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From news deserts to thriving local news outlets, The State of Local News podcast takes you inside America’s journalism landscape. Host Tim Franklin, Medill Professor and John M.
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How Daily Memphian CEO Eric Barnes Grew a Robust Nonprofit News Outlet with a Paywall and a Base of Loyal Subscribers (opens the original)
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In the eighth episode of the State of Local News Podcast, host Tim Franklin—Professor, John M. Mutz Chair in Local News, and founding director of the Medill Local News Initiative—speaks with Eric Barnes, CEO of The Daily Memphian. Barnes joins Tim Franklin to discuss how The Daily Memphian has become one of the country's most successful local digital news organizations. He explains how the nonprofit has built a diverse revenue model centered on subscriptions, advertising, events and philanthropy
Charleston CEO P.J. Browning is Investing and Growing the Post & Courier While Many Other Local News Outlets Retrench (opens the original)
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In the seventh episode of the State of Local News Podcast, host Tim Franklin—Professor, John M. Mutz Chair in Local News, and founding director of the Medill Local News Initiative—speaks with P.J. Browning, CEO of Evening Post Publishing and president and publisher of The Post and Courier. Browning joins Tim Franklin to discuss how The Post and Courier has become one of the country’s most innovative local news organizations by expanding to nine newsrooms across South Carolina while many news com
Lenfest Institute CEO Jim Friedlich on What’s Working in Local News: Beneficial Ownership Combined with Strong User Revenues (opens the original)
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Friedlich joins Tim Franklin on the State of Local News Podcast to reflect on the Lenfest Institute's decade-long journey to becoming one of the most influential journalism organizations in the country: investing more than $117 million in more than 600 news organizations and initiatives to support local news innovation, business sustainability and newsroom transformation. He also discusses The Philadelphia Inquirer's digital transformation, the growing role of nonprofit ownership in local news,
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