About: Zachary Metzger

[caption id="attachment_5765" align="alignright" width="250"] Anne Nelson, research fellow at the Saltzmann Institute at the Columbia School of International and Public Affairs[/caption] Media in the United States are not alone in struggling to find a new model for sustainability and profitability. Anne Nelson, author, lecturer and a research fellow at the Saltzmann Institute at the Columbia…

[caption id="attachment_5743" align="alignright" width="234"] Robert Picard, senior research fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at University of Oxford[/caption] As newspapers and digital sites struggle for financial stability, industry executives and policymakers have been exploring and proposing new business models, including laws and regulations that encourage nonprofit support from charitable organizations and…

[caption id="attachment_5747" align="alignright" width="300"] Victor Pickard, professor of media policy and political economy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication[/caption] The collapse of the business model supporting both local newspapers and digital start-up endeavors has left many U.S. communities with a dearth of critically important news and information. Because an informed citizenry is…

[caption id="attachment_5868" align="alignright" width="254"] Danilo Yanich, professor of urban affairs and public policy at the Biden School of Public Policy and Administration at the University of Delaware[/caption]  As hometown newspapers disappear, residents often turn to local television stations for their news and information, especially about state and local political candidates and issues. Political ads on…

[caption id="attachment_5858" align="alignright" width="300"] Magda Koniecza, assistant professor of journalism at Temple University[/caption] Journalists and others have begun looking more closely at a nonprofit model for news publications as the business model dependent on advertising revenue has dwindled drastically. Since 2008, nonprofit newsrooms in the United States have opened at an average rate of about…

[caption id="attachment_5771" align="alignright" width="300"] Nick Mathews, PhD student in Media Studies at the Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Minnesota.[/caption] The number of failed newspapers and the rise of news deserts in the United States is the wide-angle story. But if you zoom in, you discover how the people who…

[caption id="attachment_5716" align="alignright" width="257"] Director of technology and media specialization, Columbia University[/caption] Accusations of fake news undermine people’s faith in credible reporting. Whom or what organization do you trust these days? Facebook, the local newspaper, cable news, Twitter? In “Bridging the Gap: Rebuilding Citizen Trust in the Media,” Anya Schiffrin, along with colleagues at Columbia…

[caption id="attachment_5838" align="alignright" width="200"] Piet Bakker[/caption] Making enough money to stay in business and pay staff is a continuing problem for many intensely local news entities the world over. Piet Bakker, along with colleagues Clare Cook and Kathryn Geels, examined the operations of 35 hyperlocal publishers in their report Hyperlocal Revenues in the UK and…

[caption id="attachment_5871" align="alignright" width="192"] Sarah Stonbely, research director at the Center for Cooperative Media[/caption] Why do some communities have an abundance of local news coverage, and others don’t? In a forthcoming paper, What Makes for Robust Local News Provision?, Sarah Stonbely, research director at the Center for Cooperative Media in Montclair, N.J., identifies community characteristics…