Anika Anand suggests a critical need for improved coordination among journalism support organizations to better serve local newsrooms. She emphasizes that disorganization detracts from the potential benefits of existing resources in the journalism ecosystem. Following her predictions, Anand and Darryl Holliday founded Commoner Company to explore more effective support strategies for local news. Their recent report highlights over 100 organizations in the U.S. that evolved post-2009 to address the changing landscape of local journalism, but points to significant challenges that remain unaddressed in resource coordination.
The lack of coordination across funders, associations, academic institutions, consulting firms, technology platforms, and other organizations... undermines the ecosystems we're trying to strengthen.
There's no vision or infrastructure to help us better leverage what we're all working on to more effectively serve news businesses.
They identify more than 100 such organizations operating in the U.S. today, tracing their proliferation back to a decade-long shift between 2009 and 2017.
With our new civic media lab for hire, we can facilitate the development and strategic coordination necessary for these organizations.
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