold the attention of those who reside in its 143 square miles. Photo by Ellen Jacob.RELATED ARTICLES“Focusing a New Kind of Journalism on a City’s Needs”– Bill Mitchell“A…
June 10, 2011
Shirley Stancato

Focusing a New Kind of Journalism on a City’s Needs

‘… residents need to have journalism delivered as they want to consume it and in ways that will encourage them to move beyond absorbing news to acting on it.’
June 10, 2011
Bill Mitchell

What We Learn Informs What We Do

A bilingual sign in a local farmers’ market. Photo by Daniela Gerson.RELATED ARTICLE“Reporting Pushes Past Language and Ethnic Divides”– Daniela GersonThe Alhambra Source was born out of…
June 9, 2011
Nancy Chen