Analysis
The local expert is Dan Kennedy, Professor of Journalism at Northeastern University:
- Media Nation (blog)
- WhatWorks.news (Northeastern University School of Journalism project and What Works in Community News: Media Startups, News Deserts, and the Future of the Fourth Estate by Kennedy and Ellen Clegg)
- What Works: The Future of Local News (podcast)
- Among the MetroWest folks he has interviewed are Nicci Kadilak, editor of the Burlington Buzz, on Aug. 10, 2023.
News coverage
- News we’ve all been waiting for (Charles River Regional Chamber, June 9, 2023)
- In Cambridge, a bid to keep local news alive (Boston Globe, April 21, 2023)
- Corporate ownership left gaps in community journalism. Meet the people working to fill it. (WGBH radio, March 13, 2023)
- Rebuild Local News launches ambitious new drive for public policies to help save local news (Rebuildlocalnews.org, Jan. 24, 2023)
- ‘It’s devastating.’ As Boston-area weeklies close, towns ponder civic life without local news (Boston Globe, April 8, 2022)
- ‘Wicked Local’ Massachusetts Newspapers Cease Printing (Media News Journal, March 21, 2022)
- ‘Looks like the apocalypse’: Gannett weekly papers across the state announce the end of print publication (Boston.com, March 17, 2022)
Organizations and Contacts
- Independent local media in Mass. — list compiled by Dan Kennedy
- Rebuild Local News
- LION Publishers (Local Independent Online News)
- Institute for Nonprofit News
- Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism (BINJ)
- Director Jason Primas also maintains the Massachusetts Independent News Outlet email discussion list
- BroadstreetAds.com
See additional resources on the home page of WhatWorks.news.