Ken Doctor
Journalist, CEO and Founder at Lookout Local
Contributor at Nieman Lab
Newsonomics -- how the emerging business of digital news shapes what we know and read -- is my work, my site and my book.
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2 months ago |
lookout.co | Ken Doctor |Lookout Santa Cruz
You might have to blink twice. We launched Lookout Eugene-Springfield at the end of last week. And it looks a lot like Lookout Santa Cruz, at first blush. There’s the familiar teal and tangerine and recognizable typefaces, but it’s – as it should be – wholly local. After two years of fundraising and community building, our new stellar crew of journalists and friends achieved launch altitude and to great reception.
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Mar 19, 2025 |
lookout.co | Ken Doctor |Lookout Santa Cruz |Tania Ortiz
Quick Take The Pulitzer Board has created a season of podcasts focusing on the winners of 2024 Pulitzers. The episode on Lookout reconnects our correspondents and editors with the people and the places that consumed our lives in Santa Cruz County in early 2023. It’s amazing that 10 months have passed already since Lookout Santa Cruz won our Breaking News Pulitzer Prize for our coverage of the epic January 2023 flooding that Santa Cruz County endured.
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Mar 7, 2025 |
lookouteugene-springfield.com | Ken Doctor
Mark the date. We’ll launch Lookout Eugene-Springfield on April 10. While we have assembled much of our growing team – news on that below – it is really so many of you who have launched Lane County’s new news and information organization. As of today, 190 individuals or families have generously offered their financial support to build this new robust, through-the-day news service for all the people of this region.
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Feb 20, 2025 |
lookout.co | Ken Doctor |Lookout Santa Cruz |Lily Belli
We’ve never seen a year start like this one, and we are so glad to be reporting for you. From Day 1 of the Trump administration, which witnessed the self-immolation in front of Santa Cruz City Hall to the ICE seizure of Adolfo Gonzalez off of Market Street in Santa Cruz, we’re deeply covering the news and issues of this moment. That included Monday’s well-attended protest in front of the county courthouse. What we are all relearning: big national stories also are profoundly local ones.
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Feb 13, 2025 |
lookout.co | Lookout Santa Cruz |Hillary Ojeda |Ken Doctor |Max Chun
Quick Take What better time than stormy February to celebrate the richness of Santa Cruz’s literary community? What better time to read poetry than a stormy day amid political upheaval? Here, Lookout launches an experiment in poetry – and asks for your input on creating a regular poetry feature. Have something to say? Lookout welcomes letters to the editor, within our policies, from readers. Guidelines here. Welcome to a Community Voices experiment.
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