In Georgia, heart disease is the leading cause of death, obesity is common, and the infant mortality rate is among the highest in the nation. With an increasingly older population, it ranks near the bottom in terms of senior care, and low financial literacy continues to result in higher than average poverty rates.
While we all agree that these issues are symptomatic of larger national problems, rather than focusing on macro-level coverage and reporting, our mission is to assist journalists in supplying citizens with information to help them navigate current life circumstances.
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Local Reporting Initiative
two centuries of success with newsprint dailies. In terms of an economically sustainable
take the most successful components and re-imagine it into a forward thinking digital news undertaking.
Today, when preparing a program for broadcast, it's important for us to understand that we may directly or indirectly be competing with social media, dramatizational television, pundit misinformation, as well as the views and opinions of peers and social circles. To proceed, we analyze the local information ecosystem to get a full picture of various sources of information and how the communal population is responding to it. Ultimately, this informs the tone and direction of our presentations. We try to match programs with related local sponsorship, this allows us to offer production support to independent journalists with the goal of producing "Quality of Life" programs.
community engagement business model, it is the best that we’ve come across. Our goal is to
We're not trying to reinvent the wheel. But we are examining the various aspects of more than