Here’s another take on the “Can Local Scale?” question with a different stance from a recent post about that topic. A friend recently brought to my attention a website called TAPinto which bills itself as — you guessed it — “Your Neighborhood News Online.” …

Clarification: This post has been updated to remove passages implying a merger between Axios and 6AM City. The linked article (fourth paragraph) discusses their independent expansion plans, but does not say they are merging. This was an error and misread on my part. Regrets for the incorrect description, which has…

As I’ve mentioned in this spot before, one of my main connections to the emerging local news scene is the Webster on the Web blog maintained by my wife, Missy. She calls it a hobby, and pursues it as a creative outlet without trying to monetize it. Nevertheless, it’s become…

A recent article in Politico asked a number of prominent media observers to look ahead at what they thought the state of the media would be in 15 years. …

Disclosure: The subject of this post is a book written by three close friends; my work is quoted/cited in a few places and I provided a pre-publication review of it. Therefore, what follows is not an unbiased review but more of a precis or summary of key takeaways. …

A recent post on my Wordpress blog (neglected to cross-post here on Medium, unfortunately) focused on the common threads between a couple of ideas I’d come across that put community building at the center of journalism. Another event I was fortunate to attend on May 25 addressed the same idea. …

Time to plug a project I am part of, but really pleased to be able to do so because of how interesting and important it could be for evolving journalism. It’s a recently published book titled Reporting Beyond the Problem which explores some truly valuable innovative ideas for how journalism…

Some personal news: I am retiring, and today was my last day of teaching full-time at St John Fisher College. Finals week lies ahead, but today was my last day of going into the classroom, which seems an appropriate time to share this news. (Older newsies will recall that the…

I posed a series of questions to one of my classes this week that brought out an interesting pattern of results. I first asked them to report about their time spent on consumption of general news, instructing them to exclude time spent on things such as sports and entertainment news…