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It takes skilled journalists, & business-side people -- & enough of them -- to give communities what they need in times of crisis. Here's the Lookout Santa Cruz team -- big enough to make difference - that is doing that in our storm coverage. lookout.co/santacruz/

Lookout into 2023. Talking with Mike Blinder via Editor & Publisher (E&P) Magazine on Lookout's model & 2-yr progress, the news industry, advertising success, in-office work, SHOWING UP in the community+, along with Lookout's Ashley Harmon. editorandpublisher.com/stories/ken-do…

"Dear Sunnylands: Widen the road to local news revival." As civic-minded funders meet this week in Miami, let's make the case for sustainable, replacement primary news models for our communities. niemanreports.org/articles/sunny…

1/2 As we debate how we're going to replace the fast-flagging chain dailies, I offer a few equations: Civic information ≠ local news Print local news ≠ hedge-fund-gutted dailies Digital news start-ups ≠ nonprofits, only niemanreports.org/articles/sunny…

2/2 As we debate how we're going to replace the fast-flagging chain dailies: Successful, mission-driven news organizations ≠ mandated, free-for-all, no access restrictions operations Digital news start-ups ≠ philanthropically dependent organizations niemanreports.org/articles/sunny…

Hollywood Squares for news startups. We enjoyed mixing it up and spreading the ASLN word -- we are succeeding with local news rebuilding from Baltimore, Chicago & Memphis to Denver, Long Beach & Santa Cruz. We share our stories.

Now, with Press Forward "filling the big tent with big money," Jim Friedlich lays out well the background of its development and its parts. A great primer for what comes next. niemanreports.org/articles/press…

A commitment of a half billion dollars has the potential to help generate billions more in new support for local news niemanreports.org/articles/press…

Yes, Alden is still buying. Why? Still, as it has been for a decade: $$$$. How? Call it the Bamboozle the Boomer gambit. See, below, the bill of one long-time subscriber to the Denver Post. He recently got this simple renewal note, below. niemanreports.org/articles/9-har…

With Press Forward $500M funding for local news, moving forward, where do we stand approaching an anxious 2024 for all of us in the revival movement? Via Nieman Reports, my take on 9 Hard Truths About Reviving Local News. niemanreports.org/articles/9-har…

Dig and write, write and dig. Lookout Santa Cruz is hiring an investigative correspondent, heavy on criminal justice. Driven, experienced reporters only, pls apply. We'll be 3 years old soon, and hitting all our marks. lookout.co/santacruz/job-…

Let's go bravely into the Local News 2024. Thanks to Mark Caro & Medill Local News Initiative for time 4 wide-ranging Q&A, on Press Forward $ impact, recruiting challenges & the rigors of "execution". localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2023/10/…

News out of Canada -- a new $100M deal with Google -- could and should influence what the CA legislature does, and doesn't do, in 2024. Foremost : Focus on one key metric, actually increasing the number of LOCAL journalists originating LOCAL news. niemanlab.org/2023/11/newson…

What would Christmas be without the Alden grinch. Unsatisfied w devouring newspapers and mobile home parks, it now eats Greyhound stations. The joyfully rapacious co: cnn.com/2023/12/17/bus…

Is a slice of new funding now better than a whole pie-in-the-sky perhaps later? Lots of gnarly details and vituperative debate in the CA Legislature/Google local news funding settlement. Why I think it is a win overall. niemanlab.org/2024/08/newson…

(1 of 4) Lookout Local is hiring newsroom leaders ready to build the future of local news. We'll launch Lookout Eugene-Springfield early next year, and Lookouts 3-5 will follow soon after. (Expansion coverage: lookout.co/media-coverage…

(2 of 4) Lookout is building local teams & we're looking for the next generation of newsroom leadership to do that. Building on our Lookout Santa Cruz Pulitzer for Breaking News, our editorial leadership drives distinctiveness on all the bedrock standards that we maintain.

(3 of 4) Lookout has built a community betterment platform, publishing a wide range of news that speaks to all that modern readers expect in an (all-digital) community newspaper in the 2020s. We prize impact, creativity & collegiality in all our work. lookout.co

(4 of 4) Lookout seeks highly experienced, ambitious, future-grabbing editors -- for exec editor, managing editor and news editor positions. Lookout Eugene-Springfield executive editor job here: lookouteugene-springfield.com/welcome/#Execu…

Lookout Expanding: Build a local news future with us. Experienced newsroom leaders: send us a cover letter and resume to [email protected]