We’re proud to share inspiring stories of news media organizations that have benefited from our programs
Dear friends and colleagues in the local media industry,
So much accomplished, so much more to do! That sentiment applies to all of us working to sustain and grow local journalism, whether we’re practitioners within media companies or support organizations such as LMA/LMF.
In this year’s report, we want to highlight how our programs benefited those on the front lines of local news transformation.
The Family and Independent Media Sustainability Lab, for example, conducted a training and development sprint in 2024 for new account executives, led by consultant Peter Lamb. He tells us that participants such as Ian Riley of Rust Communications; April Glidden of the Maine Trust for Local News; and Holly Thompson of The Gazette in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, exhibited real star power in that sprint.
In the Knight x LMA BloomLab, which completed its third year in 2024, people such as Ra-jah Kelly at The Washington Informer, Josiah Scott at The Seattle Medium, and David Bonifay at The Atlanta Voice excelled at adopting the technology implementations and upgrades made possible by the lab.
We can’t forget the 16 journalism fellows working in Word In Black and News is Out newsrooms as part of The Digital Equity Voices Lab. Countless others in local news apply what they learn in LMA/LMF programs to their everyday work. These programs exist thanks to the generous support of funders such as Knight Foundation, Google News Initiative, Comcast NBCUniversal and many others. We are humbled by and grateful for this support.
We could tell so many more inspiring stories of 2024 successes besides these and others you’ll read in this report. It all adds up to major progress on the path to long-term sustainability. But it’s a long road, and the path ahead will be bumpy. LMA and LMF stand ready to help along the way. We invite you to engage with us as we devote our energies to the future of local media and journalism.
Respectfully,
Nancy Lane and Jay Small
Co-CEOs, LMA and LMF
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