Mark Glaser

Announcing the L.A. TACO Media Lab: For the Future of Local Journalism In Los Angeles ~ L.A. TACO To start, we’re teaming up with the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism to help provide education and training expertise to a new generation of journalists. The school has developed ...

More on the Media Lab and its plan to pair social media creators and journalists in L.A.:

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Local News Leader Spotlight: Alex Bloomingdale & Javier Cabral, L.A. TACO | Press Forward With the help of Press Forward funding, the outlet recently launched the L.A. TACO Media Lab, which brings together social media creators and student journalists to learn from one another and collabor...

🌮 It's a great day to celebrate the success of
L.A. Taco with their Taco Madness fest this weekend! I profiled their work as a street-level local news outlet for #PressForward. PF funding helped them launch the L.A. TACO Media Lab with @annenberg.usc.edu.

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How James B. McClatchy Foundation is turning its sunset into a sunrise for local news | Press Forward Even as the foundation spends down, it leads the way with a local Press Forward chapter By Mark Glaser Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn.  ―Ralph Waldo Emerson There’s an idea that every e...

I wrote a profile on the James B. McClatchy Foundation for #PressForward to highlight the great work they are doing supporting journalism in the Central Valley of Calif. even as they plan to sunset the foundation.

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And we also give shout-outs to Black by God | The West Virginian, Harvey World Herald, Project Optimist, Eden Prairie Local News and Four Points Press for receiving grants for their important work.

That includes communities based in language, faith traditions, professional backgrounds, racial and ethnic identities, shared interests, diasporas, etc.

🚀 The Big Blast from Tiny News, January 2025 Why we should expand our definition of 'community' beyond geography

📣 The January edition of 🚀 The Big Blast from Tiny News Collective just came out, and Amy L. Kovac-Ashley writes about how the news industry should expand the definition of "community" beyond geography.

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News @ Knight | Knight Foundation | Substack The future of news, now. Click to read News @ Knight, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

Have a wonderful, restful holiday season and be sure to follow all the news about local news in News @ Knight in the new year! /5

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The Knight Growth Challenge Fund Designed to support selected news outlets that have proven journalistic and business prowess and a solid business plan for sustainability

Also, many large nonprofit newsrooms merged, and others had expansions to cover news deserts, with funding from AJP. Plus, @knightfdn.bsky.social launched a new Growth Challenge Fund to support expansion of for-profit and nonprofit newsrooms. /4

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New York legislature passes historic journalism jobs tax credit | The NewsGuild - TNG-CWA

Public policy supporting local news also hit an all-time high, with NY state passing a tax credit bill for $90M over 3 years, Illinois passing a bill for $25M over 5 years, with California making a deal with Google to spend $250M over five years. /3

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Press Forward Awards $20 Million To 205 Local News Outlets Two hundred and five small local news outlets - including one in every U.S. state - will receive a share of $20 million to close persistent coverage gaps in their communities, thanks to funding from P...

An incredible higlight of the year was #PressForward announcing $100K grants to 205 smallish newsrooms including at least one in every state. With aligned funding, Press Forward has disbursed more than $170M this year! /2

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Press Forward grants, big policy wins highlight 2024 trends Hopeful directions include newsroom expansions to news deserts, large gifts to J-schools

The last News @ Knight newsletter is out from
@knightfdn.bsky.social, with a look back at 2024, the Year of Plenty for local news. Highlights include a lot of philanthropy $ invested, massive state policy wins, and big gifts to J-schools. /1

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Looking for a social media platform that won't make me crazy. Hmmmm.