I spent the better part of a Saturday morning at a coffee shop in Cedar Rapids and found an inspirational and motivating article by Malcom Gladwell called How David Beats Goliath.
The basic wisdom behind the piece in the New Yorker is that when underdogs break away from conventional wisdom, they win.
Gladwell uses a true story [...]
About halfway through my freshman year of high school, I was approached by my English teach Mrs. Griffiths and asked if I’d be interested in joining the school newspaper. She saw something in my writing, but more intriguing to her – she would later reveal – was the way I asked questions.
Since that day in [...]
Many people in the industry say local news and information is the last great frontier for media organizations. Some cover a Little League team like they’re the New York Yankees. Others offer a database of information of crime, real-estate and school information for a specific region.
Whatever your philosophy on local news, my view is [...]
There has been some pub recently about an experiment by Howard Owens and Ryan Sholin working with Gatehouse Media to launch a website in a place, Batavia, NY, where Gatehouse doesn’t publish a newspaper. You can read more about it here, here and here.
Here are the basics:
Set up an office on Main Street
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