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...

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...

We are focused on one piece of the broader effort to strengthen local news: conducting what we’re calling a Newsroom Census. The goal is to document the news and media outlets that exist in and serve specific geographic communities. Ultimately, we’re creating a toolkit that researchers, journalists, civic organizations, philanthropies, and others can use to better understand the local news ecosystem in their area.

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...