article about cheap and effective local news organization?

December 10, 2022 9:00 AM

I read an article within the last three or so years wherein the author describes creating a new journalism organization that focused on local news in daily digest format; the model was (at the time of the article) successful and relatively inexpensive, and I'd like to read the article again, but I am having no luck finding it.

I want to say that the company was based in and focused on Seattle, and that the overall cost was somewhere around $500,000. There was something of a call to action at the end of the article suggesting that this could be an effective model for journalism and that more folks who could afford it should see about making it happen.

Terribly vague, I know, but I am full of optimism as well as a desire to reread.

posted by VeritableSaintOfBrevity to Writing & Language (4 answers total)

Was it Patch?
posted by mekily at 1:26 PM on December 10, 2022

Look through what the Lenfest Institute puts out. They're supremely interested in what local journalism looks like these days and may be what you're looking for.
posted by knile at 1:11 PM on December 11, 2022

Was it Sahan Journal in Minneapolis?
posted by dusty potato at 7:27 PM on December 11, 2022

Response by poster: I don't think it's any of these, though they're all super interesting
posted by VeritableSaintOfBrevity at 8:43 AM on December 12, 2022