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For Local News, Serving Public Is Not Enough

Nieman Journalism Lab | by TVNewsCheck

Dan Kennedy, journalism professor at Northeastern University, on what his new book The Wired City taught him about local journalism: “We need a variety of experiments — for-profit, nonprofit, cooperative ownership and voluntary efforts. The challenge all of them face is that serving the public is no longer enough. Rather, the public they serve must first be assembled — and given a voice.”