WATCH LIVE - #TheNewsProjectLive - A National Discussion of the Future of For-Profit Local Media

WATCH LIVE - #TheNewsProjectLive - A National Discussion of the Future of For-Profit Local Media

Watch #TheNewsProjectLive (Thursday at 6 pm ET) as it will feature a conversation with Josh Fenton, Founder of GoLocal24 and Michael Shapiro, CEO and Publisher of Tapinto.net.

The theme this week: Making it with a Local News Startup - The for-profit model at work. 

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WATCH on YouTube HERE at 6 PM

TNP’s Merrill Brown (CEO) and Alex Leo (Head of Audience), lead this weekly conversation with media industry experts and innovators about the future of news and news business models.

Previously, appearing in this national series have been CNN's Brian Stelter and Goli Sheikholeslami, President and CEO of New York Public Radio (WNYC).

Providence, Rhode Island-based GoLocal24 operates GoLocalProv.com and GoLocalWorcester.com providing readers in those two communities with news, weather, sports, politics, and entertainment coverage using more than 50 contributors as well as commentary from local writers and policy experts. GoLocalProv is 10 years old and provides daily video news coverage for the region as well.

Michael Shapiro is the CEO and Publisher of TAPinto.net, a network of more than 70 franchised online local newspapers in New Jersey, New York and Florida with more than 7 million readers. In October 2008, after five years of practicing law in New York City, Shapiro started an online, objective, local daily newspaper for his town, New Providence, as well as the adjoining towns of Summit and Berkeley Heights. He began franchising sites in December 2013 to people who wanted to start online newspapers in their own towns.

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