Industry collaboration is one of our four strategic pillars.
Here are recent articles about our collaboratives and work in the industry to support news media collaboration.
New style guide helps avoid language that reflects negatively on aging
It happens all the time to people of a certain age. Someone well-meaning says, “Let me help you with that, sweetie.” Another person presumes that an older person has difficulty hearing, seeing, remembering, or understanding, or needs help with technology. This phenomenon is called “everyday ageism.” In a 2019 poll by the University of Michigan, […]
LMA + LMF 2022 Impact Report
At an industry gathering last year, Larry Lee, publisher of The Sacramento Observer (a Black newspaper founded 60 years ago by his father), shared that his organization went from fewer than four full-time employees to 14 in just 16 months. The gathering, hosted by the Knight Foundation, was focused on sustainability. Attendees stood and clapped. […]
3 reasons the local Black press has a strong future
Although we mostly concentrate on prominent people, businesses, and events from the past during Black History Month, it is imperative that we also focus on the future of the Black press.
Oklahoma collaborators cover underreported communities, amplify audience engagement
A record number of news organizations in Oklahoma partnered with each other this summer on projects reporting on underserved communities. Oklahoma Media Center funded the collaborations. OMC, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, supports and strengthens Oklahoma’s local journalism ecosystem and spurs innovation through statewide collaboration that benefits diverse audiences. Since Inasmuch Foundation and Local Media Association […]
How what the New York & Michigan Solutions Journalism Collaborative learned about caregivers led us to create a Resource Guide for them
As former first lady Rosalynn Carter once put it, “There are only four kinds of people in the world: those who have been caregivers, those who are currently caregivers, those who will be caregivers, and those who will need caregivers.” With an aging population, all of those categories are growing. According to a 2020 report […]
A new solution to add trusted climate reporting to your website
Local Media Association is proud to announce a free and easy solution for newsrooms to add trusted climate reporting to their websites, and tell the local story of this global issue.
Let’s stop trashing ‘legacy’ media
“Legacy” media. We use the phrase as shorthand for “media that have failed to change with the times.” I get that. Lost, though, is another aspect of the meaning of “legacy”: what you are known for — your reputation earned over time for your work. A news organization’s legacy matters in three important ways, and […]
Oklahoma collaborators focus on sharing resources to publish best possible investigation
The investigation was stalled. Jennifer Palmer, a reporter for the nonprofit investigative reporting team Oklahoma Watch, started looking into COVID-19 relief programs for education in 2020. Then Palmer began digging into Governor’s Emergency Education Relief funds in Fall 2021. “And I had kind of gotten stuck,” Palmer said. “I had a source who was pretty […]
New LMA report: What we’ve learned from running 9 industry collaboratives
Local Media Association and Local Media Foundation have released a new report detailing lessons we learned from our work with industry collaboratives. We launched our first collaboration in March 2020, and to date, have launched or managed nine collaborations including geography-based and topic-based formats. Why do we believe in collaboration? Because the industry gets stronger […]
A new way to automate story-sharing in news collaboratives
Collaboration comes with numerous potential benefits for local news organizations — including shared resources, more reach, and greater depth of reporting. But workflow and logistics can reduce the scale of those wins. For shared content, web editors might find themselves in the labor-intensive processes of copying and pasting stories, chasing down image rights clearances, or […]
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