PLEASE JOIN OUR PUBLIC CONVERSATION WITH

STEVE WALDMAN

TO DISCUSS NEW METHODS FOR SAVING LOCAL JOURNALISM FROM HEDGE FUND SQUEEZING

TOMORROW at 3:30 P.M. ET

The Center for Journalism & Liberty and the Open Markets Institute invite you to join a webinar featuring Steve Waldman in conversation with advocates about his new paper and proposals. His outline will be contrasted with a similar idea, coming out of the Shorenstein Center, called the National Trust for Local News, that would assemble capital to finance the transition of locally-owned newspapers to more sustainable forms.

Waldman's plan could transform some of the 6,700 privately owned newspapers into community-grounded institutions. Read more here: 

Participants include:

• Steve Waldman, CEO and cofounder, Report for America, and author of landmark 2011 FCC report on the future of local media
• Jody Brannon, director of the Center for Journalism & Liberty
• Fraser Nelson, vice president, business innovation, Salt Lake Tribune
• Denise Rolark Barnes, publisher of the Washington Informer and chair of the National Newspaper Publishers Association
• Elizabeth Hansen, Ph.D., lead researcher of the News Sustainability and Business Models project at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School
• Marc Hand, CEO of Public Media Venture Group