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Local News Matters

Highlighting the innovative work of local newsrooms and the crucial questions they face.

Innovation. Business models. Community listening. Authenticity. Diversity and inclusion. Digital evolution. Tech stacks. Ad products. Audience growth. Healthy newsroom cultures. Journalism with impact.

Listen to leading doers and thinkers in local news—from small rural and ethnic publications to large ecosystem builders and funders—address these topics and more on the Local News Matters podcast.

Hosted by Tim Regan-Porter, CEO of the Colorado Press Association, Local News Matters features extended conversations covering a wide range of topics. Tim talks to reporters, editors, publishers, startup founders, sales leaders, philanthropists and more – anyone doing new or exemplary work or proffering thought-provoking insights is fair game.

Whether you’re a newsroom leader, a sales executive or just a citizen who cares deeply about informed communities, you’ll find something here worth your time.

If you know of local newsrooms are doing innovative work or  interesting thinkers & doers in local news, please let us know via the feedback link in the menu.

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Past episodes

LNM 3 Jennifer Brandel
Shut up and listen: Jennifer Brandel of Hearken on innovation via empathy & inclusiveness: LNM Episode 3

Shut up and listen: Jennifer Brandel of Hearken on innovation via empathy & inclusiveness: LNM Episode 3

Jennifer Brandel, co-founder of Hearken, Zebras Unite, Civic Exchange Chicago, Election SOS, Democracy SOS and WBEZ’s Curious City, shares lessons on designing experiments for sustainability, equity and impact. Episode chapters: (2:40) - Jennifer’s path to public...

LNM 2 - Trends in local news
Trends in local news with Corey Hutchins + takeaways and fact check for Sopris Sun episode: LNM Episode 2

Trends in local news with Corey Hutchins + takeaways and fact check for Sopris Sun episode: LNM Episode 2

Corey Hutchins looks back at local news trends in 2022 with Bay Edwards and host Tim Regan-Porter. They discuss the growing role of nonprofit newsrooms, collaborative efforts across the country, government support of local news and public notices. Next, Bay and...