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May 5, 2017

LION member spotlight: Wausau Pilot & Review

A Q&A with Shereen Siewert, publisher of the Wausau Pilot & Review in WIsconsin.

May 5, 2017

Death by 1,000 paper cuts

Layoff season is year-round now at the country’s big corporate newspaper chains. Let’s supports journalists who are starting their own businesses to replace what’s been cut.

By LION Publishers

April 27, 2017

LION member spotlight: LkldNow.com

A Q&A with Barry Friedman, publisher of LkldNow.com in Lakeland, Florida.

By LION Publishers

April 25, 2017

LION webinar series tackles programmatic advertising, copyright, metrics and more

LION Publishers is offering a monthly webinar series that will tackle programmatic advertising for local independent online news sites, navigating legal issues surrounding copyright and fair use, managing website metrics, and localizing free content available from national news sites.

By LION Publishers

April 24, 2017

LION Webinar 13: Preserving Digital Archives

Are your story archives protected from a major server crash or other technology problem? And what happens to news archives crucial to the history of a community if a local online news site closes down?

By LION Publishers

April 20, 2017

LION welcomes new members from 18 states

LION Publishers is pleased to have welcomed more than two dozen new members running local independent online news sites from 18 different states over the past year, plus other new members who are preparing to launch sites.

By LION Publishers

April 19, 2017

In many communities, best local journalism is not coming from print

Margaret Sullivan is right to sound the alarm about what steep newspaper cuts are doing to local journalism across the country, but her April 16 column, “Great local reporting stands between you and wrongdoing. And it needs saving,” misses the story of what is replacing and can replace what’s being lost.

By LION Publishers

April 14, 2017

Local news site’s 36-hour livestream a fun take on annual fund drives

The Valley Independent Sentinel’s editor and reporter are on camera for 36 hours straight to make the case for supporting local journalism – and other nonprofits – in Connecticut’s blue collar Naugatuck Valley.

By LION Publishers

April 11, 2017

LION member spotlight: Grant County Beat

A Q&A with Mary Alice Murphy, publisher of the Grant County Beat in New Mexico.

By LION Publishers

April 7, 2017

Podcast: Jesus Sanchez of The Eastsider in Los Angeles

LION member Jesus Sanchez is the proprietor of The Eastsider LA in Los Angeles. We talked with Jesus about being a one man band, making ends meet when you’re covering communities in a big city (including communities that are gentrifying), and about the differences between LION sites in large metro areas and smaller towns.

By LION Publishers

April 7, 2017

Podcast: Matt DeRienzo of LION Publishers

LION members know Matt DeRienzo from his work as our executive director. But March 6 marks a milestone for Matt: his first day as LION’s *full time* ED. Thanks to a grant from the Knight Foundation, Matt is focused full time on serving members and growing LION as an organization. We talked with Matt about his work with LION, his print media background, the future of LION, and what LION members are doing to sustain and distinguish themselves and grow in an increasingly Facebook-and-Google dominated online advertising landscape.

By LION Publishers

April 7, 2017

Podcast: Joe Hyde of San Angelo Live!

LION member Joe Hyde, publisher of San Angelo LIVE! in Texas, talked with us about a variety of topics, from earning extra revenue from programmatic advertising to keeping your readers on your site longer. He also explained how he went from flying bombers for the Air Force to starting a small ISP to launching a LION site.

By LION Publishers

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