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Full Title: Reviving News Deserts: Three examples of how to use public money to promote structural change in local/regional journalism
Moderation: Christina Sartori

The crisis in the journalistic business model is hitting local and regional media particularly hard. In the United States, the issue is discussed under the heading of “news deserts”, i.e., the increasing number of regions in which there is no longer any independent local journalism. In the third SciCon 2.0 session, we look at projects that have developed creative ideas to try and combat this problematic development. Sarah Stonbely (Tow Center for Digital Journalism) will present the Civic Information Consortium; Steve Waldman the Rebuild Local News Coalition – two initiatives that aim to promote a new information biotope for regional communities. The current head of the BBC’s Local News Partnerships, Jason Gibbins, will talk about this project which uses public service broadcasting fees to enable journalistic research with a regional focus. Can these examples also be used to facilitate regional science journalism?

Sarah Stonbely is the research director at the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University. She received her doctorate in political communication, media sociology, and journalism studies from NYU and was a postdoc in the School of Media + Public Affairs at Georg Washington University. Sarah’s expertise is in media sociology, local news ecosystems, and research methodology.

Steve Waldman is the founder and president of Rebuild Local News. He is also the co-founder and former president of Report for America, a national service programme that places journalists in newsrooms across America. Before becoming an advocate for local journalism, Waldman was a journalist covering national politics for Newsweek, U.S. News and World Reports and Washington Monthly. Later, he wrote a report for the Federal Communications Commission, outlining the information needs of communities.

Jason Gibbins is a multi-media editor and journalist who was appointed Assistant Editor for the BBC Local News Partnerships in 2017. Prior to joining BBC News Online, he was an editor responsible for all print, online and social media output for a range of local newspapers and websites. He has also worked for titles including the Northampton Chronicle & Echo, Coventry Telegraph and, on a freelance basis, the Mail on Sunday and Sunday Express.

Links:

https://towcenter.columbia.edu/conten...
https://www.rebuildlocalnews.org/team...
https://www.bbc.com/lnp/about-us/jaso...
New Jersey Civic Information Consortium https://njcivicinfo.org/
Rebuild Local News https://www.rebuildlocalnews.org/
Local News Partnerships https://www.bbc.com/lnp/
Twitter: @SarahStonbely / @ stevenwaldman / @Jgibbins