by Damon Kiesow | Nov 8, 2025 | LNIC News & Events
On Friday, November 7, LNIC Research Director Ben Toff of the University of Minnesota was joined by Regina Lawrence, Research Director of the Agora Journalism Center at the University of Oregon School of Journalism. Lawrence summarized and discussed the new report she...
by Damon Kiesow | Nov 6, 2025 | LNIC News & Events
The report is available now on the LNIC Website and as a downloadable PDF. (Nov 6, 20205) — Today, the Local News Information Consortium released its first toolkit report: The Newsroom Census/Ecosystem Mapping Toolkit. Developed by Regina Lawrence, Research Director...
by LNIC | Sep 10, 2025 | LNIC News & Events
Regina Lawrence This post is part of a series of discussions with LNIC researchers. The interview with Regina Lawrence (right), Interim Dean of SOJC Portland at the University of Oregon and a member of the LNIC steering committee, was conducted by Afrooz Mosallaei, a...
by Benjamin Toff | Sep 1, 2025 | LNIC News & Events
The Local News Impact Consortium (LNIC) is a journalism support organization that seeks to bolster the growing research community dedicated to studying the health of local information ecosystems. This research community is vast but often siloed in newsrooms, across...
by Damon Kiesow | Jan 17, 2025 | LNIC News & Events
Across the country, academics, journalists and researchers are mapping their state’s news and information ecosystems. Their methodologies differ, but such initiatives seek to make sense of the splintered reality of where people are getting their local news and...
by Benjamin Toff | Jan 10, 2025 | LNIC News & Events
Philanthropic organizations trying to meaningfully fund local news are running up against challenges that another group — local news researchers — have been grappling with for some time. As currently structured, research into the state of local news in the United...
