Newsecology-breakout-franchise

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These are notes taken by Bill Densmore of discussion during a breakout session on March 2, 2009, at the Poynter Institute convening: "Journalism That Matters -- Adapting Journalism to the New News Ecology." This was one of multiple breakouts called by the 85 participants in the four-day event. The title for this session: "Democracy now: Envisioning a model for franchising news."

THE CHALLENGE: Consider new ownership ideas for local news outfits

Historically U.S. news organizations have been idependently owned by local owners, or have been aggregated into large groups, or "chains" with centralized handling of some administration and business functions, including financial reporting. Other forms of ownership -- such as a franchising or co-operatives -- are relatively rare in the U.S. news environment. This session examined these and ohter ideas.

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