Jay Small

Jan 6, 2025 | localmedia.org | Jay Small

January 2, 2025 means more to me than just the second day of a new year. The date marks 40 years since my first day in my first “professional” journalism job* — as a copy editor and page designer at The Sun/The Daily Herald (now just The Sun Herald) in Biloxi-Gulfport, Mississippi. In 1985, the tools of that job included primitive, unreliable video display terminals, paper dummy sheets, pica poles and proportion wheels.

Jul 22, 2024 | localmedia.org | Jay Small

Nieman Reports published an article by Hanaa’ Tameez in early July that described the unconventional, “no-platforms” approach of Gazetteer SF, a four-month-old subscription news site in San Francisco. Among other things, this site:Does not track its traffic via common web analytics suites. Does not have official social media accounts. Minimizes its presence in search engines. Uses minimalist software-as-a-service for its content management, email newsletters and SMS alerts.

Apr 16, 2024 | localmedia.org | Jay Small

Disaster planners in any organization must think and work in worst-case scenarios. They typically devise plans based on asking questions that start with “what would we do if …” and however they finish the question, the answer will be bad news. Here are some examples appropriate to the local media industry:What would we do if digital programmatic advertising disappeared? What would we do if retransmission consent revenues for local TV broadcasters disappeared?

Jun 27, 2023 | localmedia.org | Jay Small

Skip to content Home » Revenue growth, technology upgrades: A year in Knight x LMA BloomLab In the year-plus since the Knight x LMA BloomLab launched, 18 Black-owned media organizations participating in the lab (10 in Cohort 1, eight in the more recent Cohort 2) benefited from substantial progress toward long-term sustainability.

May 25, 2023 | localmedia.org | Jay Small

(May 25, 2023) — Local Media Association has selected 12 local media companies to join the new Family and Independent Media Sustainability Lab — FIMS Lab for short — aimed at finding paths to sustainability for family-owned and independent local media organizations.