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Commissioning a Local News Ecosystem Assessment: An Operational Toolkit
Local ecosystem assessments are an essential tool for funders, civic leaders, and newsroom leaders to reveal who is informing communities, where gaps persist, and how resources can be deployed more strategically. But many local funders and founders embarking on...
Don’t reinvent the wheel: An LNIC database of local news audience research studies and methods
By Jesse Holcomb and Jorie Cho Any news organization hoping to better understand their community’s information needs will face the question of how to go about measuring that information. Some may commission a survey or focus group, others may pursue direct interviews....
New toolkit: How to commission local news ecosystem research
The Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI) and the Local News Impact Consortium (LNIC) this week launched Commissioning a Local News Ecosystem Assessment: An Operational Toolkit, a resource for streamlining research into the audiences, news organizations and industry forces that shape local news.
Inside the LNIC: Understanding the economic value of local news
This interview with Harsh Taneja associate professor of new and emerging media at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, is part of a series of discussions with LNIC researchers conducted by Afrooz Mosallaei, a doctoral student in the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University.
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