| LION members will have access to legal advice hotline
'Journalism as an act of citizenship:' Lessons from City Bureau
 "The new contract between journalists and the public will frame journalism as an act of citizenship ..." It’ll share the role of "watchdog," engaging people in the production of news and information.
And Andrea Faye Hart, City Bureau's co-founder, writes about how City Bureau opened and invited the public into its news meetings, and how others can do the same.
Facebook reverses itself after local publisher is harassed, banned
Johnson, publisher of Flint Beat in Michigan, exposed a racist attack against her father last week in a public Facebook post, only to be inundated by white supremacist trolls. Then she was banned from posting for 24 hours, instead of the people who were attacking her with racist insults.
Tips for building a subscriber base and a membership program
 LION member, Whereby.Us co-founder and Reynolds Journalism Institute fellow Rebekah Monson is working on tools that will make it easier for small publishers to grow a base of email newsletter subscribers. RJI has detailed some early lessons.
Those email subscriptions are crucial for publishers who hope to launch a serious, sustainable membership program to support local journalism.
“The best predictor of membership loyalty is whether an organization has been talking to their audiences already about their need to raise money."
News About Local Independent Online News Sites
Tools and Tips: Advertising and Revenue
Tools and Tips: Journalism and Technology
ASNE: The logic for two separate newspaper organizations evaporates — and so they merge.
INN will host a webinar on June 18 on Nonprofit Board Governance. Nonprofit news leaders won't want to miss this special executive virtual training around board roles and responsibilities, how they shift over a nonprofit’s life cycle and strategies to keep the board composition in alignment with the organization’s needs and much more.
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