Journalists, business leaders consider roles in creating a more equitable, resilient local economy

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As part of an effort to  help newsrooms build deep, reciprocal relationships that generate community-led solutions, revenue streams and business models to ensure their survival, the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute and Local Voices Network yesterday held the first of what will be several online convenings between residents, business owners and local media.

The first of those experiments took place in Madison, Wisconsin, home of the University of Wisconsin and birthplace of Cortico’s Local Voices Network.

Conversations in Madison centered around reimagining the community amid a public health pandemic, calls to address systemic racism, and a news ecosystem buckling under pressures from both.

The goal is to create space for conversations aimed at making local economies and local media more equitable, resilient and community-centered, and to produce a toolkit for hosting similar discussions in other communities.

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